David Kessler On Grief and Grieving
Credit Available - See CEUs tab below.
- Category:
- Grief | Trauma
- Faculty:
- David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE
- Duration:
- 5 Hours 33 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Feb 19, 2019
- SKU:
- POS049945
- Media Type:
- Online Learning
Description
Grief and grieving. It’s traumatic. It’s awkward. It’s painful.
How often do you walk into the session or the patient’s room knowing that your education did not prepare you for this? How often do you miss having the right words, phrases and the right actions to console?
As professionals we are expected to have the right words at hand, the right actions to recommend, and the right response. Most of us fail shamefully due to a lack of grief emphasis in our training. Every client we will see will experience loss in their life.
David Kessler, international grief expert, author and practitioner and will help you transform your practice, your life, and learn the art of caring for the grieving. You will then know the right words and actions to truly be of help to the dying and grieving.
David’s personal experience of witnessing a mass shooting as a child and its aftermath helped him begin his journey as a grief healer. Through his work with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Mother Teresa, he has helped thousands of people face life and death with peace, dignity and courage. From working with Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Landon, and Anthony Perkins to seeing up-close the devastation and heroic response of so many at 9/11, Ground Zero, and Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedies, David lives the work he teaches.
Don’t let more time go by feeling unprepared to help your clients process their trauma, their grief and heal.
CEUs
This course is available for 5.5 total CPDs.
The HPCSA has declared that any on-line courses CPD/CEU credited by a certified US board, is automatically CPD/CEU credited in South Africa.
As there are different boards for different disciplines, we at Acacia suggest that you use the Counselling CPD/CEU credits. These correspond to South African credits of one CPD/CEU per 60 minutes. If you choose to use your discipline's credits, please do so at your discretion.
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 6.0 continuing education credits.
Handouts
| Manual - Grief and Grieving (5.2 MB) | 63 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE Related seminars and products
David Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on healing 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.
He is the author of six bestselling books. His new book is Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief. His first book, The Needs of the Dying, a #1 best-selling hospice book, received praise by (Saint) Mother Teresa. He co-authored two bestsellers with the legendary Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: On Grief and Grieving and Life Lessons. His most newly released book is You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After Breakup, Divorce or Death with Louise Hay. He worked with Elizabeth Taylor, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Marianne Williamson when their loved ones faced life-challenging illnesses. He also worked with late actors Anthony Perkins and Michael Landon. David’s work has been discussed in the Los Angeles Times, Business Week and Life Magazine, and has been featured on “Brené Brown, CNN-Cross Fire”, NBC, Fox, PBS, “Dr. Oz” and “Entertainment Tonight”. David is a contributing writer on Oprah.com, Dr. Oz’s Sharecare.com, “Anderson Cooper 360” and “The Huffington Post”.
David has a master’s degree in Health Care Bioethics from Loyola Marymount University, he did his undergraduate work at University of Southern California and is a member of the American College of Health Care Executives. He is a certified AMA/EPEC (Education for Physicians) trainer. He also is the founding chairperson for the Hospital Association of Southern California Palliative Care Committee and spent the last decade as a C-suite executive in a 650 bed – three hospital system in Los Angeles County.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: David Kessler is a presenter and receives compensation. He is the co-founder and President Emeritus of Project Angel Food. He is a published author and receives royalties. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording and book royalties from 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.
Additional Info
Program Information
Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)Access never expires for this product.
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Nurses
- Case Managers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Chaplains/Clergy Hospitals
- Palliative Care Services
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Outline
Interventions that can Shape GriefAnticipatory Grief
- Treatment strategies
- Tools for normalizing anticipatory grief for the patient/client
- Tools for preparing for the loss
- Interventions for coping enhancement for funerals
- The forgotten grievers
- Learn the truth about children going to funerals and open caskets
- Simplifying the model
- Murder, multiple losses, sudden death, suicide
- Alzheimer’s
- Delayed
- Disenfranchised
- Ambiguous
- Inconclusive
- Complicated
- Average response
- Resilience
- Learn alternatives to forgiveness
- Understand when it works and why it doesn’t
- Learn techniques your client can use to actually find forgiveness
- Understand how grief of suicide is different
- Learn techniques for releasing feelings of responsibility
- Tools for healing grief after suicide
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 loss
- 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
- Bullycide
- Anniversaries
- Holidays – the seen and unseen
- Birthdays
- Shootings/hurricanes/earthquakes and terrorist acts
- Techniques for approaching horrific crime and/or disaster scenes
- The impact of natural vs. manmade disasters
Objectives
- Analyze the dynamics of different types of grief and the healing processes associated with each.
- Specify age appropriate grieving milestones that occur across the lifespan.
- Articulate the somatic response to grief and identify how to manage residual grief in the body.
- Determine why children are often the “forgotten grievers” and identify strategies for helping this population.
- Analyze the efficacy of positive psychology interventions in treating grief.
- Ascertain the relationship between traumatic events and grief as it relates to the healing process.
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