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Learning Objectives
1.Differentiate relevant theories and models describing the physical and psychosocial effects of loss, grief, and mourning on the individual and family system and their clinical implications.
2.Determine how to plan and implement appropriate assessments, interventions and strategies to help individuals and families cope with loss and grief to improve treatment outcomes.
3.Perform a clinical assessment to inform the clinicians choice of best treatment interventions for the reduction of symptoms of Prolonged Grief Disorder, disenfranchised grief, or Persistent Prolonged Grief Disorder.
4.Differentiate potential loss events occurring throughout the lifespan, including non-death situations, to inform the clinicians choice of treatment interventions.
5.Analyze the ethnic, gender, and cultural factors that affect individual responses to loss-related situations as it relates to case conceptualization.
6.Evaluate factors that influence normal and complicated reactions to dying and grief in clients.
7.Determine ones own cognitive, affective, and behavioral reactions to death, dying, and bereavement, as it relates to professional practice with clients experiencing grief and loss.
8.Differentiate theories and models of individual, cultural, couple, family, and community resilience in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
9.Analyze the efficacy of various treatment interventions for complicated grief to improve clinical outcomes.
10.Determine the ethical and legal issues in end-of-life decisions, such as suffering, dying, and choice, and their clinical implications.