Live webinar air date: May 15, 2025
Date
CE credits
3
Exam items
18
Series
Grief Informed Care
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Description
This workshop will provide a review of clinical presentations in the context of bereavement and strategies for assessment through two modules. The Bereavement-Related Mental Health Challenges, Differential Diagnosis, and Risk Factors module will examine mental health challenges that may develop following bereavement, distinguishing between specific diagnoses and identifying key risk factors. The assessment module will equip learners with skills to evaluate the appropriate level of care for grieving individuals. It will review evidence-informed tools for grief-related mental health and risk assessments, as well as strategies for administering these tools in the context of bereavement. Together, these modules will offer a comprehensive framework for understanding and addressing bereavement-related mental health challenges.
Learning objectives
- Identify bereavement-related mental health challenges and risk factors.
- Describe tools and strategies for administering mental health and risk assessments in the context of bereavement.
- Determine appropriate levels of bereavement care based on evidence-informed assessment tools.
Presenters
Wendy G. Lichtenthal, PhD
Lichtenthal is founding director of the Center for the Advancement of Bereavement Care at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and professor, pending rank, in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and federally-funded researcher specializing in grief and bereavement whose work has been recognized through awards from the American Psychosocial Oncology Society, International Psycho-Oncology Society, and Association for Death Education and Counseling.
Evgenia “Jane” Milman, PhD
Milman is a practicing licensed psychologist and a postdoctoral fellow funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to conduct bereavement research with the Center for the Advancement of Bereavement Care at the University of Miami and the psychology department at Western University. She is also practicum faculty at the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition. Most recently, she co-developed the Handbook of Grief Therapies and is co-authoring Principles and Practice of Grief Counselling (4th ed.).
Kailey Roberts, PhD
Roberts is an assistant professor at Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and consultant faculty at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, specializing in bereavement and palliative psychology. Roberts is leading research on bereavement risk screening, perinatal loss, and bereavement in chosen families, and is a collaborator on studies on meaning-centered psychotherapy, supporting bereaved parents, LGBTQIA+-affirming palliative care, and geropsychology training. Cutting across her work is an investment in applying qualitative methods to optimize and implement interventions.
