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. They are struggling to adjust to these weeks and days without the person they love. As they navigate the new world, who are they now? 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 SamuelsLPC-MHSP and NCC will guide you through the process of helping bereaved persons make meaning after loss. You’ll learn evidence-Counseling strategies that are evidence-based and can be used to treat multiple losses.-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-Becoming and reducing the symptoms of complicated grief. You’ll walk away with the tools you need to help your clients live fulfilling lives after loss.

1. Discuss relevant theories and models that describe the psychosocial and physical effects of grief, loss and mourning on an individual and the family system. Also explain their clinical implications.
2. Discuss the best ways to plan, implement and evaluate appropriate assessments, interventions, and strategies that can be used to support families and individuals in their grief and loss.
3. 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.
4. Diversify potential loss events that may occur throughout your life, even non-fatal.-death situations, to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
5. Analyze the cultural, ethnic and gender factors that impact individual responses to loss-Related situations, as it relates case conceptualization
6. Compare the factors that influence clients’ grief and death.
7. 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.
8. In relation to treatment planning and assessment, identify theories and models that can help you understand the individual, cultural, couple and family resilience.
9. Assess the efficacy and clinical benefits of treatment options for complex grieving to improve clinical outcomes.
10. End. Examine all ethical and legal issues-Of-Life decisions such as choosing to suffer, die, or choose, and their clinical implications.
11. Use clinical strategies to help grieving clients make the transition from fighting or flight to social engagement in session.
12. Make use of the co-As a way to manage symptoms of complex grief, regulate the social engagement system in session.

Types Grief & Their Implications for Treatment

• Disenfranchised grief
• Complex and persistent bereavement disorder
• Traumatic bereavement
• Complex Grief
  • Common grief trajectories
  • Recognize difficult grief
  • Complications of grief: Risk factors
  • Treatment Interventions
• Types of Loss & Their Impact on Grieving
  • Parental loss
  • Loss of a Child
  • Widowhood
  • Non-death losses

Assessment: For clients who are grieving, there are some things you can do to help them.

• Current conceptualization models
• Recognize that different expressions may be grief
• Factors that can impact the grief experience
• Evaluate for suicide and depression
• Differentiate between depression, grief & PTSD
• Clients with grief may use Adjustment Disorder diagnosis
• Find out how the client perceives their grief story
• Persistent complex bereavement disorder
• DSM-5® changes to Major Depressive Disorder
• Assess your home with these tools

Cultural Considerations Grief Treatment

• Expression of grief can be affected by cultural factors
• Impact on mourning practices
• Culture’s impact on death anxiety & meaning of life
• Find out where the identity focus lies
• Cultural values for emotional expression and disclosure
• The impact of society upon grief

Grief Treatment: Interventions & Strategies to Improve Clinical Outcomes

• Assist clients in expressing pain
• Incorporate a new inner image for the deceased
• Clients-Evaluation strategies for coping
• Foster client relaxation skills
• Let the client lead: Starting point, story & stopping point
• Cultivate acceptance
• Encourage clients to express their emotions
• Provide clients “permission” Do not share your stories
• Don’t be so positive, focus on the planning.
• Develop healthy grief rituals
• Stopping grieving rituals may cause guilt.
• Build a bridge between memories, current behaviors & underlying values
• Admit that death is final for clients
• Learn how to deal with multiple losses

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In-Session Activities On-The-Spot Interventions to Facilitate Healing

• The client “influence of loss” Chart
• Meditation of loving kindness and compassion can help you build self-esteem-Compassion for clients
• ”Who am I?” exercise
• Use client letters to help yourself

Grief The Lifespan Help Your Clients Heal at Any Developmental Stage

• Developmental considerations & milestones related to loss reactions for:
  • Children
  • Adolescents
  • The early years of adulthood
  • Middle adulthood
  • Later adulthood

Grief & the Family: Guide Families Through Healthy Grieving

• Theory of Family Systems: Family influences on Individual Grief
• Variables can make family adaptation more difficult
• Strategies to assist family loss adaptation
• Learn to be open-minded about different grieving styles
• Gender norms: What role does it play?
• ”Family coat of arms” activity

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

• The ethical dilemmas facing the terminally ill
• Ethical principles that lead to ethical ends-Of-life decisions
• The clinician’s role in addressing psychological suffering & needs of the terminally ill
• Social isolation and the impact of cause of death
• Identify core values and principles that guide professional ethical behavior
• Boundaries of professional competence