A New Kind of Normal: Caring for Dying Children and Supporting Their Families for Years to
Join PACT Grief Support Coordinator Norah Shaughnessy MSW, as she defines paediatric palliative care and explores the role of the interdisciplinary team in providing psychosocial support to children, youth and their families. Attendees will learn about; -the many faces of grief -practical ways to su...
Supporting Children and Youth who are Grieving a Death
The death of a significant person represents one of the most powerful disruptions in all aspects of a child or youth’s emotional existence. Yet few people, including professionals in the field of mental health, medicine, or education, receive formal training on how to support children and yout...
Deepening the Therapeutic Approach through Bibliotherapy and Expressive Arts
Shani Thornton is a Certified Child Life Specialist and a full-time mom of two boys. She provides child life services through her private practice, in Northern California, serving the Sacramento region She supports families coping with life’s challenges of illness, loss, trauma, and tran...
Child Life Strategies for Supporting Autistic Children and Youth
Presenter; Laura Breau M.A., CCLS, CIMI-2 Imagine Child Life Services https://imaginechildlife.com/
Creating a Psychologically Safe Space
Child Life Specialists are navigating the physical, emotional and spiritual affects of the cumulative care taking trauma experienced during a global pandemic and humanitarian crisis. Creating a Psychologically Safe Space will discuss; -Emotional regulation versus emotional repression -I...
Addiction: Our Community’s opportunity to heal a family’s inherited stigma
Agnes Chen is a registered nurse, social justice advocate, and the founder of Starlings Community, a not-for-profit co-creating a community committed to the healing of individuals impacted by the stress and stigma of a parent's substance use. Marrying her lived and professional experiences...
Compassion fatigue: A Strengths Based Approach to Child Life Practice Presented by Korie L
Join Korie Leigh PHD, CCLS, CT as she walks us through compassion fatigue and its affect of Child Life Specialists.
Thriving Personally and Professionally; 2022 Life Review
We are almost 1/4 through the year, where are you with your goals and intentions for the year? To succeed professionally it is equally important to reflect and evaluate how on track we are with our personal 2022 resolutions and intentions. Because the reality is, when we thrive personally, we ...
Supporting Siblings After Pregnancy and Infant Loss
The end of a pregnancy or death of a baby is a very sad and difficult time for adults that can be made more sad and difficult when they are responsible for supporting children in their own grief. Families may have many questions about how to talk about pregnancy and infant loss with their children, ...
Infant Mental Health Part 2: A Closer Look
This webinar continues to explore infant mental health and builds on the content of the previous webinar Keeping the Babies in Mind. After a quick review of basic infant mental health principles, the webinar will provide an overview of the development and screening of social and emotional developmen...
Never Enough Time; Grief and Relationships Before and After a Death.
Grief is a natural human reaction to loss and although it is often associated with bereavement, grief is also felt deeply across the trajectory of illness, whether it is likely curable or fatal. Rather than distinguishing between “anticipatory grief” and grief following a death, in this ...
Helping Grieving Families through Ritual and Continuing Bonds
In 1996, Klass, Silverman, and Nickman shed light on an important bereavement concept in the book Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief. Their work questioning linear models of grief that are supposed to lead to things like acceptance, detachment, and new life suggested a paradigm in which i...