• 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. Welcome

    2. Thinkific Orientation

    3. Practice Activity Packet

    4. Introduction

    5. More about the Presenters

    6. Learning Objectives

    7. How Our Stories Affect Us

    8. Writing Activity

    9. Why is Support Necessary?

    10. How Do You Define Loss?

    11. Definitions of Loss

    12. Framework

    13. Welcome and Course Overview Quiz

    1. Rational Introduction

    2. I Don't Know How!

    3. Other Types of Losses

    4. Self-Awareness

    5. Honoring Spiritual Perspective

    6. Preparing Children for the Death of a Loved One

    7. H.A.L.T.

    8. C.V.L.R.

    9. Roleplay: C.V.L.R.

    10. Rational Check-In

    11. Should I Tell the Child?

    12. Should I Tell the Child their Loved One is Dying?

    13. Roleplay: Should I tell the Child?

    14. Developing a Plan

    15. Roleplay: Developing a Plan

    16. Parent Interview: Telling My Children

    17. Parent Interview: Telling My Child

    18. Conversation Starters

    19. Using Books as Conversation Starters

    20. Rational: When Death Occurs

    21. Parent Interview One: Rational

    22. Parent Interview Two: Rational

    23. Rational Review Quiz

    1. Emotional Introduction

    2. Importance of Parent's Coping

    3. Parent Interview: Coping

    4. Exercise

    5. Intuitive and Instrumental

    6. Intuitive Activity Guide: Feelings Mask

    7. Intuitive Activity Guide: Feelings Garden

    8. Intuitive Activity Guide: Slam Wall

    9. Instrumental Activity Guide: Homemade Fidget

    10. Instrumental Activity Guide: Rock Garden

    11. Instrumental Activity Guide: Parent's Favorites Lists

    12. Intuitive and Instrumental Recap

    13. Children's Responses to Grief

    14. Parent Interview: Children's Responses to Grief

    15. Plan for Unexpected Waves of Emotion

    16. Parent Interview: Emotional

    17. Emotional Review Quiz

    1. Identity Introduction

    2. Identity within the Framework of Grief

    3. Healthy Responses to Loss

    4. Building Resiliency

    5. Parent Interview: Resiliency

    6. Parent Interview One: Identity

    7. Parent Interview Two: Identity

    8. Parent Interview Three: Identity

    9. Identity Review Quiz

    1. Conclusion

    2. Additional Resources

    3. References

    4. Course Evaluation

About this course

  • $100.00
  • 66 lessons
  • 2.5 hours of video content