(DL Abb1)Trauma: Grief, Traumatic Loss, and Bereavement Counseling

Course overview

Topics included in this course are: Types of Guilt; Traumatized Relationships; Motives for Social Isolation; Shattering Assumptions of Grieving Clients; Ineffective Grief Counseling; Creating Self-statements; Physiological Aspects of Trauma and Grief; Perceptions about Grief; Positive Aspects of Grief; Forms of Emotional Numbing; Child Loss: Considering Adoption; Intangible Success Factors; Grief & Trauma: The Counselor's Role; Traumatic Loss: Linking Trauma and Grief; Protective Parenting After the Death of a Child; Theories of Grief and Mourning; Grief Therapy and the Process of Reconstruction; Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement; Music Therapy in Grief Resolution; Psychotherapy of Traumatic Grief; The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement: Rationale and Description; Diagnostic Criteria for Traumatic Grief; and Tasks of Mourning.