The Epidemic of Grief: Innovative Tools for Grieving Children & Their Families
- Speaker:
- Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 20 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Jan 24, 2024
- Product Code:
- POS059723
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Join award-winning author and international speaker Liana Lowenstein, as she equips you with the knowledge and tools needed to work effectively with grieving children, teens, and families.
You will learn up-to-date grief theory, an innovative model for assessing bereaved children, and a variety of creative techniques to address typical and traumatic grief. Discover engaging interventions to help children bereaved by suicide, homicide, mass violence, military casualties, natural disasters, traumatic separation, and other types of loss.
Watch the creative interventions come to life through demonstrations and actual client sessions. A must-see session!
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Speaker
Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S Related seminars and products
Liana Lowenstein is a licensed clinical social worker, certified play therapist-supervisor, and certified TF-CBT therapist who has been working with children and their families in Toronto for over 35 years. Her areas of specialty include treating trauma, bereavement, divorce, anxiety, and ADHD. She integrates play therapy into evidence-based models such as CBT and TF-CBT. In addition to her clinical practice, she provides supervision and consultation to mental health professionals. Liana’s 14 books are used by mental health professionals and children’s support workers all over the world, and several have been translated into Chinese, Korean, and Turkish. Her best-selling titles include Creative Interventions for Bereaved, Creative Interventions for Children of Divorce, Creative CBT Interventions for Children with Anxiety, and Cory Helps Kids Cope with Sexual Abuse. Her latest book, Cory Helps Kids Cope with Grief: Playful Activities for Young Children, helps young grievers impacted by suicide, homicide, drug overdose, natural disasters, mass violence, war, military casualties, and other types of loss.
Liana is a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences and agency training events, and has provided workshops throughout North America and abroad, including China, South Africa, Israel, England, New Zealand, Australia, and Slovenia. Liana has trained mental health professionals and grief group facilitators on innovative ways of supporting bereaved children, including presentations at the ADEC through the Learning Institute at the Sick Kids Centre for Community Mental Health.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Liana Lowenstein maintains a private practice and receives compensation as a consultant. She receives royalties as a published author. Liana Lowenstein receives a speaking honorarium, book, and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Liana Lowenstein is a member of the Ontario Association of Social Workers, the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, the Canadian Association for Child and Play Therapy, and the Association for Play Therapy.
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Objectives
- Explain the key differences between typical and traumatic grief.
- Explain the tenets of grief-informed practice.
- Implement an innovative model for assessing bereaved children and teens.
- Describe the unique treatment issues of children coping with suicide, homicide and substance-related death.
- Apply a variety of innovative and engaging activities to help bereaved children, teens, and families.
- Utilize techniques for opening communication in the family regarding the death.
Outline
Up-To-Date Grief Theory and Foundational Knowledge- Key definitions: Grief, disenfranchised grief, prolonged grief disorder, traumatic grief
- Differences between typical and traumatic grief
- Factors that impact children’s grief reactions
- Children’s concept of death at different ages and stages
- The tenets of grief informed practice
- Areas to assess
- Innovative model for assessing the unique needs of bereaved children and their families
- Therapeutic games, art, and stories to help bereaved children open up, learn healthy coping tools, express sadness, resolve guilt, commemorate the deceased, manage grief bursts
- Family play therapy interventions to open communication between children and their caregivers
- Equip caregivers with sensitive and age-appropriate ways to talk with children about tough issues such as suicide, homicide, and drug overdose
- Unique activities to address the toughest situations: Suicide, homicide, mass violence, military casualties, natural disasters, and other types of loss
- Evidence-based treatment for traumatic grief
Target Audience
- Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Professionals
- Case Managers
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- School Administrators
- Social Workers
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