Introduction to Loss and Grief Issues: Refreshing Old Skills, Learning New Skills

Loss and grief provide an opportunity to transform deep emotion into healing. In this workshop, you get an overview of recent approaches to grief counseling and focus on key topics in the field, including community violence, long-term illness, sudden death, cross-cultural grief, family grief, children and grief, and somatic aspects of grief.

Guest Speakers:
Claire S. Chow, MFT; The Rev. Peter Yuichi Clark, Ph.D., BCC, ACPE supervisor; David Jull-Patterson, Ph.D.; Joseph Lumello, MA; and Erika Maslan, MFT

Learner Outcomes

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

Understand basics of loss and grief
Recognize situations that provoke grief responses
Build sensitivity to grief manifestations both expressed and unexpressed
Identify and normalize grief responses
Develop and increase empathy in loss and grief work
Recognize the potential transformative powers for grief as healing
Encourage the desire to further learning about all aspects of loss and grief
Learn, develop and build skills and tools for personal wellbeing and client care when working with individuals and communities

Learner Outcomes

Sections

Professional Program in the Study of Loss and Grief

Required Courses

Electives

Notes

Accrediting Associations