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Grief Treatment Certification Course: Evidence-Based Strategies for Helping Clients Make Meaning After Loss


Speaker:
Carla Archuletta, MA, LPC/MHSP, FT, NCC
Duration:
Approx 12 hrs
Copyright:
Aug 21, 2025
Product Code:
POS150269
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar

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Description

Your client’s world has been shattered following the loss of a loved one. Not only are they adjusting to these days and weeks without that person, but they are also struggling with changes to their sense of self.

Who are they now as they navigate this new world? Your client is stuck in a place of paralyzing sorrow, and you’re unsure of what else to do to help.

This is the perfect opportunity to get the tools that will transform the way you treat grieving clients, drastically increasing their well-being while reducing symptoms of complicated grief!

Watch expert Carla Archuletta, MA, LPC/MHSP-S, FT, NCC, as she guides you through the process of working with bereaved individuals and aiding them with making meaning after loss. She’ll use her extensive experience as a hospice grief counselor, trained end-of-life doula, and biomedical researcher to give you evidence-based counseling strategies appropriate for the treatment of multiple types of losses. You’ll also get the skills you need to tailor clinical interventions to the uniqueness of each client’s grief experience!

Best of all, upon completion of this training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Grief-Informed Professional (CGP) through Evergreen Certifications. Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and caregivers know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of grief counseling. Professional standards apply. Visit for details. Purchase today to revolutionize your work with grieving clients!

CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!

  • No hidden fees – 小蝌蚪视频 pays for your application fee (a $99 value)*!
  • Simply complete this live event and the post-event evaluation included in this training, and your application to be a Certified Grief-Informed Professional through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*

Attendees will receive documentation of CGP designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following the program.
*Professional standards apply. Visit for professional requirements.

Credit


* Credit Note - Self-Study CE Information Coming Soon

Continuing education credit information is coming soon for this non-interactive self-study package.

CE hours may be available for select professions, as listed in the target audience. Hours will be dependent on the actual recording time. Please check with your state licensing board or organization for specific requirements. 

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**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.



Speaker

Carla Archuletta, MA, LPC/MHSP, FT, NCC's Profile

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Carla Archuletta, MA, LPC/MHSP, FT, NCC, is a highly sought-after speaker, clinician, author, and educator who specializes in death/dying, bereavement, trauma, oncology-related care, and end-of-life transitions. Carla鈥檚 integrative clinical approach is grounded in a strong scientific foundation, shaped by her early work in biomedical research and her role in oncology/hematology at Vanderbilt University where she focused on bone marrow for transplant in patients. Her extensive experience encompasses several years as a hospice grief counselor as well as being a trained end-of-life doula through the University of Vermont, further enriching her expertise in bereavement and end-of-life care.

Based in Brentwood, Tennessee, Carla operates a compassionate, evidence-based private practice with an unwavering commitment to guiding individuals and professionals through life鈥檚 most arduous emotional experiences. She also provides clinical services as a contract clinician affiliated with Gilda鈥檚 Club Middle Tennessee and Brentwood Counseling Associates. Carla is the coauthor of Health-Medical Challenges and Grief: Group EMDR Therapy for Patients and Caregivers, which is featured in EMDR Group Therapy: Emerging Principles and Protocols to Treat Trauma and Beyond (Springer Publishing).

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Charlotte Archuletta maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Brentwood Counseling Associates, Gilda’s Club Middle Tennessee, NCMHCE, and Alive Hospice, Inc. She receives royalties as a published author. Charlotte Archuletta receives a speaking honorarium from 小蝌蚪视频. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Charlotte Archuletta is a member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, EMDRIA International Association, NBCC, Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselors Association, and the Nashville Psychotherapy Institute.


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Objectives

  1. Differentiate relevant theories and models describing the physical and psychosocial effects of loss, grief, and mourning on the individual and family system and their clinical implications.
  2. Determine how to plan and implement appropriate assessments, interventions and strategies to help individuals and families cope with loss and grief to improve treatment outcomes.
  3. Perform a clinical assessment to inform the clinician’s choice of best treatment interventions for the reduction of symptoms of Prolonged Grief Disorder, disenfranchised grief, or Persistent Prolonged Grief Disorder.
  4. Differentiate potential loss events occurring throughout the lifespan, including non-death situations, to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
  5. Analyze the ethnic, gender, and cultural factors that affect individual responses to loss-related situations as it relates to case conceptualization.
  6. Evaluate factors that influence normal and complicated reactions to dying and grief in clients.
  7. Determine one’s own cognitive, affective, and behavioral reactions to death, dying, and bereavement, as it relates to professional practice with clients experiencing grief and loss.
  8. Differentiate theories and models of individual, cultural, couple, family, and community resilience in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
  9. Analyze the efficacy of various treatment interventions for complicated grief to improve clinical outcomes.
  10. Determine the ethical and legal issues in end-of-life decisions, such as suffering, dying, and choice, and their clinical implications.
  11. Utilize clinical strategies to assist grieving clients in the move from flight or fight to social engagement in session.
  12. Utilize the co-regulating pathways of the social engagement system in session as an approach to managing symptoms of Prolonged Grief Disorder.

