• Intensive online professional development for staff. Complete at your own pace.

  • Over 25 hours of video resources.

  • Wonders & Worries has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7106. Wonders & Worries is solely responsible for all aspects of this program.

  • This continuing education course is for child life specialists, counselors, social workers, school counselors and other mental health professionals.

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What is Included in this Course?

Course Objectives

By completing this online continuing education program, you will be able to gain:

  • Better understanding of loss on a child at different developmental stages

  • Better ways to talk with parents about the importance of communication with children regarding illness and death

  • Ways to break down information into manageable pieces

  • Activities and role-plays, making this information more concrete and tangible for you as the learner and for the parents, children and teens you serve

Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • Welcome

    • Thinkific Orientation

    • Practice Activity Packet

    • Introduction

    • More about the Presenters

    • Learning Objectives

    • How Our Stories Affect Us

    • Writing Activity

    • Why is Support Necessary?

    • How Do You Define Loss?

    • Definitions of Loss

    • Framework

    • Welcome and Course Overview Quiz
  2. 2

    • Rational Introduction

    • I Don't Know How!

    • Other Types of Losses

    • Self-Awareness

    • Honoring Spiritual Perspective

    • Preparing Children for the Death of a Loved One

    • H.A.L.T.

    • C.V.L.R.

    • Roleplay: C.V.L.R.

    • Rational Check-In

    • Should I Tell the Child?

    • Should I Tell the Child their Loved One is Dying?

    • Roleplay: Should I tell the Child?

    • Developing a Plan

    • Roleplay: Developing a Plan

    • Parent Interview: Telling My Children

    • Parent Interview: Telling My Child

    • Conversation Starters

    • Using Books as Conversation Starters

    • Rational: When Death Occurs

    • Parent Interview One: Rational

    • Parent Interview Two: Rational

    • Rational Review Quiz
  3. 3

    • Emotional Introduction

    • Importance of Parent's Coping

    • Parent Interview: Coping

    • Exercise

    • Intuitive and Instrumental

    • Intuitive Activity Guide: Feelings Mask

    • Intuitive Activity Guide: Feelings Garden

    • Intuitive Activity Guide: Slam Wall

    • Instrumental Activity Guide: Homemade Fidget

    • Instrumental Activity Guide: Rock Garden

    • Instrumental Activity Guide: Parent's Favorites Lists

    • Intuitive and Instrumental Recap

    • Children's Responses to Grief

    • Parent Interview: Children's Responses to Grief

    • Plan for Unexpected Waves of Emotion

    • Parent Interview: Emotional

    • Emotional Review Quiz
  4. 4

    • Identity Introduction

    • Identity within the Framework of Grief

    • Healthy Responses to Loss

    • Building Resiliency

    • Parent Interview: Resiliency

    • Parent Interview One: Identity

    • Parent Interview Two: Identity

    • Parent Interview Three: Identity

    • Identity Review Quiz
  5. 5

    • Conclusion

    • Additional Resources

    • References

    • Course Evaluation