Room Pardise Ballroom C

Speaker(s)

Description

As we go through life, we experience the deaths of friends, parents, siblings, and life partners. Other losses can be related to health, moves, and loss of roles that have been important parts of personal identity. This workshop features clinical strategies to support clients’ healthy grieving processes and management of daily life tasks. Screening and assessment tools are reviewed to aid clinicians in distinguishing normative grief reactions from prolonged grief disorder, with implications for treatment planning and implementation. An emphasis will be on grief therapy strategies that are responsive to the needs of culturally diverse clients. Case examples are provided to support the efforts of practitioners from a range of disciplines (e.g., social work, counseling, marriage and family therapy, nursing, clinical psychology) in busy clinical practices.

Objectives

• Describe the rationale for behavioral activation as a transdiagnostic change process
• Explain the culturally – responsive features of behavioral activation.
• Identify within-session strategies to improve effectiveness of BA.