Live webinar air date: May 8, 2025
Date
CE credits
3
Exam items
18
Series
Grief Informed Care
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Description
This workshop will offer an in-depth exploration of grief through two modules. The Phenomenology of Grief module will introduce grief-related terminology, utilizing a biopsychosocial framework to examine diverse presentations, features, and correlates of the grief experience. The Contemporary Perspectives and Evidence-Informed Models of Grief module will describe influential theories of grief, exploring how grief evolves over time, and discuss its public health implications. Learners will also receive guidance on how grief theories can be translated into psychoeducation for clinical practice. Together, these modules will provide an understanding of the complexities of grief and practical strategies for supporting bereaved individuals.
Learning objectives
- Define and differentiate grief-related terminology, theories, and models of grief.
- Identify the features, correlates, and presentations of grief using a biopsychosocial framework.
- Describe contemporary theories of grief and translate them into psychoeducation for clinical practice.
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.).
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.
