Full Course Description

Non-Death Losses: How the Grief We Don’t Call Grief Applies to Every Client

Most people think grief only relates to death. As such, so many discount and judge their loss experiences as “no big deal.” But now more than ever clinicians are discovering that the grief inherent in daily life has a huge impact on our clients, regardless of why they’re seeking support or treatment. In this session, Megan will show you how to recognize grief unrelated to death, change the culture about how we view these non-death losses and give you clinical solutions for improving support and connection.

Program Information

Objectives

Differentiate the features and corresponding clinical impacts of grief that occurs in non-death losses from grief that occurs in death-related losses.
Develop a case conceptualization that accounts for the impacts of everyday stressors and non-death losses.
Apply interventions for grief support in non-death loss scenarios.

Outline

Grief beyond death: recognizing grief unrelated to death
Moral distress, chronic illness, everyday stressors and more
Changing the culture: how all clinical issues are grief issues
Clinical responses to non-death losses, interactions and experiences

Target Audience

Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Nurse Practioners
Psychologists
Social Workers
Other Mental Health Professions

Copyright : 04/13/2023

Ambiguous Loss in Narcissistic Relationships: Clinical Skills to Process the Unresolved Grief of Estrangement

Grief and loss hit clients recovering from narcissistic abuse on multiple levels. From grieving a childhood of abuse and neglect to mourning the loss of the rosy-colored glasses that allowed victims to stay in a cycle of abuse -- grief echoes through all corners of the adult child of a narcissist’s life. In this session, you’ll view narcissistic abuse expert and best-selling author Amy Marlow-MacCoy, LPC as she gives you the skills and tools you need to recognize grief in a client’s anger, help them identify the losses of the past, present, and future, and come to terms with the ambiguity of grieving a person or relationship that may never be peacefully resolved.

Program Information

Objectives

Differentiate ambiguous loss from other losses and identify relevant clinical implications.
Apply the theory of ambiguous loss to clinical cases involving emotional abuse and estrangement.
Support clients in exploring all dimensions of grief work, coping with past, present and future losses.
Analyze how guilt and shame can complicate grief, particularly when a client’s estranged loved one dies and they are unable to achieve resolution.
Employ a past, present and future perspective to treatment to help clients manage the pain of the past, find closure, and envisions a future after the “death” of a relationship.
Apply evidence-informed techniques for promoting resilience in circumstances of ambiguous loss in the context of estrangement or the end of abusive relationships.

Outline

Ambiguous losses in the context of abuse
The grief of the past - the childhood that happened and the one that didn’t
Grieving the present and future - helping clients come to terms with what is
Clinical skills to process grief that occurs in relationships that end or change due to estrangement
Risks, limitations and challenges

Target Audience

Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Nurse Practioners
Psychologists
Social Workers
Other Mental Health Professions

Copyright : 04/13/2023

This Didn't Go as Planned: Practical Approaches to Validate and Process Reproductive Grief

Pregnancy loss, reproductive challenges such as infertility, birth trauma or the experience of a perinatal mental health disorder leave millions of people each year feeling "this wasn't supposed to be this way." Left to sort through the resulting grief that’s seldomly validated by society, they can find themselves in your office looking to make sense of it all and find a way forward. In this session, you’ll view expert Dr. Julie Bindeman as she shows you how you can validate these clients’ losses and help them cope with practical strategies you can start using immediately in your practice.

Program Information

Objectives

Assess for disenfranchised losses that can occur within the reproductive years.
Develop treatment plans that include normalization and contextualization of these kinds of reproductive losses.
Utilize strategies to help clients manage the myriad of feelings that are experienced within the framework of reproductive loss.

Outline

Disenfranchised grief and reproductive trauma
The unseen losses of infertility, pregnancy loss, birth trauma, and perinatal mental health disorders
How clinicians can help clients recognize and label these losses (even those in the distant past)
Strategies to help normalize and process reproductive losses
Research, risk and limitations

Target Audience

Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Nurse Practioners
Psychologists
Social Workers
Other Mental Health Professions

Copyright : 04/13/2023

The Unseen Losses of Sexual Violence: TF-CBT and Grief Work to Restore Clients Sense of Hope, Self-Acceptance and More

Survivors of sexual assault have lost so much. Their sense of safety, trust and control have been robbed from them. Their very sense of identity taken as they grieve for the person they were, and the person they might have been had “that” not happened. Whether your clients’ pain is fresh or decades old, this session will show you how to incorporate grief work into your treatment to help survivors come to terms with what happened, overcome the guilt that can cohabitate with grief, regain their sense of control and heal.

Program Information

Objectives

Assess if grief is actively present due to sexual trauma in clients.
Utilize 2-3 interventions to help grieving clients improve their level of functioning due to sexual trauma.
Apply grounding techniques for symptom management of acute grief due to sexual trauma.

