Grief in Children and Teens

1. Understand Developmental Perspectives: Develop a comprehensive understanding of how grief manifests at different developmental stages, from early childhood through adolescence.

2. Equip with Kid Grief Strategies: Provide clinicians with age-appropriate strategies and interventions for working with children experiencing grief, considering their cognitive and emotional development.

3. Address Teen Grief: Equip clinicians with tools to support teenagers in grief, acknowledging their unique developmental challenges and the complexities of adolescent bereavement.

4. Increase clinicians’ understanding of how grief shapes relationships and identity within foster family systems.

5. Strengthen clinicians’ capacity to provide trauma- and grief-informed care that fosters stability, connection, and healing.

1. Developmental Differences: Identify how grief is experienced and expressed differently by children of various ages and developmental stages.

2. Kid Grief Interventions: Identify specific interventions tailored to support young children in grief, using strategies that align with their understanding and expression of loss.

3. Navigate Teen Grief Dynamics: Understand the unique aspects of teen grief, including the role of identity, peer relationships, and emerging independence, and provide age-appropriate support.

4. Family Grief Counseling: Identify techniques for effective family grief counseling, helping each family member understand and support each other while navigating their own grief.

5. Identify the layered and ongoing forms of grief experienced by foster children, biological parents, and foster caregivers.

6. Apply grief-informed, family-centered strategies that support attachment, emotional safety, and meaning-making within foster families.

7. Enhance clinicians’ skills in facilitating conversations about loss, identity, and belonging with foster children and families.

Grief Across the Ages covers the full developmental span from birth through young adulthood. Content is organized by developmental stage so you'll come away with a clear understanding of how grief looks and feels at each stage, and how to tailor your support accordingly.

Yes. The training includes focused content on the unique grief experiences of foster children, biological parents, and foster caregivers, including how loss, identity, and belonging show up within foster family systems.

Yes. Grief Across the Ages addresses how children and teens on the autism spectrum experience and express grief, and offers strategies for supporting neurodivergent young people through loss in ways that are responsive to their needs.

Yes, the recording will be sent out in the email with access to the course for those who register on September 12th.