Ordinary People: Family Systems and Grief in Clinical Practice

What you'll learn

• Apply family systems concepts including differentiation, triangulation, homeostasis, and intergenerational patterns to clinical assessment and treatment planning with grieving families.
• Identify at least five ways that family systems dynamics influence grief and bereavement, including differential grief responses, role reorganization, communication patterns, and boundary changes.
• Describe evidence-based approaches to working with grieving families, including family grief therapy techniques and integration of individual and systemic interventions.
• Analyze the role of attachment patterns, emotional availability, and family communication in shaping bereavement outcomes for surviving family members.
• Evaluate clinical decision-making processes when working with families experiencing complicated grief reactions, including assessment of family functioning and treatment modality selection.

Who it's for

LPCs, LMHCs, LCSWs, LMFTs, Psychologists

Approval & credit

CounselorReady is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP #7760). This course awards 1 NBCC-approved CE hour; a certificate is issued on completion. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CounselorReady is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.