Healthcare Training Institute - Quality Education since 1979
CE for Psychologist, Social Worker, Counselor, & MFT!!

Course Learning Objectives/Outcomes

By the end of the course, the Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist will be able to:
-Name four ways parents can talk with children about death.
-List three ways on how grief reflects in children.
-Explain three phases of adolescent grief.
-Name six features of filicide.
-Name first of five challenges a grieving child may experience.
-Name second and third challenges of a grieving child.
-Name fourth and fifth challenges of a grieving child.
-Identify six risk factors of complicated grief.
-List six symptoms of complicated grief.
-Identify three techniques of parent-child communication regarding suicide and murder.
-Explain five coping strategies that can be used by stepfamilies with grieving children.
-Name the five points regarding terminally ill
-List first four concepts regarding a child's perception of death.
-Identify three more concepts in relation to a child's perception of death.
-Explain which of the three concepts of death do children have the most difficulty understanding. 
-Explain why is it important to avoid using clichés associated with grieving when speaking to a child about death. 
-Explain what adult in a child’s life is often most aware of the child’s pain. 
-Explain under what circumstances might a parent consider seeking a professional for their grieving child. 
-Explain what will cause a grieving child to need continual validation of his or her own thoughts, at approximately 7 to 11 years of age.
-Name five core issues must be addressed for a mental health professional to organize an adolescent’s adjustment to loss. 
-Explain why does the loss of a maternal relationship cause daughters to experience greater levels of grief than sons. 
-Explain what are some benefits derived from the daughter carrying out tasks previously undertaken by the deceased mother.
-Explain disenfranchised grief.
-Name three factors construct a personal stamp or certain point of view on understanding death for adolescents. 
-Name one of the most damaging things that can be done with a grieving child.
-Name Worden's four tasks of mourning. 


"The instructional level of this course is introductory, intermediate, or advanced depending on the learners clinical area of expertise."