When Loss Comes Early: Supporting Grief Across Every Phase from Childhood to Young Adulthood

Live on Zoom: Friday, October 23rd from 9am-1 pm PST

Self-paced with Recording: Access sent via email October 24th

4 CE Hours with Certificate of Completion

$175 or $125 for students, associates, and those who are pre-licensed*

*Must email us with proof to receive a discount code

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Children and teens grieve, but not the way adults do. When Loss Comes Early: Supporting Grief Across Every Phase from Childhood to Young Adulthood gives therapists a developmental roadmap for understanding and supporting young clients through loss: from the toddler who doesn't yet have words for death to the teenager navigating grief alongside identity, peers, and growing independence. Through this training, you'll gain age-appropriate interventions, frameworks for family grief work, and specialized tools for supporting foster children and families carrying layered, complex loss.

Available as a live Zoom training or self-paced with a video so you can learn in the format that works best for you.

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Course Goals:

  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.

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Course Objectives:

  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.

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FAQ

  • When Loss Comes Early 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. When Loss Comes Early 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 via email with access to the course on October 24th.

  • Yes, an certificate awarding 4 CE hours will be emailed to you once you complete the course, pass the quiz, and fill out the course evaluation.

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Live on Zoom or self-paced

  • Zoom: October 23rd at 9am-1pm PT

  • Self-paced: Access sent via email October 24th

CE Hours: 4

Cost: $175 or $125 for students, associates, and those who are pre-licensed or still in school.*

*Email us with proof for the discount code. Please reach out for the discount before purchasing.

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Refund policy: All sales are final. Due to the immediate access granted upon purchase, we do not offer refunds. Please ensure you are committed before completing your purchase. If you have any questions before enrolling, feel free to reach out.

Accommodations: To request accommodations for special needs, please email the Program Administrator at debifrankle@gmail.com

Grievances: To obtain the grievance policy or report a grievance please email debifrankle@gmail.com or call (818) 222-3895

Target Audience: This course is designed for mental health professionals.

Continuing education

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Counselors: Private Practice Grief has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7071. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Private Practice Grief is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

  • Licensed in Another State:Private Practice Grief has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP) #7071, so all of our workshops should satisfy your CE requirements, but please check your state rules regarding live webinars vs. live workshops.

Social Workers: This workshop has been approved for 4 CE hours by the CAMFT (Approval # 134631).

  • Licensed in California: This workshop has been approved for 4 CE hours by the CAMFT (Approval # 134631). Now in California, Live Webinars count the same as a Live In-Person Workshop.

  • Licensed in Another State: Please see the red section below.*

Marriage & Family Therapists:

  • Licensed in California: This workshop has been approved for 4 CE hours by the CAMFT (Approval # 134631) and will count for 4 CE hours for Marriage & Family Therapists Now in California, Live Webinars count the same as a Live In-Person Workshop.

  • Licensed in Another State: Please see the red section below.*

*Licensed in another state as a social worker or marriage & family therapist? Many states will accept CEs for Social Workers & MFTs if that workshop has approved status from another state, which this one has been CAMFT (Approval # 134631). Additionally, we have national approval for all our courses through NBCC. Many states accept NBCC approved workshops, but please check your specific state rules & regulations.