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This course recognizes a multitude of loss and grief issues faced by children in a contemporary world. Students gain an understanding of children's complicated grief issues including suicide, homicide, AIDS, violence, abuse, bullying, terrorism, and trauma. Through the use of case studies, students learn how to utilize specific clinical techniques when working with children experiencing traumatic loss. Participants gain an awareness of normal grief responses in children, tasks of grief, myths of grief, and techniques useful in helping children grieve. Students learn practical ways to respond to children's grief reactions and questions and learn grief resolution techniques to work with children in educational and counseling situations. They also learn how to recognize behaviors that signal loss and how to identify at-risk and traumatized children.