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2-Day Grief Summit 2023 - Webcast

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2-Day Grief Summit 2023

2-Day Grief Summit 2023
When:
Thursday, April 13, 2023 - Friday, April 14, 2023
Non-Death Losses: How the Grief We Don’t Call Grief Applies to Every Client

Most people think grief only relates to death. As such, so many discount and judge their loss experiences as "no big deal." But now more than ever clinicians are discovering that the grief inherent in daily life has a huge impact on our clients, regardless of why they’re seeking support or treatment. In this session Megan will show you how to recognize grief unrelated to death, change the culture about how we view these non-death losses and give you clinical solutions for improving support and connection.
Ambiguous Loss in Narcissistic Relationships: Clinical Skills to Process the Unresolved Grief of Estrangement

Grief and loss hits clients recovering from narcissistic abuse on multiple levels. From grieving a childhood of abuse and neglect to mourning the loss of the rosy-colored glasses that allowed victims to stay in a cycle of abuse – grief echoes through all corners of the adult child of a narcissist’s life. In this session you’ll join narcissistic abuse expert and best-selling author Amy Marlow-MacCoy, LPC as she gives you the skills and tools you need to recognize grief in a client’s anger, help them identify the losses of the past, present, and future, and come to terms with the ambiguity of grieving a person or relationship that may never be peacefully resolved.
This Didn’t Go as Planned: Practical Approaches to Validate and Process Reproductive Grief

Pregnancy loss, reproductive challenges such as infertility, birth trauma or the experience of a perinatal mental health disorder leave millions of people each year feeling "this wasn’t supposed to be this way." Left to sort through the resulting grief that’s seldomly validated by society, they can find themselves in your office looking to make sense of it all and find a way forward. In this session, you’ll join expert Dr. Julie Bindeman as she shows you how you can validate these clients’ losses and help them cope with practical strategies you can start using immediately in your practice.
The Unseen Losses of Sexual Violence: TF-CBT and Grief Work to Restore Clients Sense of Hope, Self-Acceptance and More

Survivors of sexual assault have lost so much. Their sense of safety, trust and control have been robbed from them. Their very sense of identity taken as they griever for the person they were, and the person they might have been had ‘that" not happened. Whether your clients’ pain is fresh or decades old, this session will show you how to incorporate grief work into your treatment to help survivors come to terms with what happened, overcome their guilt that can cohabitate with grief, regain their sense of control and heal.
Mother Loss: Interventions for Clients with Relationships from Unbreakable to Fractured

From clients who’ve lost the biggest source of support in their lives, to those with broken maternal bonding from neglect, abuse, or abandonment, mother loss affect clients’ sense of identity, relationships, and overall sense of place in the world. Join therapist and best-selling author Claire Bidwell Smith as she combines her personal experience of losing her mother as a teenager with almost two decades of working closely with this population to give you clinical tools and interventions you need to help clients feel whole, restore their sense of worth, and heal.
Complicated Spiritual Grief: Assessment and Treatment

Faith, religion, and spirituality can be a supportive and comforting resource following the loss of anyone or anything that leaves a sense of deprivation and yearning. However, for some people their relationships to a higher power and/or spiritual community are painfully wounded, leading to the secondary loss of their spiritual resources, connections, and spiritual crisis. In this session you’ll learn to recognize the impact of complicated spiritual grief on the bereaved’s grieving process and increase your skills in conducting a comprehensive clinical assessment and development of effective treatment plans.
The Grief Nobody Talks About: Counseling Strategies for Families Facing the Losses of Addiction

It’s a silent grief nobody talks about. Buried in shame, despair and fear; families living with addiction experience deep ambiguous and non-finite grief. Watching helplessly, the hopes they had for their futures dissolve before their eyes. Unrecognizable from the person they knew, families can even feel like their loved one has already died. Join Litsa Williams therapist and author of What’s Your Grief? Lists to Help You Through Any Loss as she shows you the specific strategies and techniques you need to counsel the families of those with addictions and design treatment plans that address the distinctively challenging emotional and relational aspects of these losses.
The Grief of Medical Trauma, Injury and Illness: Strategies and Supports for Coping and Adaptation

