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3-Day Advanced Grief Counseling Certification Course: Interventions to Move Clients Toward Healthy Grieving, Growth and Meaning After Loss

A wave of grief and loss has impacted millions of people and more clients than ever before are seeking the help of professionals.

But if you’re like many therapists, in-depth training on counseling and treating grieving clients wasn’t part of your graduate program.

How can you make sure you’re ready to work with this rapidly growing client population?

This all new 3-day grief certification training features 2 of our very best received trainers in the area of grief and bereavement - both highly experienced clinicians with decades of experience in the field. Together they will provide you with the tools, techniques and clinical know-how to counsel and treat clients across the lifespan whose lives have been upended by losses of all kinds.

And unlike other trainings, this program will go beyond the basics, growing your clinical skills and confidence with interactive exercises, expert guidance, practical tips, and real-world case studies so you know exactly how to:

Uncover grief intensity and assess for risks like suicidal ideation
Recognize and respond to grief types with appropriate treatment plans
Employ over 30 specific clinical tools to facilitate healthy grieving and build resiliency
Successfully structure and facilitate grief support or treatment groups
And much more!

PLUS, when you purchase this course, your certification is completely FREE should you choose to become a Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist through Evergreen Certifications upon completion of this training.
(visit www.evergreencertifications.com/cagcs for complete application requirements).

Purchase today, set yourself apart from other clinicians, and help your clients discover a path toward hope and meaning following loss!

CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!

No hidden fees – PESI pays for your application fee (a $249 value)*!
Simply complete this seminar and the post-event evaluation included in this training, and your application to be a Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist (CAGCS) through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*

Attendees will receive documentation of CAGCS designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following the program.

*Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CAGCS for professional requirements.

Program Information

Objectives

Investigate the clinical implications of distinctions between adult and youth responses to loss.
Assess for trauma, depression, substance use and anxiety in grieving clients.
Utilize two assessment measures for gathering grief responses.
Distinguish how the experiences created by different types of loss impact assessment and treatment planning.
Analyze the impact of death on the family system and the corresponding effects on treatment.
Evaluate contemporary models of bereavement as they relate to case conceptualization for grief therapy.
Asses the boundaries of professional competence in grief work and know when to refer out.
Investigate factors that can influence the grief process including the type of loss and support system.
Use the DSM-5 to diagnose/identify Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder.
Employ emotional regulation techniques to help calm clients who’ve experienced a traumatic loss.
Implement a bereavement plan of care for identified Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder.
Use CBT techniques to help bereaved clients manage guilt, blame and other maladaptive cognitions following loss.
Apply narrative approaches to help clients construct meaning following loss.
Utilize mindfulness interventions to reduce anxiety symptoms in clients with anticipatory grief.
Evaluate the clinical implications of cultural beliefs surrounding mourning and continuing relationships with the deceased.
Utilize best practices to structure and facilitate grief support or treatment groups.
Investigate ethical considerations to ensure proper management of terminally ill clients, minors, families an end-of-life decisions.
Develop strategies for self-care when working with grieving clients.
Analyze continuing attachment bonds and their relevance to clinical practice with bereaved clients across the lifespan.

Copyright : 10/01/2022

The Missing Stage of Grief: Clinical Strategies to Overcome Anxiety in the Wake of Loss

Anxiety is common, but the fear and anxiety brought on by grief is its own breed and needs to be treated as such.

Yet in the famous five stages of grief, anxiety has never been part of the equation. And traditional grief therapy has often failed to take the uniqueness of anxieties caused by loss into account. You’re left feeling out of your depth, unsure of the best way to move anxious and grieving clients forward.

Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC is an acclaimed bestselling author and expert grief therapist whose memoir The Rules of Inheritance has been published in 18 countries and is being adapted for film. Her latest pioneering book Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief combines experiences from her therapy practice, research, and personal life to give concrete strategies to help people heal the anxiety caused by loss.

Watch her at this groundbreaking seminar as she shares the practical techniques, skills and tools you need to take your practice beyond Kübler-Ross’ five stages and help your clients process their grief on a deeper level, manage their anxiety, find relief, and reclaim their lives. Step-by-step guidance will have you fully prepared to employ a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy, deep grief processing, and meditation techniques so you can help your clients unpack their fears about mortality, better bare vulnerability, and get their anxiety under control so they can come to terms with their losses.

Purchase today and breathe a sigh of relief knowing you’ll be prepared to treat anxiety following loss, and bring greater healing to clients facing one of the most difficult things they’ll experience in their lifetime.

Program Information

Objectives

Explore the connection between grief and anxiety and the implications for grief treatment.
Establish how clinicians can better recognize grieving clients who mask their anxiety.
Specify how mindfulness and meditation techniques can restore a sense of calm and interrupt pervasive anxious thoughts.
Characterize how techniques that help clients make amends with lost loved ones can help them overcome guilt driven anxiety.
Specify how personal narratives and grief recovery letters can be utilized in the treatment of grief and anxiety.
Communicate how clinicians can prepare themselves to work with anxiety in a variety of grieving client populations.

Copyright : 17/12/2021

Grief Work in Virtual Settings

We’ve all changed the way we work in the last year. And while we’ve become familiar with the technology and rules surrounding telehealth we still want to do better for our clients.

This recording will help you to up your game when working remotely with grieving clients!

Join grief expert and Fellow in Thanatology Alissa Drescher as provides you with the creative tools and effective online resources you need to master grief work via video conferencing, build your “webside” manner and make your treatment as impactful as possible when working virtually!

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze current research supporting the use of videoconferencing for behavioural interventions across many patient populations and clinical settings.
Investigate how online grief support networks can be used to reduce psychological distress and increase psychosocial benefits for clients.
Evaluate resources that can be used to facilitate the tasks of mourning when working remotely with clients.
Evaluate how distance-technology grief supports can be delivered to support clients with complicated grief.

Treating Grief After Suicide

Suicide survivors don’t come to you because they’re interested in growth. They don’t want to explore new possibilities. They just want to relieve the pain, ease the misery, and make sense of the death. But there’s no life in only asking why. On many levels, there will be no closure.

As clinicians, we can’t help survivors change unless we challenge them to step out and take risks. It’s critical to tap into the client’s potential for resiliency, open them to new possibilities, and walk with them along the path to post-traumatic growth.

Join Rita Schulte, licensed professional counsellor, radio host, author, and suicide survivor to get the skills and strategies you need to transition grieving clients who’ve lost loved ones to suicide from “why?” to “what’s next?”

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze the treatment implications of the unique challenges faced by grieving suicide survivors.
Determine how the meaning clients attach to suicide can impede recovery.
Apply a strengths-based approach to tap into suicide survivors’ potential for resiliency.
Utilize narrative techniques to help suicide survivors make meaning following suicide loss.