To provide a basic understanding of working effectively with students experiencing change and loss.  Topics covered will include:  

• what is grief and loss
• death concerns of children and adolescents
• the stages of grief
• development of the understanding of death in  children
• children and grief
• grieving behaviours in the classroom
• classroom strategies to deal with grief
• helping a grieving child in the classroom
• discussion about the concept of death           
• discussion about various attitudes and beliefs about death