Grief Treatment: Current Evidence Based Approaches to Care Across the Lifespan

Objectives

Examine current models of grief theory that go beyond the five stages and the treatment implications of each model.
Distinguish the unique experience created by different types of loss in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
Evaluate a client’s understanding of death and response to grief from a developmental perspective across the lifespan.
Determine how grief impacts the family system (individually and together), and how to better equip them to support each other in grief.
Evaluate current and cutting-edge modalities used to treat typical and complicated grief in the clinical setting.
Prepare specific creative counselling interventions that engage the individual, couple or family in the process of grief.

Copyright : 05/02/2020

Grief in the DSM-5: The Most Recent Diagnostic Guidelines

Objectives

Investigate the history of how bereavement has been addressed in previous Diagnostic and Statistics Manuals (DSM).
Evaluate why the bereavement exclusion was removed from the diagnosis of major depressive disorder in the DSM-5.
Apply diagnostic criteria from the DSM-5 to diagnose uncomplicated and complicated bereavement.
Analyze the diagnostic criteria for prolonged grief disorder and characterize how it relates to clinical practice.