Description
Suicide is extremely traumatic for the friends and family members that remain (the survivors). In addition to the feelings of grief normally associated with a person's death, there may be guilt, anger, resentment, remorse, confusion and great distress, with the ever-present question: “Why?”
In this interview, Dr. Robert Neimeyer will share his insights into how we can work with the families and friends of suicide victims and help them through this traumatic event, even decades later.
Target audience: Psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, addiction counselors, nurses.
Content Category: Clinical
Format: Asynchronous, distance learning. Non-interactive. Recorded audio.
This CE program is designated as intermediate.
There are no known conflicts of interest or commercial support to disclose.
Author Bio
Robert A. Neimeyer, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, where he also maintains an active clinical practice. Neimeyer also serves as Director of the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, which offers training and certification in grief therapy. Since completing his doctoral training at the University of Nebraska in 1982, he has published 30 books, including a series of volumes on Techniques of Grief Therapy and Grief and the Expressive Arts, the latter with Barbara Thompson, and he serves as Editor of the journal Death Studies. The author of nearly 500 articles and book chapters, he is currently working to advance a more adequate theory of grieving as a meaning-making process, both in his published work and through his frequent professional workshops for national and international audiences.
Dr. Neimeyer served as President of the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC), and Chair of the International Work Group for Death, Dying, & Bereavement. In recognition of his contributions, he has been granted the Eminent Faculty Award by the University of Memphis, made a Fellow of the Clinical Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, and given Lifetime Achievement Awards by both the Association for Death Education and Counseling and the International Network on Personal Meaning. In addition, as one of the foremost authorities on bereavement and grief. He presents a weekly question and answer column in AfterTalk, a weekly question and answer column. AfterTalk.com is an online grief support site offering inspirational stories, poems and quotes, and forums on the grieving process.
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Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, the participant should be able to:
- Demonstrate the similarities that suicide shares with all deaths, sudden deaths, and violent deaths.
- Show how to clinically address the client's questions about responsibility and blame.
- Illustrate a plan to select relational resources to help stabilize grief.
- Describe why grief therapy needs to be attachment and trauma informed.
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