Outline

The impact of sexual trauma
- Is it Grief or Depression?
- Concrete losses and abstract losses
Interventions to navigate grief due to Sexual Assault
- Self Acceptance Activities
- Trigger Monitoring Diary
- Responsibility pie chart from TFCBT
Grounding Techniques for triggers and acute grief

Target Audience

Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Nurse Practioners
Psychologists
Social Workers
Other Mental Health Professions

Copyright : 04/13/2023

Mother Loss: Interventions for Clients with Relationships from Unbreakable to Fractured

From clients who’ve lost the biggest source of support in their lives, to those with broken maternal bonding from neglect, abuse, or abandonment, mother loss affects clients’ sense of identity, relationships, and overall sense of place in the world. In this session, view therapist and best-selling author Claire Bidwell Smith as she combines her personal experience of losing her mother as a teenager with almost two decades of working closely with this population to give you clinical tools and interventions you need to help clients feel whole, restore their sense of worth, and heal.

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze how estrangement can complicated the grieving process for clients and identify associated clinical implications.
Utilize narrative strategies to support clients in managing reactivated grief years or decades after a loss.
Apply mindfulness interventions to help clients manage health anxiety that can emerge after losing their mother.

Outline

How losing a mother impacts attachment, identity and sense of place in the world
What most therapists miss
How estrangement complicates grief
Practical narrative strategies for working with reactivated “old” grief
Imposter syndrome in women who’ve experienced mother loss
Mindfulness interventions for health anxiety and more

Target Audience

Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Nurse Practioners
Psychologists
Social Workers
Other Mental Health Professions

Copyright : 04/14/2023

Complicated Spiritual Grief: Assessment and Treatment

Faith, religion, and spirituality can be a supportive and comforting resource following the loss of anyone or anything that leaves a sense of deprivation and yearning. However, for some people their relationships to a higher power and/or spiritual community are painfully wounded, leading to the secondary loss of their spiritual resources, connections, and spiritual crisis. In this session, you’ll learn to recognize the impact of complicated spiritual grief on the bereaved’s grieving process and increase your skills in conducting a comprehensive clinical assessment and development of effective treatment plans.

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze how complicated spiritual grief is experienced and expressed in clients.
Utilize a bereavement-specific measure to assess clients for complicated spiritual grief following loss.
Utilize clinical interventions that alleviate bereavement distress and support clients in making sense of losses during spiritual crises.

Outline

How to make the distinction between religion and spirituality
- Clarifying how religion and spirituality differ
- Learn how religion and spirituality relate to one’s self-concept and worldview
Exploring how grief is a spiritual crisis
- Why bereavement can lead to questioning one’s faith or belief system
How can grief can be a catalyst for spiritual growth?
- Loss leading a person into a search for meaning and purpose
Defining complicated spiritual grief
How complicated spiritual grief is experienced and expressed
- How does complicated spiritual grief actually affect the griever?
- The impact of complicated spiritual grief on one’s connection to a higher power or meaning
- How one’s spiritual community may exacerbate complex spiritual grief
- Complex spiritual grief and the impact on religious practices
How to help clients who are struggling with religious and spiritual crisis
- Using the Inventory of Spiritual Grief 2.0
- Clinical interventions
- Research, risks and limitations

Target Audience

Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Nurse Practioners
Psychologists
Social Workers
Other Mental Health Professions

Copyright : 04/14/2023

The Grief Nobody Talks About: Counseling Strategies for Families Facing the Losses of Addiction

It’s a silent grief nobody talks about. Buried in shame, despair and fear; families living with addiction experience deep ambiguous and non-finite grief. Watching helplessly, the hopes they had for their futures dissolve before their eyes. Unrecognizable from the person they knew, families can even feel like their loved one has already died. In this session, view Litsa Williams therapist and author of What’s Your Grief? Lists to Help You through Any Loss as she shows you the specific strategies and techniques you need to counsel the families of those with addictions and design treatment plans that address the distinctively challenging emotional and relational aspects of these losses.

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze the dynamics of nonfinite grief and ambiguous loss for family members of those with active addictions.
Use practical, evidence-informed skill building to increase psychological flexibility and tolerance of ambiguity in clients who have family members with active addictions.
Use reconstruction, sense-making, and redefinition of hope for family members of those with active addiction.

Outline

Ambiguous loss and nonfinite grief in the context of addiction
Therapeutic framework and goals of counseling with families of those with addictions
Barriers to support and effective interventions
Collaborative treatment planning
Intervention and skill-building
- Dialectical thinking for tempering mastery and redefining meaning
- Bruce and Schultz psychoeducational interventions
- Identity loss and reconstruction
- ‘making-sense’ as meaning
- Identifying present-moment hope
Risks, research and limitations

Target Audience

Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Nurse Practioners
Psychologists
Social Workers
Other Mental Health Professions

Copyright : 04/14/2023

The Grief of Medical Trauma, Injury and Illness: Strategies and Supports for Coping and Adaptation

A line forever between what was and what will be, those impacted by medical trauma and chronic illnesses feel every loss. Struck with a sudden or gradual forfeiture of abilities, independence, self-esteem, freedom, comfort, hope and so much more, the grief of what has been taken from them can make a path forward seem unattainable. In this timely session, Dr. Sacha McBain will show you how clinicians can work with the grief that often follows medical trauma, help clients cope with and adapt to their losses, and support them as they shape a new sense of identity and purpose for themselves.

