Outline

There are interventions that can shape grief.

Anticipatory grief.

• Treatment strategies
• Tools for normalizing anticipatory grief for the patient/client

The children are in grief.

• Tools for preparing for the loss
• Interventions for coping enhancement for funerals
• The forgotten grievers
• Learn the truth about children going to funerals and open caskets

Complicated grief.

• Simplifying the model
• Murder, multiple losses, sudden death, suicide
• Alzheimer’s

There are explanations of different types of grief.

• Delayed
• Disenfranchised
• Ambiguous
• Inconclusive
• Complicated
• Average response
• Resilience

Forgiveness.

• Learn alternatives to forgiveness
• Understand when it works and why it doesn’t
• Learn techniques your client can use to actually find forgiveness

The grief of suicide.

• Understand how grief of suicide is different
• Learn techniques for releasing feelings of responsibility
• Tools for healing grief after suicide

The body and grief.

• Help understand how we hold grief in our body
• Learn techniques your client can use to get in touch with residual grief in the body
• Understand the ways the body remembers

Trauma

• How we often re-traumatize ourselves in grief
• Learn the difference between releasing grief and replaying traumatic events
• How vicarious trauma can affect the clinician

Positive psychology and grief.

• Learn how positive psychology can be used in healing grief
• Understand why clients may treat themselves harshly in grief
• Learn new ways to decrease suffering after a loss

Pet Loss

• Learn why pet loss is just as significant as other losses
• Understand why clients may not reveal loss of a pet
• Learn new ways to help with feelings of exaggerated responsibility

Clinicians working with loss need self-care.

• Learn how to take care of ourselves when being surrounded by loss
• Understand why we sometimes over identify with clients
• Understand if it’s helpful to self-disclose about the clinicians loss

Supporting friends and family in grief.

• Learn what to say and what not to say
• Understand proven strategies that will help clients heal themselves while not getting lost in others’ grief
• Tools for normalizing anticipatory grief for the patient/client

Tools for the Clinician to help their clients.

• Bullycide
• Anniversaries
• Holidays – the seen and unseen
• Birthdays

Disasters and how we deal with them.

• Shootings/hurricanes/earthquakes and terrorist acts
• Techniques for approaching horrific crime and/or disaster scenes
• The impact of natural vs. manmade disasters