Live webinar air date: May 22, 2025
Date
CE credits
3
Exam items
18
Series
Grief Informed Care
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Description
This workshop will provide an exploration of evidence-based and evidence-informed strategies for supporting grieving individuals. Participants will learn the theoretical and empirical foundations underpinning each approach to grief support, as well as their clinical indications, empowering learners to recognize when specific interventions may be appropriate. By the end of the workshop, participants will be equipped to describe key grief interventions, understand their foundations, and discuss when they might be indicated to address the diverse needs of grieving individuals.
Learning objectives
- Describe existing evidence-informed and evidence-based interventions and strategies for supporting grieving individuals.
- Identify the theoretical and empirical foundations for existing grief interventions.
- Recognize when a specific approach may be indicated.
Presenters
Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD
Neimeyer directs the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, a global online training institute in grief therapy, and maintains an active consulting and coaching practice. Neimeyer has published 37 books and over 600 journal articles and chapters, including Living Beyond Loss: Questions and Answers about Grief and Bereavement and New Techniques of Grief Therapy, and serves as editor of Death Studies. He is currently working to advance a more adequate theory of grieving as a meaning-making process.
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.).