Outline

Types of Grief & Their Implications for Treatment
  • Explain historical and current relevant theories and models describing the physical and psychosocial effect of loss, grief, and mourning on the individual and family system
  • Compare factors that influence normal and complicated reactions to dying and grief
  • Disenfranchised grief
  • Persistent Prolonged Grief Disorder
  • Traumatic Bereavement
  • Prolonged Grief Disorder
    • Common trajectories for grief
    • Recognize Prolonged Grief Disorder
    • Risk factors for Prolonged Grief Disorder
    • Treatment interventions
  • Types of Loss & Their Impact on Grieving
    • Parental loss
    • Child loss
    • Widowhood
    • Non-death losses
Grief & the Family: Guide Families through Healthy Grieving
  • Differentiate potential loss events occurring throughout the lifespan, including non-death situations, and complicated bereavement
  • Identify theories and models of individual, couple, and family resilience
    • Family systems theory: Family influences on individual grief
    • Variables that complicate family adaptation
    • Strategies to guide family adaptation to loss
    • Develop respect for different grieving styles
    • The role of gender norms
    • Developmental considerations & milestones related to loss reactions for:
      • Children
      • Adolescents
      • Early adulthood
      • Middle adulthood
      • Later adulthood
Multicultural Considerations for Grief Treatment
  • Analyze the ethnic, gender, and cultural factors that affect responses to loss-related situations
  • Increase awareness of one’s own beliefs, assumptions, and biases and how they may influence the establishment and maintenance of therapeutic relationships with culturally diverse clients
  • Cultural factors affecting expression of grief
  • Impact on mourning practices
  • Culture’s impact on death anxiety & meaning of life
  • Determine where the identity emphasis lies
  • Cultural values regarding emotional expression and disclosure
  • The impact of society on grief
Assessment: Intake Considerations for Grieving Clients
  • Articulate how to plan and implement appropriate assessments, interventions, and strategies
  • Perform a clinical assessment to inform the clinicians’ choice of best treatment interventions for the reduction of symptoms
  • Current conceptualization models
  • Factors impacting the grief experience
  • Assess for depression and suicide ideation
  • Differentiate between depression, grief & PTSD
  • Persistent Prolonged Grief Disorder
  • Take home assessment tools
Grief Treatment: Interventions & Strategies to Improve Clinical Outcomes
  • Analyze the efficacy of various treatment interventions for complicated grief to improve clinical outcomes
  • Utilize clinical strategies to assist grieving clients in the move from fight/flight or freeze to social engagement in sessions
  • Utilize the co-regulating pathways of the social engagement system in session as an approach to managing symptoms of complicated grief
    • Assist clients with expressing their pain
    • Integrate a new inner image of the deceased
    • Client self-assessment strategies for coping
    • Foster client relaxation skills
    • Let the client lead: Starting point, story & stopping point
    • Cultivate acceptance
    • Elicit emotional availability in clients
    • Give clients “permission” to not share stories
    • Develop healthy grief rituals
    • Target guilt due to stopping grief rituals
    • Build a bridge between memories, current behaviors & underlying values
    • Help clients accept the finality of the death
    • Navigate the treatment of multiple losses
    • ”Family coat of arms” activity
Professional Issues: Ethical Considerations for Working with Grieving Clients, Their Families & the Terminally Ill
  • Scrutinize the ethical and legal issues in end-of-life decisions, such as suffering, dying and choice, and their clinical implications
  • Examine one’s own cognitive, affective, behavioral, and valuational reaction to death and dying and bereavement as it relates to professional practice with client’s experiencing grief and loss
    • Ethical dilemmas that confront the terminally ill
    • Ethical principles of end-of-life decisions
    • The clinician’s role in addressing psychological suffering & needs of the terminally ill
    • Impact of cause of death on social isolation
    • Identify the core values and principles of professional ethical behavior
    • Boundaries of professional competence

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Social Workers
  • Pastoral Counselors
  • Chaplains/Clergy
  • Funeral Directors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Mental Health Nurses
  • Nursing Home Administrators
  • Thanatologists
  • Physicians
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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