Understanding and Connecting to Grief- Riding the Wave of Pain to Change

Time:

9:00am – 4:30pm

Dates:

Mar 22 2024
April 30, 2024. Jun 27, 2024, Jul 10, 2024, Sep 23, 2024

Workshop Description:

Workshop participants will recognize the clients struggle in managing grief and the challenges of clinicians face in treating grief.  Diagnosing Prolonged Grief Disorder.  Discuss approaches and interventions to grief therapy, working with emotions and assessing your client’s sense of meaning in relation to their loss.   Identify the various types of losses including pandemic fatigue and how it impacts the mourning process.

CE Hours:

(5) Core Hours

Cost: $100.00
LPCA CE Approval # 2021-06-22-519MLW
NBCC Approved: ACEP No. 7211

Objectives:

• What is grief?
• How and why grief gets complicated when mourning.
• Diagnosing Prolonged Grief Disorder
• Addressing the needs of the bereaved.
• Identifying the various forms of grief.
• Identify coping strategies and techniques in grief therapy.
• Making meaning of your grief.

Agenda:

9:00am – 10:30am
Introductions.
Examining the symptoms, implications of grief.
Diagnosing Prolonged Grief Disorder
Types of losses.
10:30am-10:45am:
Break
10:45am-12:00
Assessing your clients “meaning” to grief/loss. . Cultural Differences.
12:00pm-1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm-2:30pm
Identifying coping techniques in grief therapy and making meaning to grief/loss.
2:30pm-2:45pm
Break
2:45pm-3:30pm
Addressing the needs of the bereaved.  Review