Strategies for unexpected grief and trauma
Strategies for unexpected grief and trauma
Grief trainings are an essential part of preparing for unexpected death or trauma. Trainings provide school administrators and mental health professionals with the skills to foster resiliency and create a safe and supportive school environment. Administration and counselors can learn and be confident in their skills to provide immediate and effective responses, minimizing chaos and emotional distress during crises.
School administrators often report feeling unprepared for the diverse set of grief and trauma scenarios that can take plan among students, staff, and parents in the school. Training equips you with the skills to assess and ready your school for the unexpected. It also provides you with the knowledge to initiate crisis intervention strategies needed to foster long-term recovery and resilience. Using this comprehensive approach, your school community will be ready to respond with the care and support needed to heal and thrive should a traumatic event occur.
The TGS immersive, one-day administration resiliency intensive is designed to prepare your school to address the emotional and logistical challenges that accompany unexpected loss and trauma in the school. Through an experiential training, your school administration will acquire crucial skills and knowledge to prepare for unforeseen tragedies to guide students, parents, staff and teachers through an emotionally difficult time.
Training objectives include:
Upon completion of the TGS Administration Resiliency Intensive, your team will gain a comprehensive new skill set and an enhanced level of confidence to support your school in the event of an unexpected crisis or trauma.
The TGS mental health specialty training for school counselors and ancillary mental health professionals equips counselors to work with students on all aspects of student grief. Training topics include understanding grief by developmental age, grief within family and cultural systems, how grief impacts student learning, and how it differs by relationships and cause of death. Participants will learn grief assessment techniques and interventions that can be used when working one on one with a student, in groups, or after a school wide loss.
Grief in the Classroom: Training Objectives
Trainings can be in be in done virtually or in person and can be used to meet continued education meets of most mental health professionals.
