Product Detail

• Apply crisis theory for understanding where your client is when you first meet
• Show a simple metaphor to create a four part coping measure for client and caregiver self-inventory
• Examine the benefits of teaching clients to communicate through the use of metaphors to increase their formal and informal support systems
• Identify a listening and communicating approach that brings core feelings to the surface so clients can deal with the core emotional components of their grief
• Explain the challenges grief has in a society not supportive of public expression of what is being experienced
• Describe ethical conflicts that occur when confronted by grief that create a risk for countertransference

DEVELOPMENT AND RESOLUTION OF A CRISIS

• How Crisis Theory is a guide to understanding your client’s loss journey
• The self-defined nature of crisis development in the face of loss
  • The ‘contributaries’ that facilitate complicated grief
  • The role of maladaptive coping
  • The role of alcohol and substance abuse (prescription and recreational)
  • Risk factors for clients who are coping with complex causes of death and how to lower their risks
• Equipment to help the bereaved take charge of their Journey:
  • Understand how their loss has unfolded into defining moments
  • Steps that lead to Post-Traumatic Growth rather than pathological grief
  • Identify thoughts of suicide and suicidal ambivalence and develop a plan to reduce risk
  • Self-care exercises for clinician and client

PREPARING TO TREAT SUDDEN AND TRAUMATIC LOSS

• The most common type of sudden and traumatic loss faced by communities
• The impact of sudden and traumatic loss on:
  • Children (including impact on child development)
  • Families and the potential for long-term negative consequences
  • Community
• Equipment to:
  • Identify and assist those who need additional treatment
  • Refer (available resources and evidence-based practices)
  • Provide treatment and support initially and through life milestones
• Ethical conflicts that create a risk for countertransference

SUDDEN AND TRAUMATIC LOSS: TOOLS FOR HEALING

• How metaphors can
  • Aid in the initial assessment of the client’s status
  • Benefit the client and therapist in the treatment of traumatic loss
  • Provide an understanding of the complexities of the traumatic loss and grief process
• Examples of metaphors used by clients
• Training clients to use metaphors activate their informal support system
• The Active Postvention Model
  • History of the LOSS Team Concept
  • Preparing your community to activate the LOSS Team model
  • The role of the Loss Team first responders in the initial and overall treatment of traumatic loss

ELICITING COMMUNICATION WITH CORE FEELINGS TO SUPPORT CONGRUENCY

• The benefits of going back to the basics
• Why the language of grief requires congruent feelings to be expressed
• Psycho-Educational Intervention
  • How substitution of thoughts has complicated clear communication between the bereaved and their informal caregivers.
  • How clients can become more clear in communicating their needs
  • Implementing psychoeducational interventions in your grief practice
• Equipment for:
  • Overcoming obstacles to hearing the emotions below the content of a client’s grief communication
  • Overcoming challenges to implementing strategies for clear communication

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Addiction Counselors

This self-study course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6.0 CE in the skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.

California Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (CCAPP): PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the CCAPP-EI, Provider #: 0S-03-036-1025. This self-study activity meets the qualifications for 6.0 CEH's (continuing education hours).

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Chaplains/Clergy
This self-study program is designed to qualify for 6.25 continuing education hours.

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Counselors
This intermediate self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

Illinois Counselors: This intermediate self-study activity consists of 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Per the IDFPR: Social Work Continuing Education Sponsors approved by the Division in accordance with the rules for the administration of Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act (225 ILCS 201), 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1470.95; PESI, Inc. is a registered social work continuing education sponsor wtih the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. License #: 159-000154.A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance, pass a post-test, and who complete the program evaluation.

New York Counselors: PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0033. This self-study activity will qualify for 7.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

South Carolina Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists: This program has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours by the South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists. Provider #4540.

Texas Counselors: PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors. Provider #: 2477. This self-study course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.

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Marriage & Family Therapists
This self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists: PESI, Inc. has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. Provider #: 168-000156. Full attendance at this self-study activity qualifies for 6.0 credits.

New York Marriage & Family Therapists: PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. #MFT-0024. This self-study activity will qualify for 7.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

Texas Marriage & Family Therapists: PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists. Provider #: 503. This self-study activity qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.

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Psychologists
This self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline and the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity. Contact us for more information on your state board or organization specific filing requirements.

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Social Workers
PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for this self-study course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 5 Clinical, 1 Ethics continuing education credits. Course Level: Intermediate. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation.

New York Social Workers: PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0008. This self-study activity will qualify for 7.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

California Social Workers/ Counselors/Marriage & Family Therapists/Licensed Educational Psychologists: The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE programs that are approved by other approval agencies, including several that approve PESI and its programs. A full list of approval agencies accepted by the BBS can be found at www.bbs.ca.gov/licensees/cont_ed.html under “Where to find CE Courses.” This intermediate level activity consists of 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction.

Florida Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 6.25 continuing education credits.

Ohio Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #: RCST071001. Successful completion of this self-study course meets the qualifications for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education credit.

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Other Professions
This self-study activity qualifies for 6.25 clock hours of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Disclaimer: **Information obtained in this course should be used within your scope of practice.
**It is your ethical responsibility to report accurate hours to your licensing board.
**All self-study participants must complete and pass (80% or better) a post-test and evaluation prior to receiving a certificate of completion. If you require a copy of the test/evaluation for CE purposes, please print at the time you take the test. Or you may call our customer service department and a copy of your test/evaluation will be emailed to you. Please allow 30-45 days.

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