Grief Treatment: A Certification Training on Evidence-Based Approaches to Care Across the Lifespan – Alissa Drescher and Christina Zampitella

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Wouldn’t it be great if grief came wrapped up in a tidy little package? What if we could watch grief progress in a predictable, linear fashion, following set and pre-determined timelines?

Unfortunately, grief just does not work that way.

In our society, where people hesitate to talk openly about death and dying, it is crucial that individuals have a place to go where they feel safe to grieve — a place where they can find comfort.

This is where you come in.

While the 5 Stages of Grief model has proven beneficial at helping us understand grief, this model is oversimplified. As care professionals, we need more than the 5 Stages of Grief to truly help our clients.

Much more.

Now you can access a whole new approach to grief work. In this exclusive online certification training, you will learn evidence-based grief strategies and treatment methods that you can use with clients across the lifespan.

You’ll join bereavement expert Alissa Dresher, MA, LPC, as she moves you through powerful training videos that incorporate her own personal experiences with profound loss — giving you a solid foundation for you to grow your expertise.

Register today and build your confidence as a grief counselor — in just six hours.

PS – You’ll end this course with the education you need to become a Certified Grief Counseling Specialist. And for a limited time your certification application is included FREE with your registration.

Imagine how you will feel…

…once you complete the course, secure your certification, and move forward in your practice as a Certified Grief Counseling Specialist.

• Watch clients grow and evolve as they process loss
• Help your clients understand their emotions and the phases of grief
• Understand the different ways people grieve and how to support them during the most difficult times
• Feel more confident as you start your day equipped with more tools and plans to support clients where they are
• Expand your ability to provide grief counseling services via telehealth modalities

Certification Made Simple

In just three easy steps, you will become a Certified Grief Counseling Specialist (CGCS)

Step 1: Watch the online course.

Step 2: Complete the CE test and instantly print your certificate of completion.

Step 3: Submit your certificate of completion and professional license to Evergreen Certifications.

Course Outline

Grief Theory Beyond Kübler-Ross

• Tasks of Mourning
• Dual Process Model of Coping
• Continuing Bonds Theory
• Grief and Attachment Theory
• Potential criteria for “Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder”
• Two creative interventions articulating these theories

Circumstances of Bereavement

• Implications of Specific losses
  • Pre-loss factors
  • Relationship influence
  • Type of and proximity to death
  • Disenfranchised losses
  • Living losses

Grief Counseling Strategies Across the Lifespan

• Childhood and adolescence
  • The occurrence of grief
  • Developmental understanding of death
  • Grief responses and adaptation to loss
  • Six creative age appropriate interventions
• Young and middle adulthood
  • Grief circumstances
  • Life stages and individual needs
  • Assessments and interventions
  • Family Systems
    • The family narrative
    • Use the Internal Family Systems Approach
  • Six creative interventions appropriate for middle adulthood
• Older adulthood
  • Type of loss
  • Grief responses and perception of death
  • Treatment strategies based on developmental needs
  • Six creative interventions specific for older adults

Grief Treatment – Current Evidence-Based Approach to Care

• Typical Trajectory Griever
  • Limitations to grief counseling/assessing effectiveness
  • Assessment tools
  • Expressive arts
  • Companioning model
  • Therapeutic presence
  • Narrative therapy
  • Creating space for suffering
  • Limitations of the client-centered approach
• Complicated Griever
  • Assessment tools
  • CBT
  • Complicated Grief Treatment Model
  • Grief and trauma intervention
  • Meaning reconstruction
• Ethical Considerations
  • Socio-cultural context
  • Gender bias
  • Pitfalls in treating the family system
  • Grief in the digital universe
  • Spirituality and grief
  • Personal death anxiety
  • Countertransference
  • The wounded healer
  • Occupational stress
  • The grieving therapist
  • Self-care

Sign up today and receive these two FREE Bonus Items

Bonus 1: Grief in the DSM-5®: Changes in Diagnosing Grief-Related Disorders (A $59.99 value)

Featuring Christina Zampitella, Psy.D., FT, Psychologist and Thanatologist, this 90-minute video discusses bereavement-related DSM-5® changes:

• The bereavement exclusion in major depressive disorder
• Uncomplicated grief
• Specified trauma and stressor related disorders
• The proposed diagnosis of complicated grief

You will learn, based on empirical research, why the DSM-5® changes were needed, what the implications of those changes are in clinical practice, and how those implications can enhance or detract from differential bereavement assessments. Also discussed are the reason why the changes remain problematic and what the implications are for future DSM® editions.

Bonus 2: Your Certified Grief Counseling Specialist (CGCS) Application is FREE! (A $99.99 value)

1. Let clients and peers know you have the training to provide the best tools and strategies for improving clinical outcomes for those going through the grieving process
2. Provide assurance to clients that you can help them and that they can trust you
3. Document your training; certification is a personal accomplishment and verifiable gauge of your training completion
4. Distinguish yourself from your peers and increase your opportunities for career advancement

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