Joy R. Samuels – 2-Day Comprehensive Grief Certificate Course

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Joy R. Samuels – 2-Day Comprehensive Grief Certificate Course

Your client’s world has been shattered following the loss of a loved one. Not only are they adjusting to these days and weeks without that person, but they are also struggling with changes to their sense of self. Who are they now as they navigate this new world? Your client is stuck in a place of paralyzing sorrow, and you’re unsure of what else to do to help.
You can transform the way you treat grieving clients with the tools and strategies you’ll learn in this 2-day Comprehensive Certificate Course!
Watch Rev. Dr. Joy Samuels, LPC-MHSP, NCC, as she leads you through the process of working with bereaved individuals and aiding them with making meaning after loss. You’ll learn evidence-based counseling strategies appropriate for the treatment of multiple types of losses, including non-death losses, and grieving styles. In addition, you’ll acquire the skills you need to tailor clinical interventions to the uniqueness of each client’s grief experiences
Watch this certificate course recording, and you’ll learn how to guide your clients through making meaning after loss – drastically increasing their well-being and reducing symptoms of complicated grief. You’ll walk away with the tools you need to help your clients live fulfilling lives after loss.

Explain relevant theories and models describing the physical and psychosocial effects of loss, grief and mourning on the individual and family system and their clinical implications.
Articulate how to plan and implement appropriate assessments, interventions and strategies to help individuals and families cope with loss and grief to improve treatment outcomes.
Perform a clinical assessment to inform the clinician’s choice of best treatment interventions for the reduction of symptoms of complicated grief, disenfranchised grief, or Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder.
Differentiate potential loss events occurring throughout the lifespan, including non-death situations, to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
Analyze the ethnic, gender and cultural factors that affect individual responses to loss-related situations as it relates to case conceptualization.
Compare factors that influence normal and complicated reactions to dying and grief in clients.
Examine one’s own cognitive, affective and behavioral reactions to death, dying and bereavement, as it relates to professional practice with clients experiencing grief and loss.
Identify theories and models of individual, cultural, couple, family and community resilience in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
Analyze the efficacy of various treatment interventions for complicated grief to improve clinical outcomes.
Scrutinize the ethical and legal issues in end-of-life decisions, such as suffering, dying and choice, and their clinical implications.
Utilize clinical strategies to assist grieving clients in the move from flight or fight to social engagement in session.
Utilize the co-regulating pathways of the social engagement system in session as an approach to managing symptoms of complicated grief.

Types of Grief & Their Implications for Treatment

Disenfranchised grief
Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder
Traumatic bereavement
Complicated Grief

Common trajectories for grief
Recognize complicated grief
Risk factors for complicated grief
Treatment Interventions

Types of Loss & Their Impact on Grieving

Parental loss
Child loss
Widowhood
Non-death losses

Assessment: Intake Considerations for Grieving Clients

Current conceptualization models
Recognize different expressions of grief
Factors impacting the grief experience
Assess for depression and suicide ideation
Differentiate between depression, grief & PTSD
Use of Adjustment Disorder diagnosis with grief clients
Determine how the client understands their grief narrative
Persistent complex bereavement disorder
DSM-5® changes to Major Depressive Disorder
Take home assessment tools

Cultural Considerations for Grief Treatment

Cultural factors affecting expression of grief
Impact on mourning practices
Culture’s impact on death anxiety & meaning of life
Determine where the identity emphasis lies
Cultural values regarding emotional expression and disclosure
The impact of society on grief

Grief Treatment: Interventions & Strategies to Improve Clinical Outcomes

Assist clients with expressing their pain
Integrate a new inner image of the deceased
Client self-assessment strategies for coping
Foster client relaxation skills
Let the client lead: Starting point, story & stopping point
Cultivate acceptance
Elicit emotional availability in clients
Give clients “permission” to not share stories
Focus on planning – not positivity
Develop healthy grief rituals
Target guilt due to stopping grief rituals
Build a bridge between memories, current behaviors & underlying values
Help clients accept the finality of the death
Navigate the treatment of multiple losses

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In-Session Activities: On-the-Spot Interventions to Facilitate Healing

The client “influence of loss” chart
Use loving kindness meditation to build self-compassion in clients
”Who am I?” exercise
Utilize client letters to self

Grief Across the Lifespan: Help Your Clients Heal at Any Developmental Stage

Developmental considerations & milestones related to loss reactions for:

Children
Adolescents
Early adulthood
Middle adulthood
Later adulthood

Grief & the Family: Guide Families Through Healthy Grieving

Family systems theory: Family influences on individual grief
Variables that complicate family adaptation
Strategies to guide family adaptation to loss
Develop respect for different grieving styles
The role of gender norms
”Family coat of arms” activity

Professional Issues: Ethical Considerations for Working with Grieving Clients, Their Families & the Terminally Ill

Ethical dilemmas that confront the terminally ill
Ethical principles of end-of-life decisions
The clinician’s role in addressing psychological suffering & needs of the terminally ill
Impact of cause of death on social isolation
Identify the core values and principles of professional ethical behavior
Boundaries of professional competence