Trauma 104: Grief and Trauma

Pittsburgh, PA US
April 16, 2024

This workshop offers participants the opportunity to explore the complexities of grief, its many stages, information about how the brain processes grief and loss and healthy and less healthy messages to transmit to a grieving person. Information on how children and teens grieve differently than adults is also included. Participants learn how grief and trauma intersect.

There are opportunities to share thoughts, feelings, sensations, and memories associated with grieving. Several video clips are shown that enhance and enrich our understanding of the needs of the grieving person and ways to effectively meet those needs. Participants learn the basics of being an effective Grief Processor when supporting someone mourning a significant loss.

Target Audience

ISD Clinical Staff

Learning Objectives

ANCC & Social Work Learning Objectives:             

  1. Describe the three stages of recovery from trauma
  2. Explain the differences between grief and trauma
  3. Discuss traumatic distress symptoms and skills to becoming a more intentional grief processor

 

Pharmacy Learning Objectives:

  1. Assess personal understanding of the difference between grief and trauma
  2. Understand how to recognize traumatic distress symptoms and how to become a more intentional grief processor 
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.00 ACPE Pharmacy
    The UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
  • 3.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 3.00 ASWB
  • 3.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
03/08/2024
Course expires: 
05/17/2024
Event starts: 
04/16/2024 - 9:00am EDT
Event ends: 
04/16/2024 - 12:00pm EDT
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Program begins at 9:00am and ends at 12:00pm.  Total Education Time = 3 Hour(s)

TIME

CONTENT

PRESENTER

9:00 – 10:00am

Review of the three stages of recovery from trauma

Joel Brecht CRC, LPC

10:00 – 11:00am

Discuss the differences between grief and trauma with focus on respecting the process of grieving that accompany processes of resolving trauma

Joel Brecht CRC, LPC

11:00 – 12:00pm

Present and discuss traumatic distress symptoms

Joel Brecht CRC, LPC

UPMC Health Plan
600 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
United States
Joel Brecht CRC, LPC
Nationally Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor. Worked for over 25 years within the mental health field including working with persons with disabilities.  Worked in various treatment settings including Drug and Alcohol treatment, Head Trauma, Community and School Based Behavioral Health, Homeless Shelters, and Residential treatment. Provided treatment and support to a wide range of ages including geriatrics, children, adolescents, and adults. Pennsylvania State trainer for LGBTQI issues in counseling, providing trainings to service providers across the state. Advisory Board member for Keystone Pride Recovery Initiative.

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Pharmacy (CPE)
This knowledge-based activity provides 3 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit(s).   Pharmacists Only: As required by the ACPE, credits will be uploaded to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP). It is the responsibility of the pharmacist/pharmacy technician to provide the correct NABP Board ID and DOB in their UPMC continuing education account, http://cce.upmc.com   and complete the evaluation by the required due date. Credit will not be uploaded to the NABP if the process is not complete by the required due date.

 

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 3 contact hour(s).

 

This activity is eligible for endorsed credit for UPMC Health Plan EMTs and Paramedics.  Complete ETHOS course work, obtain the attendance certificate, and submit to EMS governing body for 3 CE credit(s).

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 3 continuing education credit(s).

CCM CE will be provided:  3 CE - CCM COA will be sent via email from UPMC Health Plan nurse planner approximately 6-8 weeks following the live date of the course.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

NOTE:  Paramedic/EMT CE is approved for any activity in which ANCC (nursing CE) is approved.  This is per Heather Bogdon and Christie Hempfling

Available Credit

  • 3.00 ACPE Pharmacy
    The UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
  • 3.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 3.00 ASWB
  • 3.00 Attendance
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