Creative Interventions For Bereaved Children & Children of Divorce

CREATIVE INTERVENTIONS FOR BEREAVED CHILDREN AND CHILDREN OF DIVORCE

By Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S

What:   Workshop for mental health & related service providers

When:   Thursday, March 17, 2011

               Registration at 7:30 am; Presentation from 8:00am to 3:00pm

Where:  Room 450, Haverling High School

Cost:     Free of charge Registration forms due by March 4.

Workshop description:This dynamic workshop will present an innovative model for working with school-aged bereaved children and children of divorce. Structured assessment and treatment techniques will be illustrated for use in individual, group, and family therapy. Participants will come away with many innovative techniques. Although the focus will be on loss, interventions can be adapted for use with a variety of other populations. Learning Objectives: 1.) Define grief, traumatic grief, and disenfranchised grief; 2.) Articulate the continuum of parent-child relationships after separation and divorce; 3.) Identify factors that mediate the child’s experience of loss; 4.) Implement a step-by-step model for assessing bereaved children and children of divorce.

This workshop is paid for by the Bath CSD/Steuben County Grant for the Integration of Schools and Mental Health Systems.

Registration Form: Due March 4, 2011

Please register by contacting Pamela Paine at grantfeedback@co.steuben.ny.us