About the Author |
| James A. Fogarty, EdD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified school psychologist, author and national lecturer who practices in Wisconsin and Illinois. He is President of Fogarty Consulting Firm, Inc., which offers counseling services, consulting services, psychological and psycho-educational assessment, and seminar and keynote presentations. He has been assisting grieving children and families for over 22 years. He has counseled children and offered consultation services in private practice, psychiatric hospitals, prison systems, education facilities, truancy programs, alternative educational programs, and peer group support programs. |
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Summary
5 hours CE
James Fogarty, Ed.D.
This course assists counselors and clinicians working with children who have experienced the death of a loved one, divorce, and other types of losses. The unique magical thought model helps explain children’s attempt to make sense of loss, based on their incomplete cognitive equipment. The model also describes how children’s grief-related magical thoughts can progress into defense mechanisms and personality disorders in later life. Understanding the concept of magical thought will assist the therapist to define grieving children’s clinical issues by uncovering their inaccurate and distorted magical thinking. This course offers many practical therapeutic techniques, based on the model, to help children effectively deal with complicated grief.
Learning Objectives
- understand how children’s five grief emotions function to keep them in a healthy grief process
- describe children’s cognitive reaction to loss, based on various developmental stages
- explain how complicated mourning is related to various personality disorders
- gain an understanding of the magical thought model, as it relates to children’s complicated grief; cognitive distortions; defense mechanisms; and personality disorders
- describe the five healthy tasks of grief
understand six ways to use action focused techniques in counseling with children who experience loss.
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
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