Outline

The grieving process.

• Models for understanding grief
  • Older, familiar models
  • Current theories and approaches
• Grief expressions
  • Emotional and cognitive
  • Physical manifestations
  • Behavioral
  • Social behaviors and societal reactions
• Predictors and mediators of the experience
  • Background: grief is highly individual
  • Personality and other vulnerability factors
  • Who died; quality of relationship
  • Social, contextual, and cultural influences
  • Mode of death
  • Other influences
• Non-death losses

There is an assessment and analysis of gout-related symptoms.

• Differential diagnosis between depression, grief, and PTSD
• Persistent complex bereavement disorder
• Use of adjustment disorder diagnosis with grief clients
• Measurement/assessment of grief symptoms

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• Common trajectories for grief
• What is “complicated” grief and how do you recognize it?
• Treatment interventions for complicated grief

There are treatment strategies and functions.

• Grief counseling
  • How is it different from other types of counseling?
  • Who often benefits (and who may not)?
• Components of a general approach
  • The 3 Rogerian conditions
  • Power of presence
  • Being a companion/therapist for your grief clients
• Cross-cultural and other diversity considerations
• Dealing with emotional intensity
• Grief vs. trauma
• When clients’ grief is disenfranchised
• Working with couples or families who have experienced the “same” loss
• Preparing for grief “spikes”
• Post-traumatic growth

Being a hardship is what I am.

• The risks and joys of this work
• Self-awareness
• Self-care
• Training opportunities in this field

There are limits to the research and potential risks.

• Disparity in results across studies for grief
• Risk factors for complicated grief