A line forever between what was and what will be, those impacted by medical trauma and chronic illnesses feel every loss. Struck with a sudden or gradual forfeiture of abilities, independence, self-esteem, freedom, comfort, hope and so much more, the grief of what has been taken from them can make a path forward seem unattainable. In this timely session, Dr. Sacha McBain will show you how clinicians can work with the grief that often follows medical trauma, help clients cope with and adapt to their losses, and support them as they shape a new sense of identity and purpose for themselves.
Non-Death Losses: How the Grief We Don’t Call Grief Applies to Every Client

  1. Differentiate the features and corresponding clinical impacts of grief that occurs in non-death losses from grief that occurs in death-related losses.
  2. Develop a case conceptualization that accounts for the impacts of everyday stressors and non-death losses.
  3. Apply interventions for grief support in non-death loss scenarios.
Ambiguous Loss in Narcissistic Relationships: Clinical Skills to Process the Unresolved Grief of Estrangement

  1. Differentiate ambiguous loss from other losses and identify relevant clinical implications.
  2. Apply the theory of ambiguous loss to clinical cases involving emotional abuse and estrangement.
  3. Support clients in exploring all dimensions of grief work, coping with past, present and future losses.
  4. Analyze how guilt and shame can complicate grief, particularly when a client’s estranged loved one dies and they are unable to achieve resolution.
  5. Employ a past, present and future perspective to treatment to help clients manage the pain of the past, find closure, and envisions a future after the "death" of a relationship.
  6. Apply evidence-informed techniques for promoting resilience in circumstances of ambiguous loss in the context of estrangement or the end of abusive relationships.
This Didn’t Go as Planned: Practical Approaches to Validate and Process Reproductive Grief

  1. Assess for disenfranchised losses that can occur within the reproductive years.
  2. Develop treatment plans that include normalization and contextualization of these kinds of reproductive losses.
  3. Utilize strategies to help clients manage the myriad of feelings that are experienced within the framework of reproductive loss.
The Unseen Losses of Sexual Violence: TF-CBT and Grief Work to Restore Clients Sense of Hope, Self-Acceptance and More

  1. Assess if grief is actively present due to sexual trauma in clients.
  2. Utilize 2-3 interventions to help grieving clients improve their level of functioning due to sexual trauma.
  3. Apply grounding techniques for symptom management of acute grief due to sexual trauma.
Mother Loss: Interventions for Clients with Relationships from Unbreakable to Fractured

  1. Analyze how estrangement can complicate the grieving process for clients and identify associated clinical implications.
  2. Utilize narrative strategies to support clients in managing reactivated grief years or decades after a loss.
  3. Apply mindfulness interventions to help clients manage health anxiety that can emerge after losing their mother.
Complicated Spiritual Grief: Assessment and Treatment

  1. Analyze how complicated spiritual grief is experienced and expressed in clients.
  2. Utilize a bereavement-specific measure to assess clients for complicated spiritual grief following loss.
  3. Utilize clinical interventions that alleviate bereavement distress and support clients in making sense of losses during spiritual crises.
The Grief Nobody Talks About: Counseling Strategies for Families Facing the Losses of Addiction

  1. Analyze the dynamics of nonfinite grief and ambiguous loss for family members of those with addictive addictions.
  2. Use practical, evidence-informed skill building to increase psychological flexibility and tolerance of ambiguity in clients who have family members with active addictions.
  3. Use reconstruction, sense-making, and redefinition of hope for family members of those with active addiction.
The Grief of Medical Trauma, Injury and Illness: Strategies and Supports for Coping and Adaptation

  1. Utilize the ecological model of medical trauma to develop a trauma-informed case formulation.
  2. Tailor trauma-informed and trauma-focused treatments to address the unique loss and grief experienced by medical trauma survivors and their families.
  3. Utilize clinical strategies from the fields of health and rehabilitation psychology to target health-related factors that contribute to difficulty with adjustment to illness or injury and perpetuate complicated grief.
Non-Death Losses: How the Grief We Don’t Call Grief Applies to Every Client

  • Grief beyond death: recognizing grief unrelated to death
  • Moral distress, chronic illness, everyday stressors and more
  • Changing the culture: how all clinical issues are grief issues
  • Clinical responses to non-death losses, interactions and experiences
Ambiguous Loss in Narcissistic Relationships: Clinical Skills to Process the Unresolved Grief of Estrangement

