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Grief Treatment: Current Evidence Based Approaches to Care Across the Lifespan
Program Information
Objectives
- Examine current models of grief theory that go beyond the five stages and the treatment implications of each model.
- Distinguish the unique experience created by different types of loss in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
- Evaluate a client’s understanding of death and response to grief from a developmental perspective across the lifespan.
- Determine how grief impacts the family system (individually and together), and how to better equip them to support each other in grief.
- Evaluate current and cutting-edge modalities used to treat typical and complicated grief in the clinical setting.
- Prepare specific creative counseling interventions that engage the individual, couple or family in the process of grief.
Outline
Grief Theory Beyond Kübler-Ross
- Tasks of Mourning
- Dual Process Model of Coping
- Continuing Bonds Theory
- Grief and Attachment Theory
- Potential criteria for “Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder”
- Two creative interventions articulating these theories
Circumstances of Bereavement
- Implications of Specific losses
- Pre-loss factors
- Relationship influence
- Type of and proximity to death
- Disenfranchised losses
- Living losses
Grief Counseling Strategies Across the Lifespan
- Childhood and adolescence
- The occurrence of grief
- Developmental understanding of death
- Grief responses and adaptation to loss
- Six creative age appropriate interventions
- Young and middle adulthood
- Grief circumstances
- Life stages and individual needs
- Assessments and interventions
- Family Systems
- The family narrative
- Use the Internal Family Systems Approach
- Six creative interventions appropriate for middle adulthood
- Older adulthood
- Type of loss
- Grief responses and perception of death
- Treatment strategies based on developmental needs
- Six creative interventions specific for older adults
Grief Treatment – Current Evidence-Based Approach to Care
- Typical Trajectory Griever
- Limitations to grief counselling/assessing effectiveness
- Assessment tools
- Expressive arts
- Companioning model
- Therapeutic presence
- Narrative therapy
- Creating space for suffering
- Limitations of the client-centred approach
- Complicated Griever
- Assessment tools
- CBT
- Complicated Grief Treatment Model
- Grief and trauma intervention
- Meaning reconstruction
- Ethical Considerations
- Socio-cultural context
- Gender bias
- Pitfalls in treating the family system
- Grief in the digital universe
- Spirituality and grief
- Personal death anxiety
- Countertransference
- The wounded healer
- Occupational stress
- The grieving therapist
- Self-care
Copyright :
05/02/2020
Grief in the DSM-5: The Most Recent Diagnostic Guidelines
Program Information
Objectives
- Investigate the history of how bereavement has been addressed in previous Diagnostic and Statistics Manuals (DSM).
- Evaluate why the bereavement exclusion was removed from the diagnosis of major depressive disorder in the DSM-5.
- Apply diagnostic criteria from the DSM-5 to diagnose uncomplicated and complicated bereavement.
- Analyze the diagnostic criteria for prolonged grief disorder and characterize how it relates to clinical practice.
Outline
Grief in Previous DSM’s
- History of how bereavement has been addressed
- Why changes were needed
Change in ICD-11
- Prolonged grief disorder
- Diagnostic criteria
Grief in the DSM-5: Changes and Diagnosis
- Elimination of the bereavement exclusion criterion for major depressive disorder
- Research regarding complicated grief
- Persistent complex bereavement disorder in the DSM-5
- How to diagnose complicated and uncomplicated bereavement using the DSM-5
A Look Ahead
- Why Prolonged Grief Disorder in the DSM is needed in clinical practice
- Proposed criteria
Copyright :
12/02/2021