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Beyond Stages: Modern Grief Theory & Foundations of Clinical Therapeutic Support for Grievers

Saturday March 8th, 2025 9am-11am

Hosted at Center for Compassion

1331 North Alma School Rd Suite 100, Chandler, AZ 85224. Offered in person on site. 

Registration Deadline: Saturday March 8th, 2025

With the heartbreaking truth of traumatic death being on the rise, it is urgently important that the behavioral health field better understands how to support grievers. This presentation will provide an overview of clinical theory and interventions for traumatic grief and bereavement. Current controversy in the field regarding diagnosis for the bereaved will be explored. Specific clinical interventions will be identified for use with supporting grievers in the therapeutic setting.

 

Learning Objectives: 

 

1. Describe history of grief theory, modern grief theory, and current understanding of best practice approaches in working with grievers as well as define differences between grief/bereavement/traumatic grief.

 

2. Identify the effects of traumatic grief to better evaluate and normalize presenting concerns of grievers in addition to critiquing current controversy related to DSM addition of ‘Prolonged Grief Disorder’.

 

3. Implement specific clinical interventions and therapeutic support for those enduring traumatic grief based on current clinical research.

 

Target Audience: Licensed helping professionals who work in a clinical setting in which they would be supporting or providing therapeutic interventions to those who are bereaved. 

 

Content Level: Requires graduate level education. Intermediate level of training content. No prior education in grief is required before taking the course. 

 

Fee & registration: Registration can be found at www.swigts.com. Cost is $75 and includes CE credit. Cancellations must be received 72 hours prior to the event receive a refund.

Outline with specific times and breaks: Course is 2 hours of didactic learning with slides and examples of use of skills presented. Course material includes: defining grief/bereavement, theories of grief models, theories of grief interventions, controversy regarding Prolonged Grief Disorder, research about what is most helpful for the traumatically bereaved, and use of grief specific supports and therapeutic actions that align with grief affirming (TM) practices.

 

Amount of CE credit offered:  2 CE

 

Course completion & CE info Participants will be provided with their CE certificate at the end of the training presentation after completion of the course evaluation and signing out at the end of the training.

 

Southwest Institute for Grief and Trauma Studies (SWIGTS), 1913, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/06/2024-04/06/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.
 

QUESTIONS? For questions, concerns, or to request special accommodations, please contact: info@swigts.com

Terri Waibel, MSW, LCSW, FT is the founder and continuing education director of the Southwest Institute for Grief and Trauma Studies, an education body that is closing the gap in grief education for helping professionals. Terri is also the founder and clinical director of Center for Compassion, a multi-provider psychotherapy practice in Arizona that is dedicated to supporting the traumatically bereaved after the death of a beloved person. As the 2023 NASW Arizona Social Worker of the Year, Terri brings 20 years of volunteer and work experience to the field.  Terri is simultaneously honored and heartbroken to be present with grievers and proud to call herself a grief activist.

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