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List of forthcoming training events in the areas of child and adolescent trauma, loss and grief

This list is updated regularly. If you have, or know of, a conference you think should be included here, please let us know. 

Please click on the relevant event to be directed to the training organisation and to access further information. This list is updated regularly. If you have, or know of, a relevant training event that is taking place that you think should be included here, please let us know.

NSW - VIC - ACT - QLD - SA - NT - WA - TAS 


 

New South Wales

Working with bereaved children

Bereavement Care Centre, Sydney, 8-13 November 2010.

  • To prepare care giving adults to help children understand death as a part of life
  • To help care giving adults increase their skills in facilitating age appropriate expressions of grief in children who have someone close to them die
  • To increase the confidence of course participants in extrapolating from bereavement focused concepts and skills in order to facilitate children's grief resulting from other losses

  


 

Victoria 

 

Supporting the bereaved child

Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement, Traralgon, 5 November, 2009.

The experience of grieving children and effective support strategies will be explored in this seminar.


Working with families and grief

Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement, Clayton, 10 November, 2009.

This workshop will explore the impact of grief on the family unit. It will look at how age, experience and family culture affect how individuals grieve.

 

Groupwise

Australian Childhood Foundation, Melbourne, 16 November 2009.

Structuring effective and sustainable therapeutic groups for children who have experienced abuse related trauma.

 

Supporting the bereaved child

Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement, Bendigo, 19 November, 2009.

The experience of grieving children and effective support strategies will be explored in this seminar.

 

Educating for resilience in children

National Association for Loss and Grief (NALAG), Melbourne, 9 December, 2009.

 


 

ACT

Managing trauma in children and adolescents living through natural disaster: Clinical, research and policy advances

Australian Society for Psychiatric Research, Canberra, 1 December 2009.

Participants will learn about effective approaches to managing trauma  and other mental health issues in children and adolescents who have been exposed to natural disaster, as well as relevant current national policy.

 

 


 

Queensland

Tracing traumatic loss

Australian Childhood Foundation, Brisbane, 18 November 2009.

Considering a framework for understanding children's experience of loss in the context of abuse or violence.

 

Understanding early trauma: The implications of child abuse and neglect

Professor Louise Newman, Cairns, 20 November, 2009.

This workshop will review current evidence about the developmental effect of trauma and the crucial developmental tasks of infancy and early childhood.

 


 

South Australia

 


 

Northern Territory

 


 

Western Australia

Tracing traumatic loss

Australian Childhood Foundation, Perth, 29 October 2009.

Considering a framework for understanding children's experience of loss in the context of abuse or violence.

 

The silent voice of trauma

Australian Childhood Foundation, Perth, 30 October, 2009.

Understanding and supporting children who access dissociative response patterns to express their experiences of abuse.

 

Delving into the inside of complex trauma

Australian Childhood Foundation, Perth, 13 November 2009.

Developing an advanced knowledge of the brain and body responses of children and young people to the experiences of violence.  


 

Tasmania