Where Addiction Recovery Meets Grief Work: A Critical Intersection for Therapy

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David Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on grief and loss. His decades of experience with thousands of people on the edge of life and death has taught him the secrets to living a happy and fulfilled life, even after life’s tragedies. He is the author of six books, including his latest bestselling book, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief. He coauthored two books with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. His new online model of grief support, Tender Hearts, offers over twenty-five groups. Additionally, David leads one of the most respected Grief Educator Certification programs. He is the founder of Grief.com.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: David Kessler is the is the co-founder and President Emeritus of Project Angel Food. He is a published author and receives royalties. David Kessler receives a speaking honorarium and recording and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: David Kessler is a board member for the Farrah Fawcett Foundation. He is a team member of the Health Care Executives of Southern California, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Red Cross.

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Objectives

1. Demonstrate 5 techniques, tools and principles in the field of addiction to help cope with all types of loss.
2. Propose 3 ways to use meaning to help create purpose.
3. Propose 2 ways to resolve the internal struggle of related to asking “why?”.
4. Utilize 2 ways that include new information on brain science to address guilt, shame and stigma associated with grief.

Outline

• Meaning-making as a new tool for dealing with addiction
• Techniques for strength-based grief counseling
• Post traumatic growth vs Post traumatic stress
• Seeing loss through the eyes of addiction
• Witnessing vs “Fixing” Grief
• The consequences of trying to find meaning too early
• Loss by Addiction: Meaning-making for healing self-blame
• Understand the roles they did and didn’t play in an addiction death
• Help Clients Change Their Thinking Around Loss
• Strategies to address addiction as an illness
• Use positive psychology to increase the possibility of post-traumatic growth
• How to decrease catastrophizing after loss
• Learn ways to instill good memories instead of painful ones

Target Audience

• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Physicians
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Other Mental Health Professions