Course | Healing Through Divorce and Separation

Instructor Information

Tammy Schamuhn
Tammy Schamuhn is a Registered Psychologist, Registered Play Therapist, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, and the Co-Founder of the Institute of Child Psychology. She has a Bachelors of Education from the University of Alberta and practiced as an Elementary Teacher in Canada before going on to do her Masters degree in Psychology. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of Family Counselling Centres where she and her team treat children, adolescents, and their families through the use of a variety of types of therapies. Her clinic also utilized animals in their practice, as Tammy has developed a canine-assisted and equine-assisted therapy programs for treating children and teens. Furthermore, she also runs an extensive clinical internship program at her clinic where she trains masters-level interns who are training to become child psychologists, and provides clinical supervision to newly licensed provisional psychologists in the province of Alberta. She approaches her clinical and consultative work with parents and professionals with an attachment and neurobiological lens: all of her work is based on the neurology of the brain and how attachment is integral to adaptive functioning of both children and adults.

Earn: Certificate: Helping Children Through Separation and Divorce
Time: 3 Hours
Prerequisites: None
Age Group: 3-17 Years Old

Description
Has your child, or a child you know, been impacted by their parent’s separation. Maybe this child is struggling with confusion, grief, anger, or anxiety, and you just want to know the best way to help them make it through.

Divorce and parental separation is becoming more common and each child responds differently. In this online course parents, caregivers, family mediators and mental health professionals will learn about helping children cope with divorce/separation.

If you want to know how to navigate the many landmines that comes with this transition, how to help your child heal, and to move forward with resiliency, you can join this course!

Objectives

• Understand how the parent-child attachment is impacted
• Identify situations and circumstances to avoid during and after divorce/separatioN
• Explore how divorce/separation effects children and parents
• Acquire parenting strategies to better help children adjust to the changes the come with divorce/separation
• Identify co-parenting skills that will protect children from emotional and psychological damage

Course Highlights

Toolbox: Concrete strategies to help a child understand and process this loss
Certificate of Completion with 3.0 instructional hours endorsed by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association.
Resources: Access to several mental health and parenting resources
Support:​ Access to the instructors who teach each course should any questions arise.
Self Paced Study: No timeline for completion of the course.

Who Is This Course for?

This presentation is appropriate for parents, educators, child care professionals, caregivers, and mental health professionals.

Disclaimer

All courses offered by ICP are for individual use only. Using them for corporate/group training, or shared purposes are a violation of copyright law. Furthermore, all products/services provided by the Institute of Child Psychology, along with all workshop materials, are strictly for educational purposes only and cannot be categorized as psychological or mental health services.