Welcome to Children and Grief" presentation!
Speaker: Kris Ford
“Anyone old enough to love is old enough to grieve.” – Mr. Rogers
Kris Ford is a retired grief and trauma therapist with over 30 years of experience working with children and adults in grief counseling. Her passion for this work is fueled by her own experiences of loss as a child and as an adult. She believes in the transformative power of a healthy grief process. She served as the Director of Programs for Bo’s Place, the children’s bereavement center in Houston, and founded “My Healing Place,” a child and family grief center in Austin, TX. Shis is currently developing “My Healing Place at St. Francis” in Cary. Support groups for adults who have experienced the death of a loved one are presently meeting twice a month at St Francis UMC. Children’s groups will start as soon as there are enough children to form a viable group.
Presentation Objectives:
- Gain a better understanding of children’s grief.
- Gain specific tools for working with the grieving child.
Topics to be covered:
- Basic assumptions about grief.
- Unique aspects of children’s grief.
- Children’s grief from a developmental perspective.
- Children’s grief from a family dynamics perspective.
- 3 tasks of grieving for children.
- Therapeutic interventions for grieving children.
Time is allowed for questions & answers at the end of the presentation.
If you sign up to attend online, you will receive the Zoom Webinar link 24 hours before the start of the event.
Whether you are a parent, grandparent, caregiver, friend, of ally of a person struggling with a mental health crisis, this event is sure to provide valuable knowledge to help you help them on their journey to mental wellness.
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