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Supporting children when a family member has a serious illness
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A terminal diagnosis in a family will have emotional and practical implications for a child. This module helps to prepare you to provide effective support to children, young people and their families before their loved one has died, enabling them…
Find out more »Introduction: Working with Bereaved Children and Young People
We recommend this course before progressing to any of the further modules. It is designed to provide an understanding of how grief affects children at different developmental stages, introduces some key theories of grief, explores the role of attachment and…
Find out more »Workshop: Practical ways to help a grieving child
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We strongly recommend our Introduction course prior to attending this workshop. Adolescents and children often find emotions difficult to verbalise, particularly the overwhelming range of feelings they experience following a bereavement. Sharing practical activities can enable you to build a rapport…
Find out more »Supporting children and young people through complicated grief
The term “complicated” refers to factors that interfere with the natural grieving process. Traumatic losses due to accident, murder, manslaughter or suicide, can cause children to get ‘stuck’ in their grief so that it dominates their life instead of receding…
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