Course Description

  • This course designed for social work mental health professionals, will address how to work with grief, loss and mourning. Loss is an essential and inevitable experience of the living that has vast and powerful ripple effects across all humanity. We can and do experience all kind of loss throughout our lives, not just loss via death. As mental health clinicians, it is imperative to cultivate a deeper understanding of the types of loss that exist, the clinical considerations present in loss, grief and mourning and be familiar with different interventions. Also, understanding how we process and cope with our own grief as mental health clinicians will inform how we relate to and can help our clients who are struggling to process their experiences of loss and grief.

Learning Objectives

  • Define and discuss loss, grief and mourning and key clinical considerations

  • Assess our own grief landscape and explore and identify challenges and gifts of grief work

  • Share, discuss and demonstrate effective ways to meet the grieving

  • Recognize when and how to utilize expressive arts and experiential exercises in grief work

Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • Introduction to Meeting the Grieving: Working with Grief and Loss

    • Meeting the Grieving: Working with Grief & Loss
  2. 2

    • Meeting the Grieving: Working with Grief and Loss Bibliography

    • Meeting the Grieving: Working with Grief and Loss - HANDOUT - The Tree

    • Meeting the Grieving: Working with Grief and Loss - HANDOUT - Powerpoint

  3. 3

    • Loss & Attachment
  4. 4

    • What is Grief?
  5. 5

    • Types of Loss & Grief
  6. 6

    • The Mourning Process
  7. 7

    • Traumatic Loss & Complicated Grief
  8. 8

    • Therapist's Reaction to Grief Work
  9. 9

    • Accessing Our Own Grief Landscape
  10. 10

    • Beginning Grief Work
  11. 11

    • Language, Pictures & Transitional Objects

  12. 12

    • Expressive Arts
  13. 13

    • Guided Imagery
  14. 14

    • Letter Writing
  15. 15

    • Relationship Tree
  16. 16

    • Dreamwork
  17. 17

    • Summary
  18. 18

    • Meeting the Grieving: Working with Grief and Loss, Posttest - Instructions

    • Meeting the Grieving: Working with Grief and Loss, Posttest
  19. 19

    • Please take this short questionnaire.

    • Meeting the Grieving Course Evaluation Recorded Audio/Visual Conference CE Class

Bhava Therapy Group, #1782, 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. Bhava Therapy Group maintains responsibility for this course.  ACE provider approval period: 12/09/2021 – 12/09/2022. Social workers completing this course receive  2.25 continuing education credits.