WORKING WITH GRIEF AND LOSS: UPDATED APPROACHES

Thursday, March 12th

12pm to 4:30pm

Live Virtual Interactive Training

4 CEs

The death of a loved one is among the most significant stressors a person can experience, yet graduate training often provides only limited instruction in grief. This workshop reviews foundational grief models and introduces contemporary frameworks such as the Integrated Process Model and Dual Process Model. Emphasizing grief as a whole-body experience with biological, psychological, and social dimensions, the workshop draws on psychological, psychophysiological, and neurobiological research to help clinicians distinguish normative grief from maladaptive processes while avoiding the overpathologization of normal human grief.

With the addition of Prolonged Grief Disorder to the DSM-5-TR in 2022, many psychologists may have received little formal training in its assessment, treatment, or differentiation from conditions such as depression and PTSD. Special considerations for suicide and other traumatic losses will also be addressed.