Course Overview
Via live interactive webinar
Course Description:
Grieving can be a lonely and sad place. COVID-19 has changed the landscape of the standard skills that therapists must possess. Clinicians often struggle with supporting clients who are experiencing the grieving and mourning process. One important aspect of managing grief is understanding, with sensitivity and balance, how to help your clients when they are stuck in an unhealthy mental and emotional state. Your training and skills can greatly impact their lives and empower them to understand, process and work through the many important aspects and stages of grief counseling.
This training will explore the different types of grief and provide insight on how COVID-19 is causing acute grief for many people. Participants will learn about current therapeutic approaches for conceptualizing grief and interventions to confidently support clients as they learn to manage and live alongside their grief. While in the past, grief counseling was a specialty for those who pursued it, COVID-19 has made grief counseling a necessary skill for clinicians. This workshop will empower and guide you in providing a framework for understanding and effectively helping clients manage their grief.
Learning Objectives:
Upon the completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe acute grief and differentiate the different types of grief.
- Identify 3 grief models and their techniques for conceptualizing and supporting grief.
- Demonstrate 5 effective interventions for grief counseling to better care for clients.
Sources and Resources (click to expand):
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Cicchetti, R. J., Mcarthur, L., Szirony, G. M., & Blum, C. (2016). Perceived Competency in Grief Counseling: Implications for Counselor Education. Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, 10(1). doi:10.5590/jsbhs.2016.10.1.02
Corpuz, J. G. (2020). COVID-19: Spiritual Interventions for the Living and the Dead. Oxford University Press Public Health Emergency Collection. doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdaa167
Cozza, S. J., Fisher, J. E., Zhou, J., Harrington-Lamorie, J., Flair, L. L., Fullerton, C. S., & Ursano, R. J. (2017). Bereaved Military Dependent Spouses and Children: Those Left Behind in a Decade of War (2001–2011). Military Medicine, 182(3). doi:10.7205/milmed-d-16-00101
Devine, M. (2018). It’s Ok That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand. Boulder, CO: Sounds True.
Dilworth, T., MA, LCPC. (n.d.). Types of Grief.
Doughty, E. A., & Hoskins, W. J. (2011). Death Education: An Internationally Relevant Approach to Grief Counseling. Journal for International Counselor Education, 3, 25-38. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.library.unlv.edu/jice
Harris, D. L., & Winokuer, H. R. (2019). Principles and Practice of Grief Counseling. doi:10.1891/9780826173331
Høeg, B. L., Appel, C. W., Heymann-Horan, A. B., Frederiksen, K., Johansen, C., Bøge, P., . . . Bidstrup, P. E. (2016). Maladaptive coping in adults who have experienced early parental loss and grief counseling. Journal of Health Psychology, 22(14), 1851-1861. doi:10.1177/1359105316638550
Myers, J. L., & Mulder, L. (2020). Frontline Workers in the Backrooms of COVID-19. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 154(3), 286-292. doi:10.1093/ajcp/aqaa106
Rosenblatt, P. C. (2019). Challenges to Cultural Outsiders from the Culture of Grief Counseling/Therapy. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 25(3), 207-223. doi:10.1080/15325024.2019.1672936
Course Access Information:
Registration includes 1 month of access to the on-demand recording following the live webinar, when an on-demand recording is available and when applicable.
CE Credits:
3 CE Live Online Contact Hour(s)
Note: Live interactive webinar is considered the same as live in person by most states. Please confirm with your local board.
Core Wellness, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0569 and for mental health counselors, #MHC-0167, psychologists, #PSY-0236 and for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0142. Note: This course provides 3 Clinical Contact Hour(s) live online credits (via interactive webinar) or live in person.
Core Wellness, LLC is authorized by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners to sponsor social work continuing education programs and maintains full responsibility for all programs. Our credits are accepted via reciprocity by the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors and Board of Psychologists. Please verify with your board.
ASWB ACE ApprovedCore Wellness, LLC, #1745, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 5/18/2024 to 5/18/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 3 Clinical continuing education credits.
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