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SUMMARY:Certification Course: The Ultimate Grief Treatment Toolbox – Free Training with Erica Sirrine
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFree Conscious Business Event\nGrief touches every life, which means loss can be part of a client’s story regardless of what first brings them into care.\nCertification Course: The Ultimate Grief Treatment Toolbox brings together more than 60 practical interventions for clinicians supporting grieving children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Erica Sirrine shares tools and strategies for helping clients mourn, make meaning, and move toward hope while honoring the complexity of each loss.\nThe training explores grief assessment, anticipatory grief, therapeutic games, art, writing and music, remembrance rituals, family activities, and support groups. Step-by-step instruction is designed to help clinicians understand how these approaches can be used across the lifespan in individual and group work.\nYou’ll also examine the differences between grief and mourning, factors that influence the mourning process, secondary and non-death losses, continuing bonds, and important considerations when working with grieving children and adolescents.\n\nRegister Here For Free\nOver 60 interventions for supporting grieving children, adolescents, and adults.\n\n\n\nExplore This Free Event\nJump directly to the section that interests you.\n\n→Why Attend\n→Who Should Attend\n→What You’ll Learn\n→Event Schedule\n→About Your Host\n→Free Gifts for Attendees\n→Frequently Asked Questions\n\nRegister Here For Free→\n\n\nPractical Tools for Grief Care\nWhy Attend “Certification Course: The Ultimate Grief Treatment Toolbox”\n\nLoss can affect a client’s sense of identity, relationships, expectations, and understanding of the world. Supporting that experience requires more than a single technique or a rigid idea of what grief should look like.\nDr. Erica Sirrine presents more than 60 interventions drawn from approaches that include narrative work, remembrance rituals, meaning-making activities, therapeutic games, creative expression, and family-based strategies. The training addresses losses connected with loved ones, relationships, employment, health, and hoped-for futures.\nThe emphasis is on practical clinical education. You’ll explore assessment considerations alongside concrete interventions that can help you respond more thoughtfully to grief across different ages, circumstances, and treatment settings.\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nFor Professionals Supporting Grieving Clients\nWho Should Attend\nThis training is designed for helping professionals who work with grief, bereavement, illness, death, and other forms of loss. The material addresses children, adolescents, adults, families, individual clients, and groups.\nIt may be especially useful for professionals who want a broader range of assessment considerations and practical interventions for supporting clients when grief is difficult to express in words.\n\nSocial workers\nCounselors\nPsychologists\nChaplains and clergy\nMarriage and family therapists\nNurses\nThanatologists\nCase managers\nPhysicians\nOther mental health professionals\nChild life specialists\n\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nAssessment + More Than 60 Interventions\nWhat You’ll Learn\nYou’ll begin by examining foundational distinctions in grief care, including grief versus mourning, depression and bereavement, secondary losses, non-death losses, and common misconceptions about the mourning process.\nThe training then explores assessment considerations such as grief and coping models, continuing bonds, the loss line assessment tool, factors that influence mourning, and distinctions among normal, complicated, and prolonged grief.\nYou’ll also explore practical ways to support clients when talking is difficult, with interventions using games, art, writing, music, memorialization, family activities, and group-based approaches.\nHere’s just a little bit of what you’ll learn:\n\nHow grief and mourning differ, and why the distinction matters in clinical work\nAssessment considerations for secondary losses, non-death losses, continuing bonds, and coping\nHow children, adolescents, and adults may experience and express grief differently\nWays to recognize signs of concern and better understand grief-related behaviors in younger clients\nStrategies for supporting anticipatory grief and preparing children and adults for death-related experiences\nTherapeutic games and activities for preschoolers, youth, adults, and groups\nArt-based interventions including memory projects, support circles, photography, clay, and other creative approaches\nWriting, poetry, music, journaling, letter writing, and remembrance-based interventions\nMemorialization rituals and interactive activities for families experiencing loss\nConsiderations for grief support groups, family involvement, and session topics across age groups\n\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nFrom Assessment to Practical Intervention\nEvent Schedule\nThe course progresses from foundational grief concepts and assessment considerations into a broad collection of creative and practical interventions for clients across the lifespan.\nTopics include both death and non-death losses, anticipatory grief, age-specific considerations, family work, memorialization, and approaches for individual and group settings.\nThe training is organized to connect clinical understanding with concrete techniques that can be adapted to the needs of grieving clients.