CLPPC 705 / Grief, Loss, and Bereavement in Childhood and Adolescence

3 unit(s)

This is a required course for Stream 1 learners, and runs for 14 weeks in the Winter Term. This course will explore children’s and adolescent’s experiences of loss, grief and bereavement including complicating factors as well as sources of support and resilience. Topics to be addressed include loss through separation and divorce, illness, hospitalization and/or death of a caregiver or sibling, and communicating with the terminally ill child. Tools, techniques and coping strategies in supporting children and youth within the context of family-centered care will be explored. This course is offered online. One real-time interactive online session is also required.

Students from other graduate programs can be accepted into this course with permission of the course instructor.