A theoretical course illustrated with clinical examples. This course is composed of videos of 5 to 15 minutes each. The PowerPoint of the course to download.
Mourning and Meaning: The Model of Grief Therapy
Dr. Robert Neimeyer, Professor Emeritus of the University of Memphis
Fostering resilience and cultivating meaning through loss
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- 3h of continuing education
- 22 lessons that last from 5 to 15 minutes each
- 1 certificate of achievement
- 1 PowerPoint
- 1 bibliography
- 1 course evaluation
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Overview
Many clients come to therapy seeking support for recent or anticipated losses and their lasting effects - difficulties forming attachments, a tendency toward excessive self-reliance, or other disruptions to relational and emotional life. After all, loss is intrinsic to the human experience, and it offers opportunities to cultivate wisdom, growth, and resilience.
In this workshop - designed by Professor Emeritus Robert Neimeyer, a leading psychologist and grief specialist - you will:
- Examine advanced grief-therapy techniques within robust therapeutic relationships and contemporary theoretical frameworks, focusing on how to help clients reconstruct their worlds of meaning after loss.
- Learn tools and interventions that facilitate active engagement with grief both in session and between sessions. Techniques such as dimensional dialogues with the deceased provide practical, reflective pathways for integration.
- Develop skills for creating a safe therapeutic environment that supports emotional regulation, perspective-taking, and the weaving of loss into clients’ broader life narratives.
- Explore grief as a process of reconstructing (rather than relinquishing) bonds with the deceased, employing creative narrative, arts-assisted, and performative approaches.
Key topics will be covered in detail: 1. Understanding prolonged grief disorder and its clinical implications 2. Reviewing research on traumatic loss and the crisis of meaning 3. Identifying attachment-related bereavement complications 4. Discussing evidence for resilience and post-traumatic growth 5. Examining outcomes in meaning-focused grief therapy
Accreditation
Awaiting the OPQ accreditation number
About the expert
Dr. Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of the University of Memphis, maintains an active consulting practice, and directs the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, which provides global online training in grief therapy. Prof. Neimeyer has published 37 books, including Living Beyond Loss: Questions and Answers about Grief and Bereavement and New Techniques of Grief Therapy, and serves as Editor of Death Studies. The author of over 600 publications, he has been listed in the Stanford University/Elsevier roster of Top 2% Scientists, with 57,968 citations to his work according to Google Scholar. Dr. Neimeyer is currently working to advance a more adequate theory of grieving as a meaning-making process. In recognition of his contributions, he has been made a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and given Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Association for Death Education and Counseling and the International Network on Personal Meaning.
Learning objectives
- Distinguish between adaptive and complicated forms of grief
- Apply restorative retelling procedures for mastering the event story of the loss
- Outline narrative techniques for accommodating loss in literal and figurative ways into the changed narrative of the client’s life
- Implement two techniques for consolidating a constructive bond with the deceased as the client transitions toward a changed future
Learning material
Syllabus
- PowerPoint
- 1. Introduction
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Laying the Foundation
- 2. Wired for Attachment
- 3. Prolonged Grief Disorder in the ICD-II
- 4. Analyzing PGD Research
- 5. Risks of Complicated Grief
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A Trauma-Informed Perspective
- 6. Meaning-Focused Grief Therapy First Part
- 7. Search for Meaning
- 8. Needs of Bereaved Following Suicide and Overdose
- 9. Relation of Bereavement Needs to Prolonged Grief
- 10. Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale
- 11. Risk Factors for Prolonged Grief
- 12. Restorative Retelling
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An Attachment-Informed Perspective
- 13. Meaning-Focused Grief Therapy Second Part
- 14. Unfinished Business
- 15. Unfinished Business in Covid Bereavement
- 16. Imaginal Dialogues
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Meaning-Focused Grief Therapy: A Resilience-Informed Perspective
- 17. Meaning-Focused Grief Therapy Third Part
- 18. Different Network Analysis
- 19. Shedding and Rebirth of Identity
- 20. Loss as a Catalyst for Growth
- 21. Meaning In Loss- A Clinical Trial
- 22. Conclusion
- Bibliography
CE Credits
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Audience
This course is intended for mental health professionals.
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