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Grief Treatment: Current Evidence Based Approaches to Care Across the Lifespan

Program Information

Objectives

1. Evaluate current models of grief theory that go beyond the five stages and the treatment implications of each model.
2. Distinguish the unique experience created by different types of loss in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
3. Assess a client’s understanding of death and response to grief from a developmental perspective across the lifespan.
4. Determine how grief impacts the family system (individually and together), and how to better equip them to support each other in grief.
5. Appraise current and cutting-edge modalities used to treat typical and complicated grief in the clinical setting.
6. Integrate specific creative counseling interventions that engage the individual, couple or family in the process of grief.

Outline

Grief Theory Beyond Kübler-Ross

• Tasks of Mourning
• Dual Process Model of Coping
• Continuing Bonds Theory
• Grief and Attachment Theory
• Potential criteria for “Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder”
• Two creative interventions articulating these theories

Circumstances of Bereavement

• Implications of Specific losses
  • Pre-loss factors
  • Relationship influence
  • Type of and proximity to death
  • Disenfranchised losses
  • Living losses

Grief Counseling Strategies Across the Lifespan

• Childhood and adolescence
  • The occurrence of grief
  • Developmental understanding of death
  • Grief responses and adaptation to loss
  • Six creative age appropriate interventions
• Young and middle adulthood
  • Grief circumstances
  • Life stages and individual needs
  • Assessments and interventions
  • Family Systems
    • The family narrative
    • Use the Internal Family Systems Approach
  • Six creative interventions appropriate for middle adulthood
• Older adulthood
  • Type of loss
  • Grief responses and perception of death
  • Treatment strategies based on developmental needs
  • Six creative interventions specific for older adults

Grief Treatment – Current Evidence-Based Approach to Care

• Typical Trajectory Griever
  • Limitations to grief counseling/assessing effectiveness
  • Assessment tools
  • Expressive arts
  • Companioning model
  • Therapeutic presence
  • Narrative therapy
  • Creating space for suffering
  • Limitations of the client-centered approach
• Complicated Griever
  • Assessment tools
  • CBT
  • Complicated Grief Treatment Model
  • Grief and trauma intervention
  • Meaning reconstruction
• Ethical Considerations
  • Socio-cultural context
  • Gender bias
  • Pitfalls in treating the family system
  • Grief in the digital universe
  • Spirituality and grief
  • Personal death anxiety
  • Countertransference
  • The wounded healer
  • Occupational stress
  • The grieving therapist
  • Self-care

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Case Managers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Chaplains/Clergy
• Nursing Home Administrators
• Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 02/05/2020

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Grief in the DSM-5®: Changes in Diagnosing Grief-Related Disorders

Designed for mental health professionals, this course discusses the hotly debated bereavement-related DSM-5® changes: the bereavement exclusion in major depressive disorder, uncomplicated grief, specified trauma and stressor related disorders, and the proposed diagnosis of complicated grief. You will learn, based on empirical research, why the changes were needed, what the implications of those changes are in clinical practice, and how those implications can enhance or detract from differential bereavement assessments. Also discussed are the reason why the changes remain problematic and what the implications are for future DSM® editions.

Program Information

Objectives

1. Analyze how the current research in the field of bereavement is related to the changes that made in the DSM-5®
2. Evaluate the changes in the DSM-5® and respond to those changes in differential diagnosing
3. Theorize why the changes made in the DSM-5® are still problematic
4. Evaluate the implications in regard to future editions of the DSM®

Outline

Bereavement in the DSM® - historical context

Why were changes needed           

What are the changes in the DSM-5®?

• Uncomplicated grief
• Other Specified Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
• Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder - conditions for further study (Section 3)

Why are these changes still problematic?

How to use the DSM-5® for diagnosing uncomplicated and complicated grief - implications for the bereaved

• Differential diagnosing
• The "note" under Major Depressive Disorder

Future DSM® implications 

Target Audience

Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Chaplains/Clergy, and other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

1. Analyze how the current research in the field of bereavement is related to the changes that made in the DSM-5®
2. Evaluate the changes in the DSM-5® and respond to those changes in differential diagnosing
3. Theorize why the changes made in the DSM-5® are still problematic
4. Evaluate the implications in regard to future editions of the DSM®

Copyright : 09/30/2013

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