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Healing the Invisible: Integrating Grief and Loss with Clients with Substance Use Disorder

T. Reese Clark, LMFT
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Description

This course will support clinicians to readily assess complicated grief with clients struggling with substance use disorders. This course will also address how to consider interventions that most address indicators for complicated grief.

In this presentation, the participant will be learning about grief, specifically complex grief as it relates to substance abuse disorders. This presentation will explore the coping strategies inventory used in a study to help identify the most salient factors that indicate CG for clients suffering with substance abuse. Participants will also examine how cultural rituals facilitate the healing process of grief. By integrating these concepts, clinicians can develop more effective, culturally-informed strategies for navigating grief within the substance use disorder population. The presentation will end with a brief mindfulness activity.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe two factors strongly indicated in complicated grief in clients with substance abuse disorders.

  • Create at least two interventions for clients suffering with complicated grief within a group setting .

Educational Goal

This course will support in widening the lens of understanding ways to work with grief in congregate or group settings.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Nurse
  • Physician
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

T. Reese Clark, LMFT
Hello and Welcome, from T. Reese Clark, LMFT, Director of Clinical Services at The Camp. They have been providing substance abuse and mental health services since 2005. They have been honored to witness young people and adults make incredible changes in their lives, as a result of their own dedication and the availability of appropriate support to help them. They have worked with adolescents and adults; and individuals and families. They have offered support utilizing individual, family and group counseling. They utilize a myriad of treatment approaches being informed in Mindfulness, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused, Internal Family Systems, trauma informed, person-centered attachment based clinical orientations. They have studied somatic oriented treatments that focus on calming the nervous system for the purpose of increasing the window of tolerance, also known as stress management. A heightened stress response is frequently indicated in the development of troublesome coping strategies that can work against a person’s ability to thrive in their lives.

Financially Sponsored By

  • Acadia Healthcare Treatment Placement Specialists® (TPS)