About the Event

Cognitive Behavior Institute is excited to welcome Lindsey Venesky, PhD, NCSP for a live interactive webinar on: Supporting Clients Struggling with Grief and Loss

Date: June 23rd, 2023
Time: 10:00am-4:00pm EST
Location: online
Cost: $19.99
Level: Intermediate
Credit Hours: 5 Clinical CEs


Description:
Supporting clients who are struggling with grief and loss can prove to be a unique challenge for many mental health clinicians. These clients’ needs may differ from those who are experiencing other mental health issues and require a specific treatment perspective (Humprey, 2009). There are also a number of theoretical models that can help mental health clinicians gain a greater understanding of how to best support these clients (Kubler-Ross & Kessler, 2005; Martin & Doka, 2000; Stroebe & Schut, 1999). This extended training aims to support mental health professionals as they navigate this unique need in their client populations. Topics will include theoretical models to understand grief and loss, how grief manifests for both adults and children, as well as different types of loss. The diagnosis and assessment of grief and loss within a mental health context will also be explored. Therapeutic techniques specific to addressing grief and loss will be discussed as well as relevant ethical considerations. Further, providing grief therapy can cause added stress on the clinician. As a result, this training will also include a discussion of maintaining appropriate therapeutic boundaries, processing personal issues related to loss, and developing self-care strategies to further support mental health professionals in this important work.

Agenda:
10:00 - 11:15 a.m. - Theory and types of grief
11:15 - 11:25 a.m. - Break
11:25 a.m. - 12:40 p.m. - Diagnosis and assessment
12:40 - 1:20 p.m. - Lunch
1:20 - 2:35 p.m. - Interventions and modalities to address grief
2:35 - 2:45 p.m. - Break
2:45 - 3:15 p.m. - Working with specific populations
3:15 - 4:00 p.m. - Ethical considerations and other relevant treatment factors

Learning Objectives:
Participants will identify cognitive, emotional, and behavioral manifestations of grief and loss in both adult and child clients.

Participants will describe specific therapeutic techniques and processes shown to be effective in supporting clients struggling with grief and loss.

Participants will apply grief counseling theory and therapeutic approaches to case studies.

Participants will explain how to prevent burnout in providing grief therapy through the use of self-care strategies and other appropriate clinical considerations.

Participants will describe ethical considerations critical to grief counseling. 


Instructor Bio:

Dr. Lindsey Venesky currently works as a licensed psychologist and clinical supervisor at Cognitive Behavior Institute. She is also a nationally certified school psychologist. Her professional experiences include working in public schools, community mental health centers, and private practice. Although she has experience working with a wide range of populations and clinical needs, her specific interests include working with children and families as well as addressing grief and trauma.







Course bibliography:

