As Mental Health Professionals we can enhance our understanding of a client’s loss narrative and provide a richer clinical service by identifying and attending to the threads of trauma in grief. This workshop will focus on assessment, interventions and outcomes that can enhance and facilitate broader healing perspectives when encountering trauma in grief. Course material will address both death and non-death loss experiences. Topics will include: • The nature of grief as a response to symbolic loss, ambiguous loss, disenfranchised grief, and bereavement. • Contemporary grief theories and the pivotal impact of grief and trauma when working with a variety of clinical concerns. • The critical role of Trauma Informed Care within both the organization and the clinician’s own relational stance when working with grief, loss and trauma. • Developing a clinical tool kit and determining the context for utilizing various grief & trauma interventions. • Critically examining one’s own experience of loss and grief as it pertains to clinical perspectives.

Title:e	Grief and Adjustment Through a Trauma Informed Lens
When:	May 10, 2018
Location:	1820 Richmond Rd SW (Solarium)
Type:	Workshop
Practice Area:	Clinical
Contact Email:	grief.education@ahs.ca
Contact Name:	Michelle Agopsowicz
Contact Organization:	AHS
Contact Phone:	403-955-8011
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Date Posted:	March 22, 2018