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2-Day Grief Treatment Certification Course: Evidence-Based Strategies for Helping Clients Make Meaning After Loss
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Objectives
- Differentiate 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.
- Determine 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.
- Evaluate factors that influence normal and complicated reactions to dying and grief in clients.
- Determine one’s own cognitive, affective, and behavioural reactions to death, dying, and bereavement, as it relates to professional practise with clients experiencing grief and loss.
- Differentiate 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.
- Determine 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.
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05/03/2020
Post-Traumatic Growth for Loss, Grief and Related Trauma: Guide Your Clients through the Losses in Life and Help Them Reinvest Themselves in a Life Worth Living
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Objectives
- Specify how a case conceptualization based on the strengths of the client can tap into their potential for resiliency and improve clinical outcomes.
- Analyze the neurobiology of the traumatized brain and effectively utilize clinical tools based in mindfulness and grounding to calm the biological stress response.
- Articulate the relationship of shame to trauma and loss and communicate how cognitive restructuring can be used in-session to manage the emotions of clients and open them to new possibilities.
- Employ powerful interventions informed by CBT, expressive therapies, and somatic psychotherapy to treat the devastating effects of loss and grief by reframing its associated meaning.
- Characterize the impact on clients, as well as the relevance to clinical practice, of connecting individuals and families affected by loss with social support and grief groups.
- Incorporate and individualize therapeutic interventions based in art and writing into treatment plans for loss, grief, and related trauma.
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13/06/2018
Suicide Assessment and Intervention: Today's Top Challenges for Mental Health Professionals
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Objectives
- Conduct a thorough suicide assessment that includes both risk and protective factors.
- Implement clinical techniques to support clients’ ability to self-regulate, problem solve and communicate their needs.
- Develop and monitor realistic safety plans that clients will participate in.
- Create accurate and comprehensive documentation of clinical crises to protect all parties involved and minimize liability risks.
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27/09/2019