Living with loss: a cognitive approach to prolonged grief disorder- incorporating complicated, enduring and traumatic grief (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course explores prolonged grief disorder and highlights existing psychological therapies and models. The course differentiates between normal and abnormal grief and offers an overview of the DSM-5 diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder, predictors of prolonged grief, and maintenance factors. The reading highlights therapies, including the cognitive model of PTSD as a framework for treating traumatic grief. The second reading examines possible maladaptive coping strategies, including avoidance, proximity seeking, and rumination.
This course is recommended for social workers and counselors and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
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