Name: Counseling Clients with a Grief and Loss Narrative
Start: 2025-05-02T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-02T16:00:00-05:00
Location: 4555 Trousdale Dr

Counseling Clients with a Grief and Loss Narrative

This training will provide a comprehensive overview of grief and bereavement theories.
About this Event

This training will provide a comprehensive overview of grief and bereavement theories, focusing on the physical and psychosocial effects of loss on individuals and family systems. Participants will explore key factors influencing adaptive and complicated grief responses and learn to identify signs of complicated grief. The training will also cover evidence-based interventions designed to improve clinical outcomes for grieving clients. Attendees will gain practical strategies to help clients transition from fight, flight, or freeze.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain relevant theories and models describing the physical and psychosocial effects of loss, grief, and mourning on the individual and family system.

2. Compare factors that influence adaptive and complicated reactions to dying and loss.

3. Analyze the efficacy of various treatment interventions for complicated grief to improve clinical outcomes.

4. Utilize clinical strategies to assist grieving clients in the move from fight/flight or freeze to social engagement in sessions and in their daily living.