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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.

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

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.

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**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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