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Healing Grief Card Deck + Heal Your Heart After Grief and On Grief and Grieving DVD
Package - Video
$416.97 USD
$344.99
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Product Details
Format:
Package - Video   Instructions
Author:
DAVID KESSLER, MA, RN, FACHE
Publisher:
PESI Inc.
Copyright:
1/26/2016
CE Available:
Yes, See CE credit tab for complete continuing education details
Product Code:
RVKIT051105
Objectives
[+] [-] 049945 - David Kessler On Grief & Grieving
  1. Explore the dynamics of different types of grief and the healing processes associated with each.
  2. Specify age appropriate grieving milestones that occur across the lifespan.
  3. Articulate the somatic response to grief and identify how to manage residual grief in the body.
  4. Consider why children are often the “forgotten grievers” and identify strategies for helping this population.
  5. Analyze the efficacy of positive psychology interventions in treating grief.
  6. Ascertain the relationship between traumatic events and grief as it relates to the healing process.

[+] [-] 050945 - Heal Your Heart After Grief: Help Your Clients Find Peace After Break-Ups, Divorce, Death and Other Losses
  1. Utilize grief coping strategies to improve client level of functioning.
  2. Discuss clinical strategies to reduce feelings of betrayal in clients.
  3. Outline the stages of grief to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
  4. Recognize the clinical implications of grief on children and adolescents.
  5. Communicate disaster and crime coping techniques to improve client level of functioning.
  6. Analyze effective and ineffective models for family coping and integration as it relates to treatment outcomes.

Outline
[+] [-] 049945 - David Kessler On Grief & Grieving

Interventions that can Shape Grief

Anticipatory Grief

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

Children in Grief

  • Tools for preparing for the loss
  • Intervention 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

Explanations of 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 a 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

Self-care for Clinician Working with Loss

  • 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 losses

Successfully Supporting Friends and Family Members 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 Clients Cope with

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

Disasters and How We Cope

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

[+] [-] 050945 - Heal Your Heart After Grief: Help Your Clients Find Peace After Break-Ups, Divorce, Death and Other Losses
Inner World of Grief
  • The role of dreams and their archetypes
  • Navigate the loss and replacement of roles in loss
  • Use of Life Beliefs in healing grief
  • Dealing with secrets that may be revealed after loss
Divorce
  • Reinterpreting and reframing divorce
  • Healing shame around divorce
  • Children and divorce
Break-Ups
  • Help your client understand the ways they were taught to love
  • Interpret reoccurring patterns
  • What lessons can bring about healing
  • The lies we tell ourselves after a relationship ends
Betrayal
  • How much information is good to share?
  • Taking responsibility for actions
  • How to move on afterward
  • The cost to the soul of betrayal
After Cancer
  • Heal mentally after medical recovery
  • Deal with fears of reoccurrence
  • Ways to find peace again with one’s own body
Other Losses
  • Honoring and heal from a pets death
  • The assumptions we make about our children and releasing them
  • Understand the benefits and burdens about the idealize mate
  • Job loss and home loss
Anticipatory Grief
  • Treatment strategies
  • Tools for normalizing anticipatory grief for the patient/client
Deathbed Visions and Their Impact on Grief
  • Effective and ineffective models for family coping and integration
  • Clinical/palliative care studies, research of near death awareness
  • Using the law to normalize the dying experience
Kübler Ross Stages Revisited and Updated for 2014
  • The possibility of a sixth stage?
  • Interpreting the relevancy of the stages today
Children in Grief
  • Tools for preparing for the loss
  • Intervention for coping enhancement for funerals
  • The forgotten grievers
Complicated Grief
  • Simplifying the model
  • Murder, multiple losses, sudden death, suicide, Alzheimers
Disasters and How We Cope
  • Shootings/hurricanes/earthquakes and terrorists acts
  • Techniques for approaching horrific crime and/or disaster scenes
  • Helping survivors coping with suffering
Tools for the Clinician to Help Clients Cope with:
  • Anniversaries
  • Holidays – the seen and unseen
  • Birthdays

Author

DAVID KESSLER, MA, RN, FACHE

DAVID KESSLER, MA, RN, FACHE David Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on grief and loss. His experience with thousands of people on the edge of life and death has taught him the secrets to living a happy and fulfilled life, even after life’s tragedies.

He is the author of six books, including his latest bestselling book, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief. He co-authored two books with Elisabeth Kubler Ross, Life Lessons and On Grief and Grieving, updating her 5 stages for grief. He also co-wrote, You Can Heal Your Heart with Louise Hay. He authored Visions Trips and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See Before You Die. His first book, The Needs of The Dying received praise from Saint (Mother) Teresa.

David’s personal experience as a child witnessing a mass shooting while his mother was dying in a hospital helped him begin his journey. For most of his life, David has taught physicians, nurses, counselors, police, and first responders about the end of life, trauma, and grief. However, despite his vast knowledge of grief, his life was turned upside down by the sudden death of his twenty-one-year-old son.

David’s volunteer work includes being a founding member of Project Angel Food, a well-known and loved non-profit organization. He currently serves on the board of The Farrah Fawcett Foundation which provides cancer research, patient assistance, and prevention efforts. He also serves as Specialist Reserve for the Los Angeles Police as well as having served on the Red Cross’s disaster services team.

He has a new online model of grief support called Tender Hearts with over 25 groups each as well as one of the most respected Grief Certification programs. He is the founder of www.grief.com, which receives millions of visits yearly providing helpful resources to over 167 countries. Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: David Kessler is the is the co-founder and President Emeritus of Project Angel Food. He is a published author and receives royalties. David Kessler receives a speaking honorarium and recording and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: David Kessler is a board member for the Farrah Fawcett Foundation. He is a team member of the Health Care Executives of Southern California, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Red Cross.
Continuing Education Credits Awarded for Completion of Entire Package
[+] [-] Combined Continuing Education Credit From All Components
Breakdown of Continuing Education Credits by Components
[+] [-] 049945 - David Kessler On Grief & Grieving
[+] [-] 050945 - Heal Your Heart After Grief: Help Your Clients Find Peace After Break-Ups, Divorce, Death and Other Losses
[+] [-] 084295 - Healing Grief Card Deck
Audience
Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Nurses, Case Managers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Chaplains/Clergy, Hospitals, Palliative Care Services, Other Mental Health Professionals, Chaplains/Clergy and other Mental Health Professionals
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