Advanced Skills in Treating Complicated Grief

Supporting clients suffering from the effects of complicated grief demands an empathetic, compassionate yet focused perspective by the counsellor. But what specific skills are required in complex cases of grief, bereavement and loss?

This workshop will help delegates understand the more complex processes in grieving and help them support clients through that process - with an emphasis on clients who suffer particularly extended, complicated and debilitating grief.

Different models of the complex grieving processes will be examined and their implications for support and treatment.

This workshop is the next step for those delegates who have already attended Treating Complicated Grief, Bereavement and Loss. However, counsellors who have experience of working in this area are welcome. The workshop will look in more depth at specific advanced concepts covered briefly in that session as well as exploring new topics. Recent research in this area, and the clinical implications for clinicians will be examined.

A key focus will be on Complicated Grief Therapy, a new protocol for treating intense grief by Alana Iglewicz at the University of California and her colleagues .

What will the workshop cover? (Indicative)

• Recap - 'Uncomplicated' Bereavement and 'Complicated' Bereavement and 'Prolonged grief disorder'
• Advanced application of the Tasks of Grief model (Wordens)
• Advanced application of the Dual Process Model (Stroebe)
• Grieving for children
• Grieving for pets
• Grief and post-traumatic growth
• Treating Ambivalent, Conflicted and Disenfranchised Grief
• Research developments on grief and grieving
• Complicated Grief Therapy - A new protocol (Iglewicz & Shear)

What have previous delegates said about this workshop?

• I found the webinar on complicated grief very interesting looking forward to reading more
• Really found this workshop helpful. I am a trainee therapist, and feel now further on my training than last workshop before Christmas it was much more applicable now.
• I am a experienced therapist. This was an excellent complement and extension to the first complicated grief workshop. I recommend both.
• I find your delivery of your training really straightforward and easy to follow
• Very informative. Great to be able to complete an advanced workshop. Great resources.
• I loved learning about grieving for pets. This is not normally discussed anywhere.
• Very informative!! Very good review of very relevant, up-to-date treatement and grief models. Gives us lots to think about, good starting base, lots to use and go on from!
• I found this workshop brilliant. The case study was great. There was so much information sharing by presenter.
• Great examples of techniques and how we apply the models/theories; useful to have group work and have slide sheet/resources after the training. Thank you for the another great training!
• I'm a trainee PCT counsellor and I always find the events run by Practical CBT to be fun and interactive but also very accessible, irrespective of modality
• A stunning level of detail this time. Immensely useful big step up from the first complex grief workshop. Really worthwhile.

What have previous delegates said about our other workshops?

• Excellent CPD - a really productive and challenging experience. I recommend Patrick McGhee most highly. Great fun and most informative - with lots of further reading and resources to use.
• Patrick was very knowledgeable and has a fantastic way of breaking down complex issues to make them easier to understand. He provides practical advice on how to treat in session
• Excellent workshops. Very informative and taught so well, with knowledge, warmth and humour!
• A thorough and clear webinar that gave me new ideas and strategies. Very much enjoyed it.
• Interesting topic, resources were very good. Presenter clearly experienced.
• Highly focused and practical workshop, with things to add to my skill bag that I can use immediately

Who should attend?

This workshop is suitable for:

• Counsellors who have attended Treating Complicated Grief, Bereavement and Loss
• PCT, CFT, REBT, Integrative and CBT therapists who wish to update their knowledge and skills to enhance support for clients who have bereavement and loss as a primary or secondary issue
• Bereavement counsellors looking for a refresher and updating on latest research.
• Healthcare professionals seeking CPD on the fundamentals of contemporary support and treatment for the bereaved.
• Students and trainees in counselling, psychology, health and social care.

Resources

A full set of slides with extensive clickable links to free online resources, is sent free to all delegates after the event. This also includes references to key sources.

CPD

A CPD Certificate of Attendance confirming 2 hours CPD is available free to all delegates who attend.

Facilitator

Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He is an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. He currently works in private practice in Greater Manchester and Lancashire. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.