Adolescent and Childhood Grief Part 1: Understanding the Impact
Event Date: 09/10/2024
Event Time: 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Event Type: Live Virtual
Total CE Credits: 1.5
General Admission: $0 CE Cost: $10
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Description
The nature of grief has been mischaracterized in our society. This has caused grieving people’s grief experiences to be marginalized and often dismissed.
This presentation will dispel societal myths related to grief and offer a construct for understanding grief that more accurately reflects the experience of grieving people.
We will focus on the experiences of children and teenagers in foster care. We will look at how grief manifests in their lives and how to recognize the signs that a child or teenager is grieving.
Speaker & Bio
Andy McNiel
Andy McNiel, MA, is an author, trainer, bereavement support professional, and non-profit leader with three decades of experience providing support to bereaved people of all ages. He is the CEO of The Satori Group, LLC, a national non-profit consulting company. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer for The National Alliance for Grieving Children, the Executive Director for The Amelia Center at Children’s of Alabama, and the Director of Grief Counseling Services and Director of Development for Hospice of Martin and St. Lucie (now Treasure Health) in South Florida. In his current work with The Satori Group, Andy serves as Senior Advisor to Youth Programs and Young Adult Programs for the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), Advisor to Programs for HealGrief and Actively Moving Forward, and Consultant and Advisor for The Compassionate Friends. He is the author of Understanding and Supporting Bereaved Children: A Practical Guide for Professionals in addition to numerous chapters related to bereavement support. He is a trainer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He is a member of the International Workgroup on Death, Dying, and Bereavement. Andy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religion and a Master of Arts in Counseling
Itinerary
Learning Objectives:
• Participants will be able to understand how grief manifests in the lives of children and adolescents.
• Participants will be able to recognize mischaracterizations and societal myths about grief and the impact this has on the grieving person.
• Participants will be able to identify signs of grief in adolescents and children and better understand their needs.
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