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Lisa delivering a Keynote at Kean University
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What School Counselors Need to Know about Grief

Workshops are tailored for your specific needs and audience.

Call Lisa (973) 912-0177,  to plan a presentation or assembly program for your school, business, conference, or organization. Listed are some of the topics that Lisa presents on:

 

Programs for School Staff 

**New** When Parents Leave Children Behind: Death, Divorce, Abandonment, Incarceration, Deployment  :How to Help these Children Succeed

 

Grief, Loss and Helpful Ways to Cope: Program for School Staff to support  the pre-schooler, elementary aged student, middle schooler and high schooler

Helping Children and Teens Through Grief

 ** New**  Teens, Grief and Technology: The Influence of Technology on  the Way Kids Grieve (facebook, myspace, texting, mp3's,etc) 

 

What 21st Century School Professionals Need to Know about Grieving Students  (2-3 hour interactive professional development workshop)

 

Listening to a Grieving Student (When they want to talk or when they don't want to talk about it).

Bereavement in the School-aged Child

How Can I Help?: When someone we care about is grieving (child, teenager or adult)

When children's parents are incarcerated or absent from the child's life

School Staff  Grief: How to teach and work with children when the helping adults are grieving

Autism and Loss: Teachers Helping Children with Special Needs Grieve in a Typical Classroom

When a Classmate Dies 

When a Teacher or Staff Member Dies 

When A Parent Has Cancer or Other Illness: Supporting their Grieving Children in School

When Parents Die: supporting staff and students

What Teachers and School Personnel Need to Know about Grief

The Special Needs of Grieving Children with Special Needs: How to help these students succeed

 

 

 

 

 

Programs for Parents, PTO's and PTA's:

What Parents Need to Know about Children, Teens and Grief

Raising Resilient Children and Teens in Difficult Times

When a Classmate Dies 

When a Teacher or Staff Member Dies 

When A Parent Has Cancer or Other Illness: Supporting their Grieving Children in School

When Parents Die: supporting staff and students

**New** When Parents Leave Children Behind: Death, Divorce, Abandonment, Incarceration, Deployment  :How to Help these Children Succeed

 

What Teachers and School Personnel Need to Know about Grief

The Special Needs of Grieving Children with Special Needs: How to help these students succeed

 

Grief, Bullying and Cyberbullying: The impact on schools, families and students and communities

Grief and Addictions: The Dangers of Unacknowledged and Unexpressed Grief

Grieving in our 'Get over it Society'

Divorce, Children and Grief: Helping Children Succeed when their World is Split in Half

 

What College Faculty Need to Know about Grief

 

When a Student's Loved One Has Died: presentation for classroom, parents and guardians and staff.

Teens and Suicide (staff, parents, students)

 

Presentations and Assembly Programs for Students

 

Coping with Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff  (presented to pre-K through 12th grade as well as at colleges and universities)   Can be a classroom presentation, entire grade or school assembly

 

Children Coping with Transitions and Change

 

Grief Stinks When You Are a Teen: How Teens Cope with Loss, Grief and Transition

 

Substance Abuse, Alcohol, Cutting and other Dangerous Behaviors Won't Make Grief Go Away!

 

When a Friend Dies: Teens Coping with the Death of a Friend or Peer

Moving on to Middle School: Coping with Changes, Peer Issues, and More Responsibility

Graduation and Transitions: What's Next and How to Cope in Healthy Ways with Changes

 

College Bound Seniors: What They Need to Know about Coping, Building a Support Network and Finding and Identifying Resources for a Healthy, Happy and Successful College Career


Programs for Hospital Professionals

 

What Physicians Need to Know about Grief

What Physicians and Nurses Need to Know about Grief, Families and the Use of Technology in Supporting them through grief: (caringbridge.org, facebook, video chatting, resources,etc) 

 

What Nurses Need to Know about Grief (the children, families and co-workers)



Beyond Band-aids and Lesson Plans: What School Nurses and Educators Need to Know about Cutting and other Self Injury

Grief and the Developmentally Disabled 

Grief of the Caregiver

Grief at Work: Healing in the Workplace :Giving Permission to Professionals to Grieve

Grief Across the Life Spectrum

 

Police, Fire Departments, EMS Workers

Police, Fire and First Aid Squads: Working with Grief : professional grief, grief of all involved at the scene, and dealing with personal grief.


 

What Teenagers Should Know about Grief, Loss and Healing

 

Parents of Hospitalized Children

 

What Happened? Coping with a Child's Hospitalization, illness, siblings, work and everything else

 

Grief of Siblings When a Child is Ill

 

Sharing Our Grief Together: Group that provides a supportive and safe place for parents and caregivers to talk about struggles, grief, experiences, hope and resilience, that meets in the hospital for parents coping with an ill child.  

Lisa Athan Speaking at Overlook Hospital, 8/09
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What Pediatricians Should Know about Grief

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