• American Psychiatric Association (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. (5th ed.) American Psychiatric Association.
• Brown, E. J., Amaya-Jackson, L., Cohen, J., Handel, S., De Bocanegra, H. T., Zatta, E., Goodman, R. F., & Mannarino A. (2008). Childhood traumatic grief: A multi-site empirical examination of the construct and its correlates. Death Studies, 32: 899–923. DOI: 10.1080/07481180802440209.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Emergency Responders: Tips for taking care of yourself. Retrieved from: https://emergency.cdc.gov/coping/responders.asp
• Christian, L. G. (1997). Children and death. Young Children, 52(4), 76–80.
• De Jong, P., & Berg, I. K. (2002). Interviewing for solutions (2nd ed.). Wadsworth.
• Doka, K. (Ed.) (1989). Disenfranchised grief: Recovering hidden sorrow. Lexington Books.
• Ener, L., & Ray, D. C. (2018). Exploring characteristics of children presenting to counseling for grief and loss. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27(3), 860-871. https://doi-org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/10.1007/s10826-017-0939-6.
• Dyregrov, A. (2008). Grief with children: A handbook for adults (2nd ed.). Jessica Kingsley.
• Hope, R. M., & Hodge, D. M. (2006). Factors affecting children’s adjustment to the death of a parent: The social work professional’s viewpoint. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 23 (1), 107–126.
• Humphrey, K. M. (2009). Counseling strategies for loss and grief. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.
• Kokou-Kpolou, C. K., Fernández-Alcántara, M., & Cénat, J. M. (2020). Prolonged grief related to COVID-19 deaths: Do we have to fear a steep rise in traumatic and disenfranchised griefs? Psychological Trauma : Theory, Research, Practice and Policy, 12 (1), S94-S95. DOI 10.1037/tra0000798.
• Kubler-Ross, E. & Kessler, D. (2005). On grief and grieving. Scribner
• Kübler-Ross, E. (1969). On death and dying. New York, NY: Macmillan.
• Martin, T., & Doka, K. (2000). Men don’t cry…Women do: Transcending gender stereotypes of grief. Brunner/Mazel.
• Mayland, C. R., Harding, A. J. E., Preston, N., & Payne, S. (2020). Supporting adults bereaved through COVID-19: A rapid review of the impact of previous pandemics on grief and bereavement. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 60(2), e33-e39
• Melhem, N., Moritz, G., Walker, M., & Shear, K. (2007). Phenomenology and correlates of complicated grief in children and adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 46, 493–499.
• Northeast and Caribbean Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network (MHTTC): Tools for Behavioral health Professionals During a Public Health Crisis. Retrieved from: https://mhttcnetwork.org/sites/default/files/2020...
• Peterson, N. L., & Goldberg, R. M. (2016). Creating relationship trees with grieving clients: An experiential approach to grief counseling. Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 11(2), 198-212. http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/10.1080/154013...
• Stroebe, M., & Schut, H. (1999). The dual process model of coping with bereavement: Rationale and description. Death Studies, 23, 197-224.
• Wallace, C. L., Wladkowski, S. P., Gibson, A., & White, P. (2020). Grief during the COVID-19 pandemic: Considerations for Palliative Care Providers. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 60 (1) e70-e76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.04.012
• Webb, N. B. (2011). Helping bereaved children: A handbook for practitioners (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Guilford.
• Webb, N. B. (2015). Family and community contexts of children and adolescents facing crisis or trauma. In N. B. Webb’s (Ed.), Play therapy with children and adolescents in crisis (4th ed.). (pp. 3–21). New York, NY: Guildford.
• White, M., & Epston, D. (1990). Narrative means to therapeutic ends. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.
• Winokuer, H. R., & Harris, D. L. (2016). Principles and practice of grief counseling, Second edition. Springer.
• Wolfelt, A. D., (2016). Counseling skills for companioning the mourner: the fundamentals of effective grief counseling. Companion.
• Wolfelt, A. D. (2013). Finding the words: How to talk with children and teens about death, suicide, funerals, homicide, cremation, and other end-of-life matters. Fort Collins, CO: Companion.
• Wolfelt, A. (1996). Helping the bereaved child: Grief gardening, growth through grief and other touchstones for caregivers. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Worden, J. W. (2002). Grief counseling and grief therapy: A handbook for the mental health practicioner (3rd ed.). Springer. 

Approvals:
Cognitive Behavior Institute, #1771, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Cognitive Behavior Institute maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 6/30/2022-6/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 5 clinical continuing education credits.

Cognitive Behavior Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0098 and the State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0646 and the State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0216.

Cognitive Behavior Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7117. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Cognitive Behavior Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Cognitive Behavior Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Cognitive Behavior Institute maintains responsibility for content of this program. Social workers, marriage and family therapists, and professional counselors in Pennsylvania can receive continuing education from providers approved by the American Psychological Association. Since CBI is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education, licensed social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, and licensed professional counselors in Pennsylvania will be able to fulfill their continuing education requirements by attending CBI continuing education programs. For professionals outside the state of Pennsylvania, you must confirm with your specific State Board that APA approved CE's are accepted towards your licensure requirements. The Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) has a process for approving individual programs or providers for continuing education through their Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. ACE approved providers and individual courses approved by ASWB are not accepted by every state and regulatory board for continuing education credits for social workers. Every US state other than New York accepts ACE approval for social workers in some capacity: New Jersey only accepts individually approved courses for social workers, rather than courses from approved providers. The West Virginia board requires board approval for live courses, but accepts ASWB ACE approval for other courses for social workers. For more information, please see https://www.aswb.org/ace/ace-jurisdiction-map/. Whether or not boards accept ASWB ACE approved continuing education for other professionals such as licensed professional counselors or licensed marriage and family therapists varies by jurisdiction. To determine if a course can be accepted by your licensing board, please review your board’s regulations or contact them. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.

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