\n\n\nFoundations & Assessment\n\nTypes of Grief & Their Implications for TreatmentGrief and mourning, depression and bereavement, secondary losses, non-death losses, misconceptions, and research considerations\nAssessment Considerations for Grieving ClientsGrief and coping models, influences on mourning, continuing bonds, the loss line, and grief-related diagnostic considerations\nGrief & Loss in Children and AdolescentsDevelopmental differences, behavior meanings, common questions after a death, and signs of concern\nAnticipatory GriefSupporting the dying process, healthy mourning, memorialization, death education, and practical preparation\n\n\n\nInterventions & Strategies\n\nTherapeutic GamesPlay-based, discussion-based, physical, and group-sharing activities for different ages\nArt InterventionsCreative approaches including memory projects, support circles, clay, photography, and visual expression\nPoetry, Writing & MusicBibliotherapy, journaling, poetry, letter writing, remembrance music, and related activities\nMemorialization RitualsActivities designed to support remembrance and continuing bonds\nFamily & Group ApproachesInteractive family activities, grief groups, family involvement, and curriculum considerations\n\n\n\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nMeet Your Expert Grief Trainer\nAbout Dr. Erica Sirrine\nDr. Erica Sirrine is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 25 years of experience in death, dying, and bereavement. She earned a PhD in social work and holds the distinction of Fellow in Thanatology through the Association for Death Education and Counseling.\nHer work includes research on grief and bereavement as well as extensive experience providing individual and group therapy to children, adolescents, adults, and families experiencing illness and loss. She has developed interventions and programs focused on the emotional health of people navigating these experiences.\nDr. Sirrine serves as director of social work at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and frequently presents educational seminars on bereavement and loss. She is also the author of Sammy’s Story, an anticipatory grief counseling book for young children experiencing the serious illness of a parent.\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nResources Included With Registration\nFree Gifts for Attendees\n\n\nComplete Course Materials\n\nThe complete set of course materials is included with free registration\nMaterials support the grief concepts, assessments, and interventions covered in the training\nResources address clinical work with children, adolescents, adults, families, and groups\n\n\n\nInteractive Learning Opportunities\n\nInteractive question-and-answer opportunities are included\nParticipants have opportunities to connect with professional colleagues\nThe training combines expert instruction with practical clinical applications\n\n\n\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nEverything You Need to Know\nFrequently Asked Questions\nSelect any question below to reveal the answer.\nEvent Details\n\nIs this training really free?\nYes. Registration for the grief training is free. Continuing education credit and professional certification are available through an optional paid upgrade.\n\n\nWho is Dr. Erica Sirrine?\nDr. Erica Sirrine is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 25 years of experience in death, dying, and bereavement. She holds a PhD in social work, is a Fellow in Thanatology, and serves as director of social work at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.\n\n\nWhat will I learn during this training?\nThe course covers grief and mourning, assessment considerations, grief in children and adolescents, anticipatory grief, and more than 60 interventions involving therapeutic games, art, writing, music, memorialization, family activities, and support groups.\n\n\nWho is this training designed for?\nThe program is designed for social workers, counselors, psychologists, chaplains and clergy, marriage and family therapists, nurses, thanatologists, case managers, physicians, other mental health professionals, and child life specialists.\n\n\nCan I earn continuing education credit?\nAn optional paid upgrade provides an opportunity to earn up to 6.25 continuing education hours. Eligibility and credit requirements are provided as part of the upgrade information.\n\n\nCan I become a Certified Grief Informed Professional?\nAn optional paid upgrade includes an opportunity to become a Certified Grief Informed Professional through Evergreen Certifications. Professional and clinical experience standards apply.\n\n\nAre course materials included?\nYes. Free registration includes the complete set of course materials associated with the training.\n\nGrief Assessment & Clinical Interventions\n\nDoes the course address grief in children and adolescents?\nYes. The training examines how children, adolescents, and adults may cope differently, developmental considerations for different age groups, common questions following a death, behavioral meanings, and signs of concern.\n\n\nDoes the training cover anticipatory grief?\nYes. The course includes strategies for normalizing the dying process and grief experience, supporting healthy mourning, identifying opportunities for memorialization, providing death education and practical support, and preparing children and adults for funeral-related experiences.\n\n\nWhat kinds of interventions are included?\nThe training includes more than 60 interventions spanning therapeutic games, art, bibliotherapy, journaling, poetry, letter writing, music, memorialization rituals, family activities, and grief support groups.\n\n\nDoes the course address non-death losses?\nYes. The course addresses non-death losses and secondary losses in addition to bereavement following a death.\n\n\nDoes the course cover group and family work?\nYes. The training includes interactive family activities, family involvement considerations, grief support groups for different age groups, grief camps for children, and curriculum or session topics that can also inform individual work.\n\n\nAre there interactive elements?\nYes. The training includes interactive question-and-answer opportunities and opportunities to connect with professional colleagues.\n\n\n\n\n\nBusiness Education Disclosure\nThe contents of this website/e-mail and this event are for general informational and educational purposes only. They are not legal, tax, accounting, financial, employment, compliance, clinical, or other professional advice. Consult appropriately qualified professionals about decisions specific to your practice, jurisdiction, clients, and circumstances.\n\n\nRelationship Disclosure\nWe are grateful to be of service and bring you these life-changing events free of charge. 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