Core Skills and Techniques of Grief Therapy

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*Registration payment includes Credit Cards and Interfund Transfers ONLY.

Target Audience

Social workers, psychologists, licensed professional counselors, educators, school personnel, mental health professionals, marriage and family counselors, clinicians, health and human service practitioners, and other health care professionals.

Description

This course examines key concepts related to the field of bereavement. Topics will include: current conceptualization of the grief process, contexts of grieving, challenges in bereavement, and grief in a global perspective. The course will provide participants with the knowledge that will enable them to work more effectively with grieving individuals, couples, families or groups coping with loss. This workshop is a foundation course that is based on the latest research, theoretical approaches, and best clinical practices in the field of Thanatology. The course will provide participants with a solid knowledge base in the area of bereavement. It is intended for professionals, volunteers, and support staff who work with the critically ill, the dying, or the bereaved.

Speaker
Howard Winokuer, PhD, FT
The Winokuer Center for Counseling and Healing

Charlotte AHEC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5096. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Charlotte AHEC is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

Objectives

• Understand how grief is conceptualized
• Describe how bereavement affects different populations
• Recognize how non-finite losses also cause grief in individuals
• Understand how anticipatory grief affects the grief process
• To understand the difference in normal and atypical grief reactions
• To recognize the signs that indicate that grief is complicated.

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