Program Information

Objectives

Utilize the ecological model of medical trauma to develop a trauma-informed case formulation.
Tailor trauma-informed and trauma-focused treatment to the address the unique loss and grief experienced by medical trauma survivors and their families.
Utilize clinical strategies from the fields of health and rehabilitation psychology to target health-related factors that contribute to difficulty with adjustment to illness or injury and perpetuate complicated grief.

Outline

Overview of medical trauma
Aspects of medical trauma that may elicit grief and/or loss
Assessing for medical trauma and disenfranchised grief
Strategies to support adjustment to injury or illness
Risks, research and limitations

Target Audience

Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Nurse Practioners
Psychologists
Social Workers
Other Mental Health Professions

Grief Counseling and Treatment Certification Training: Assessments and Interventions to Support Healthy Grieving and Adaptation to Death and Loss

It has always been your calling to help the suffering.

And today a growing wave of grieving clients is looking to professionals like you for assistance as dramatic rises in death and loss have left millions in anguish.

You’re eager to lead those in pain out of their dark places and give them a glimmer of hope, but working with death and loss can be intimidating. One wrong step can break the therapeutic alliance and some forms of grief are easy to overlook, preventing you from pursuing the most beneficial treatment path.

How can you ensure you’re prepared?

This one-day certification training will give you step-by-step guidance on identifying specific manifestations of grief and individualizing counseling and treatment so you can normalize clients’ pain, listen in a way their family and friends cannot, and help them rebuild fulfilling lives!

Full of ready to use assessment tools, therapeutic approaches and specific clinical interventions, you’ll finish this training feeling ready and capable to improve grieving clients’ ability to express their emotions, build support, and process their grief in a healthy way.

Best of all, you can add a valuable certification to your resume and become a Certified Grief Informed Professional (CGP) through Evergreen Certifications upon completion of this training at no additional cost to you!

Purchase today!

CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!

• No hidden fees – PESI pays for your application fee (a $99 value)*!
• Simply complete this seminar and the post-event evaluation included in this training, and your application to be a Certified Grief Informed Professional through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*

Attendees will receive documentation of CGP designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following the program.
*Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/cgp for professional requirements.

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze how types of grief and grief reactions inform clinicians’ choice of counseling or treatment.
Investigate appropriate grief symptomology and employ assessment tools to uncover clinical concerns like trauma, depression, and suicidality.
Utilize best practices to enhance grief counseling and treatment with clients from diverse cultures and with diverse beliefs.
Investigate the needs of bereaved children, families, and the elderly to individualize treatment and promote healthy adaptation following loss.
Apply CBT techniques to help clients manage guilt, blame, and other maladaptive cognitions following loss.
Apply narrative approaches to help clients cope and empower them to construct meaning following loss.

Outline

The Many Faces of Grief: Types, Presentations and Clinical Implications

Kübler Ross’ Stages of Grief
Normal grief and acute reactions
Complicated or prolonged grief
Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder – chronic, masked, distorted
Ambiguous grief in the face of changes in the living
Traumatic grief following sudden or violent loss
Anticipatory and disenfranchised grief
Delayed, inhibited, abbreviated other types of commonly overlooked grief

Assessment Tools for Grieving Clients: Identify Grief Intensity, Suicidality, Depression and Other Co-Occurring Disorders

Grief intensity scale
Hogan grief reaction checklist
Uncover trauma, depression, and anxiety
How to assess for suicidal thoughts or ideation
Isolation, sleep, and nutrition concerns for grieving clients
The caregiver grief inventory

Culture, Spirituality and Mourning: The Clinicians’ Quick Guide to Grief Work with Clients of Diverse Cultures and Beliefs

Continuing relationships with the deceased
How culture impacts length of mourning
Spiritual impacts of grief
Cultural expectations of grief to be aware of

Grief Counseling and Treatment Approaches: Promote Healthy Grieving for Clients Across the Lifespan

Grief counseling vs. grief treatment – what’s the difference?
Working with grief in kids, adults, and the elderly
Dual Process Model – loss and restoration
Companioning Model – being present for the mourner
Task Based Model - accommodating a new life
The ATTEND Model for increased attunement
Complicated Grief Treatment Model
Ethical and professional boundary issues

The Grief and Bereavement Toolbox: Enhance Emotional Regulation, Build Connection and Support Adaptation to Loss

How to use narrative interventions in complicated grief counseling
CBT techniques for guilt, blame and other maladaptive cognitions following loss
Family sculpting techniques for grief
Creative tools to support emotional regulation and expression
Ways to build social support
Research and treatment risks
Case studies

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage and Family Therapists
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Addiction Counselors
Nurse Practitioners
Mental Health Nurses
Physicians
Nurses
Nursing Home Administrators
Pastoral Counselors
Chaplains/Clergy
Thanatologists