Breaking Taboos: Helping Students Explore Death Education Through Therapeutic Art Activities - (2025)
Includes a Live Web Event on 11/04/2025 at 1:00 PM (EST)
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This webinar will provide participants with a deep understanding of the role of death education in child life curricula, focusing on supporting students' growth through therapeutic art. Attendees will gain practical tools and strategies to facilitate art-based activities that address grief, loss, and bereavement with students.
Suggested Domain: Professional Responsibility; Intervention
Credits: 1.0 PDU
Learning Objective(s):
1. Participants will examine the history, scope, and benefits of death education, including the significance in academic settings
2. Participants will review the implications of death education for child life practice
3.Participants will explore the role of therapeutic art in death education, review classroom examples, and gain practical strategies for implementing these activities with students.
Please note: All webinar content and its certificate will expire on November 4, 2028, regardless of when it is purchased, accessed, or completed. At that point, contents will no longer be available in any form, including as an archive or as a PDU certificate. It is the responsibility of the learner to complete the contents and download and save the certificate for their records prior to November 4, 2028.
Stephanie Whitten, CCLS, MS
Clinical Assistant Professor, Child Life Clinical Coordinator
University of Georgia
Stephanie Whitten is a Clinical Assistant Professor and the Child Life Clinical Coordinator at the University of Georgia, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Human Development and Family Science. She earned her master’s degree in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Alabama. A Certified Child Life Specialist since 2013, Stephanie built much of her clinical career at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, specializing in oncology and neurology/neurosurgery. With over a decade of experience teaching, supervising, and mentoring child life students, she remains committed to sharing her knowledge and passion for the field through both academic and professional roles. Her clinical and research interests focus on inclusive teaching strategies, grief and loss, and the role of child life specialists in animal-assisted interventions.
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