  • Ambiguous losses in the context of abuse
  • The grief of the past – the childhood that happened and the one that didn’t
  • Grieving the present and future – helping clients come to terms with what is
  • Clinical skills to process grief that occurs in relationships that end or change due to estrangement
  • Risks, limitations and challenges
This Didn’t Go as Planned: Practical Approaches to Validate and Process Reproductive Grief

  • Disenfranchised grief and reproductive trauma
  • The unseen losses of infertility, pregnancy loss, birth trauma, and perinatal mental health disorders
  • How clinicians can help clients recognize and label these losses (even those in the distant past)
  • Strategies to help normalize and process reproductive losses
  • Research, risk and limitations
The Unseen Losses of Sexual Violence: TF-CBT and Grief Work to Restore Clients Sense of Hope, Self-Acceptance and More

The impact of sexual trauma
  • Is it Grief or Depression?
  • Concrete losses and abstract losses
Interventions to navigate grief due to sexual assault
  • Self Acceptance Activities
  • Trigger Monitoring Diary
  • Responsibility pie chart from TFCBT
Grounding Techniques for triggers and acute grief
Mother Loss: Interventions for Clients with Relationships from Unbreakable to Fractured

  • How losing a mother impacts attachment, identity and sense of place in the world
  • What most therapists miss
  • How estrangement complicates grief
  • Practical narrative strategies for working with reactivated "old" grief
  • Imposter syndrome in women who’ve experienced mother loss
  • Mindfulness interventions for health anxiety and more
Complicated Spiritual Grief: Assessment and Treatment

How to make the distinction between religion and spirituality
  • Clarifying how religion and spirituality differ
  • Learn how religion and spirituality relate to one’s self-concept and worldview
Exploring how grief is a spiritual crisis
  • Why bereavement can lead to questioning one’s faith or belief system
How grief can be a catalyst for spiritual growth?
  • Loss leading a person into a search for meaning and purpose
Defining complicated spiritual grief

How complicated spiritual grief is experienced and expressed
  • How does complicated spiritual grief actually affect the griever?
  • The impact of complicated spiritual grief on one’s connection to a higher power or meaning
  • How one’s spiritual community may exacerbate complex spiritual grief
  • Complex spiritual grief and the impact on religious practices
How to help clients who are struggling with religious and spiritual crisis
  • Using the Inventory of Spiritual Grief 2.0
  • Clinical interventions
  • Research, risks and limitations
The Grief Nobody Talks About: Counseling Strategies for Families Facing the Losses of Addiction

  • Ambiguous loss and nonfinite grief in the context of addiction
  • Therapeutic framework and goals of counseling with families of those with addictions
  • Barriers to support and effective interventions
  • Collaborative treatment planning
  • Intervention and skill-building
    • Dialectical thinking for tempering mastery and redefining meaning
    • Bruce and Schultz psychoeducational interventions
    • Identity loss and reconstruction
    • ’Making-sense’ as meaning
    • Identifying present-moment hope
  • Risks, research and limitations
The Grief of Medical Trauma, Injury and Illness: Strategies and Supports for Coping and Adaptation

  • Overview of medical trauma
  • Aspects of medical trauma that may elicit grief and/or loss
  • Assessing for medical trauma and disenfranchised grief
  • Strategies to support adjustments to injury or illness
  • Risks, research and limitation

MULTIPLE SPEAKERS

Breakdown for Continuing Education Credits by Event
[+] [-] Non-Death Losses: How the Grief We Don’t Call Grief Applies to Every Client
[+] [-] Ambiguous Loss in Narcissistic Relationships: Clinical Skills to Process the Unresolved Grief of Estrangement
[+] [-] This Didn't Go as Planned: Practical Approaches to Validate and Process Reproductive Grief
[+] [-] The Unseen Losses of Sexual Violence: TF-CBT and Grief Work to Restore Clients Sense of Hope, Self-Acceptance and More
[+] [-] Mother Loss: Interventions for Clients with Relationships from Unbreakable to Fractured
[+] [-] Complicated Spiritual Grief: Assessment and Treatment
[+] [-] The Grief Nobody Talks About: Counseling Strategies for Families Facing the Losses of Addiction
[+] [-] The Grief of Medical Trauma, Injury and Illness: Strategies and Supports for Coping and Adaptation
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