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Digital Seminar

The Grief Nobody Talks About: Counseling Strategies for Families Facing the Losses of Addiction


Speaker:
Litsa Williams, MA, LCSW-C
Duration:
1 Hour 31 Minutes
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Copyright:
Apr 14, 2023
Product Code:
POS059356
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

It’s a silent grief nobody talks about. Buried in shame, despair and fear; families living with addiction experience deep ambiguous and non-finite grief. Watching helplessly, the hopes they had for their futures dissolve before their eyes. Unrecognizable from the person they knew, families can even feel like their loved one has already died. In this session, view Litsa Williams therapist and author of What’s Your Grief? Lists to Help You through Any Loss as she shows you the specific strategies and techniques you need to counsel the families of those with addictions and design treatment plans that address the distinctively challenging emotional and relational aspects of these losses.

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Speaker

Litsa Williams, MA, LCSW-C's Profile

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Litsa Williams, MA, LCSW-C, is the co-founder of the online grief community What’s Your Grief and a grief therapist with 15 years of experience specializing in sudden and traumatic loss, substance abuse, and ambiguous grief. Drawing on personal and professional experience with grief, she cofounded WYG as a resource offering concrete, practical, creative, down-to-earth, and relatable support for death and nondeath losses, founded on the values of psychoeducation and creative coping. WYG has grown to serve more than 5 million visitors each year online and thousands more through its educational materials provided to families by funeral homes, grief centers, hospice, and hospitals. Litsa received her master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work, as well as a master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Warwick (UK). She has been interviewed as a grief expert for the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and New York Times. She is co-author of the book What’s Your Grief: Lists to Help You Through Any Loss.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Litsa Williams is the co-founder and program director of What’s Your Grief and has an employment relationship with Columbia Addictions Center. She is a stock holder of Cybin and Mind Medicine. Litsa Williams receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Litsa Williams is a member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, the National Association of Social Workers, and the National Alliance for Children's Grief.


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Objectives

  1. Analyze the dynamics of nonfinite grief and ambiguous loss for family members of those with active addictions.
  2. Use practical, evidence-informed skill building to increase psychological flexibility and tolerance of ambiguity in clients who have family members with active addictions.
  3. Use reconstruction, sense-making, and redefinition of hope for family members of those with active addiction.

Outline

  • Ambiguous loss and nonfinite grief in the context of addiction
  • Therapeutic framework and goals of counseling with families of those with addictions
  • Barriers to support and effective interventions
  • Collaborative treatment planning
  • Intervention and skill-building
    • Dialectical thinking for tempering mastery and redefining meaning
    • Bruce and Schultz psychoeducational interventions
    • Identity loss and reconstruction
    • ‘making-sense’ as meaning
    • Identifying present-moment hope
  • Risks, research and limitations

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practioners
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Other Mental Health Professions

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