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HFA's ANNUAL LIVE-VIA-SATELLITE TELECONFERENCE

2008 National Bereavement Teleconference - Living With Grief®: Children and Adolescents
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Please Note: During the broadcast, Kenneth Doka mentioned protocol for assessing grief in children. These are available here.

HFA's 2008 Teleconference focused on the experience of grieving children and adolescents and the ways that hospice professionals, teachers and school administrators, grief counselors, funeral directors, and parents can best support these populations as they cope with loss and grief. The program and newly published book focused on the most current theories and practices in this area, and as always combined academic research with hands-on ideas for use in hospice support groups and other settings.

Sponsored by:

The Foundation for End-of-Life Care

In Cooperation With:
Adventist Communications Network;
Association for Death Education and Counseling;
National Association of Social Workers;
Department of Veterans Affairs Employee Education System;
The Compassionate Friends
Dignity Memorial, Funeral, Cremation, and Cemetery Services

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of the 2008 teleconference, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the situations that might engender grief in children and adolescents as well as the particular ways that grief may be manifested in children and adolescents;
  • Describe and evaluate strategies for work with grieving children and adolescents, including counseling, support groups, expressive and play therapies, school-based programs, and camp-based programs;
  • Discuss three specific advantages of play therapy as a modality with grieving children and describe at least three specific components of play therapy that facilitate the creation of a cohesive narrative in grieving children.
  • Discuss effective strategies to empower parents and other support systems, such as schools and faith communities, to assist grieving children and adolescents; and
  • Describe the unique issues that grieving children and adolescents pose for professional caregivers and offer strategies for effective self-help and professional support.

HFA’s 14th annual National Bereavement Teleconference, Living With Grief®: Before and After the Death, was broadcast on March 22, 2007. This teleconference, as well as the accompanying book, explored the most current theoretical perspectives on loss and grief as experienced by persons throughout a life-limiting illness and by survivors after the death. A particular focus was paid to areas where understandings of grief have been challenged.

View the Resources from the 2007 teleconference.

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