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Digital Seminar

Grief Certification Training: Attachment-Based Treatment with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)


Faculty:
Leanne Campbell, PhD
Duration:
12 Hours 40 Minutes
Copyright:
24 Feb, 2025
Product Code:
POS150009
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

There may not be a roadmap for grieving …

… but there IS one for transformational, evidence-based grief treatment!

Where other grief approaches rely on integrative strategies that sometimes feel random and disconnected, EFIT provides a set of practical, easy-to-use interventions rooted in attachment science to guide clients from loss into growth and resilience.

Based on Dr. Sue Johnson’s groundbreaking work, EFIT is a comprehensive approach that helps you widen your client’s window of tolerance for emotion, shift negative coping cycles, work with core vulnerabilities, unblock barriers to the natural grief process, and more.

And now you can learn EFIT directly from Dr. Leanne Campbell, training partner and co-author with the late Dr. Sue Johnson of A Primer for Emotionally Focused Therapy, who has trained tens of thousands of clinicians in this powerful approach.

Through a carefully curated mix of didactic instruction and moving case examples, Dr. Campbell will show you how to create powerful corrective emotional experiences to transform the intensely painful emotions that threaten to overwhelm your clients.

Best of all, this training will give you the knowledge and tools you need to become a Certified Grief Informed Professional* - and we’ll cover the cost of your application fee!

Whether you’re treating anticipatory grief, traumatic grief, or even non-death losses, you’ll get a flexible approach that moves clients toward resilience and growth, all while earning certification.

PURCHASE TODAY!

*Professional standards apply. Visit au.evgcert.com/cgp for professional requirements.

CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE

  • No hidden fees – PESI pays for your application fee (a $99.99 USD value)!
  • Simply watch the video and the post-event evaluation included in this training, and your application to be a Certified Grief Informed Professional through Evergreen Certifications is complete*

Attendees will receive documentation of CGP designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following the program.
*Professional standards apply. Visit
au.evgcert.com/cgp  for professional requirements.

 

 

CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



CPD

PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 12.75 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



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Faculty

Leanne Campbell, PhD's Profile

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Leanne Campbell, PhD, is a registered psychologist, author, researcher, and co-founder and managing partner of Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group. As an ICEFT (International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy) Certified Trainer, Dr. Campbell has spent over 30 years providing psychological services to individuals, couples, and families while training professionals worldwide in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), with a particular focus on grief and trauma.

She is the co-author of A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Growth and Fitness in Every Client, written with the late Dr. Sue Johnson, and also contributed to Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook (2nd Edition). Dr. Campbell’s dedication to advancing EFT principles and her commitment to helping others grow through emotionally focused interventions have made her a foremost authority in the field.  

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: T. Leanne Campbell maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: T. Leanne Campbell is a board member International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She is a member of the Canadian Psychological Association, the College of Psychologists of British Columbia, and the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.

 


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Objectives

  1. Identify the attachment perspective on emotional health.
  2. Define the features of complicated and prolonged grief.
  3. Differentiate the role of the therapist in EFIT with grieving clients.
  4. Develop a therapeutic alliance utilising principles from attachment science.
  5. Utilise attachment theory principles to conduct a case conceptualisation for grief.
  6. Identify barriers to the natural grief process.
  7. Evaluate the three stages of the EFIT model to inform clinical treatment interventions for grief-related symptoms.
  8. Choose three interventions focused on reflecting and understanding grief-related emotions.
  9. Utilise the CARE model to contextualise clients’ loss experiences withing their attachment history.
  10. Develop imaginal encounters to evoke adaptive emotion.
  11. Choose self-care strategies as a mental health professional working with grieving clients.
  12. Identify strategies to mitigate two ethical issues related to work with grieving clients.

Outline

Grief as Altered Attachment
How the model known for love also deals with loss
  • The attachment view of loss and love
  • Continuing bonds after loss
  • The view of self in relationship
  • Organic model of growth and change
  • Death, dying, and mourning
  • Grief trajectories and the key role of resilience
  • Implications for specific types of losses
    • Anticipatory loss
    • Traumatic loss
    • Non-death loss
  • The context of pre- and post-loss factors
  • Normal grief, complicated grief, prolonged grief
Guide to Early Sessions
Make assessments process-oriented and therapeutic
  • The role of the therapist in EFIT
  • Elements of a safe-haven alliance and how to create one
  • Case conceptualisation of grief from the EFIT model
  • Help clients tell the story of their loss
  • How to increase awareness and openness to emotion
  • Identify emotional “handles”
  • Top strategies for working with core vulnerability
  • Attune to CARE – context, attachment, relationship, emotion
  • Monitor and widen clients’ window of tolerance for emotion
  • Pacing and safety considerations
  • How to spot blocks in the grieving process
  • Regret and guilt, forgiveness and reconciliation
  • Developmental and life stage considerations
  • Understand clients’ cultural identities
  • The role of spirituality in grief
  • Suicide risk assessment
Stabilisation, Restructuring, and Consolidation
EFIT stages and interventions
  • The EFIT “Tango” sequence of macro interventions
  • Key goals of stabilisation during grief
  • How to do reflections, reframes, and interpretations right
  • Mirror and reflect the clients’ experience
  • Assist clients in identifying and deepening grief-related emotion
  • Choose key defining grief-related experiences to explore
  • Create emotional balance with choreographed imaginal encounters
  • Revise how clients see themselves and attachment figures
  • Shift negative cycles of coping
  • Case studies
Additional Considerations
  • Walk alongside versus intervening
  • Ethical and professional issues
    • Boundaries of competence
    • Work with children and families
    • Grief in the terminally ill
    • End-of-life decisions
  • Self-care for the grief professional
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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