Invited Speaker Series

The Many Faces of Grief: A Clinician's Toolbox to Facilitate Emotional Regulation Through the Grief Experience (6.0 CE Workshop)

Losing a loved one is perhaps one of the greatest pains we experience in life. Long-term illness, accident, health crisis, addictive substance or suicide will influence the grieving process and may produce unique psychological consequences. For clinicians who work with children and adults grieving different types of loss, it is imperative to understand the physical, psychological and behavioral repercussions that often occur and implications for treatment. In this highly experiential 6.0 CE workshop, you'll develop a toolbox of clinical skills to help clients through mourning losses and facilitate growth after grief.

Learning Objectives
After the workshop participants will be able to:
1. Identify different forms of grief: traumatic/complicated, disenfranchised, anticipatory, delayed, cumulative and compounded grief.
2. Understand DSM differential diagnoses between grief, depression, traumatic grief, prolonged grief and complicated bereavement.
3. Explain how the grief experience differs for children, teens and adults and for survivors of sudden versus prolonged death.
4. Understand the major theories and tasks utilized in grief therapy.
5. Develop awareness of evidence-based treatments used with different forms of grief.
6. Describe major constructs within Post Traumatic Growth in grief therapy.