June Workshop: Clinical Approaches to Working With Child and Adolescent Grief

4 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

​The Childhood Bereavement Estimation Model indicates that approximately 6 million American children and adolescents (1 in 12, or 8%) will experience the death of a parent or sibling by the age of 18.  This workshop explores clinical approaches to working with child and adolescent grief.  Content includes symptoms of childhood grief, developmental differences in processing grief, and grief’s recursive nature.  Participants will learn how to understand the patient’s verbal, emotional, and unconscious communications and to utilize induced feelings and countertransference data to formulate interventions.

Diane H. Tracey, EdD, is a graduate of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS), where she is a research advisor and a training analyst.  She also treats children, adolescents, and adults in private practice in Manhattan.  Prior to pursuing a second career as a psychoanalyst, she was Professor of Education for 25 years.  She is author of Lenses on Reading: An Introduction to Theories and Models, 4th edition (2024) and Helping Your Child Overcome Reading Challenges (2022).

Learning Objectives:  Participants will be able to (1) describe foundational concepts associated with childhood and adolescent grief, including symptoms of grief, developmental differences in processing grief, and grief’s recursive nature, (2) describe clinical approaches to working with children's verbal and emotional communication of grief, including joining and mirroring, (3) describe how to listen to unconscious communications that convey the underlying meaning of grief, and (4) describe the use of countertransference data in formulating interventions geared toward working through grief.

Fees:  Practitioners:  $80  |  Students:  Free

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