Life Perspectives is approved by the National Association of Social Workers and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs and maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Reproductive Loss: Facilitating the Grieving Process
Approximately two million couples experience reproductive loss through miscarriage or abortion every year in the United States. Studies indicate that many of these couples silently mourn without the social support necessary to make sense of their loss. As a mental health professional you are in a unique position to identify unresolved grief and to facilitate a healthy grieving process.
"I appreciate the specific clinical tools and skills that I can directly use." - Social Worker, Sharp Mary Birch Hospital
Course Schedule:
Hour 1 Disenfranchised Grief & Reproductive Story
Hour 2 Reproductive Grief and Loss
Hour 3 Therapeutic Strategies & Case Studies
Health care professionals are in a unique position to offer compassionate support and provide healing resources to their patients. Our 60-90 minute medical in-service will broaden your understanding of reproductive loss, introduce you to best practices, and equip you to enhance patient care.
In-Service will cover:
– Reproductive loss in-take
– Compassionate response
– Effective support referrals
Safe Place Training is for leaders who want their organizations to become a safe place for men and women to share about loss and begin the healing journey. This 3 hr. seminar provides understanding and equips attendees with the tools they need to make a difference.
“Excellent course. I feel empowered to help both the men and women who are dealing with loss” – Mary, Staff Nurse, Pregnancy Resource Centers of Central Oregon
Training Will:
- Broaden your understanding of grief & loss after miscarriage and abortion
- Explore how to be a safe place for hurting men & women
- Provide best practices to help those in your community
As friends and family members, volunteers and professionals, we all know and meet men and women who have been impacted by reproductive loss due to miscarriage, abortion or infertility. This one-hour webinar will place these experiences in the context of human loss, discuss the grieving process, and equip you to communicate to clients and loved ones that they are not alone and that healing resources are available.
Participants will:
– Become familiar with the concept of Reproductive Grief & Loss
– Discuss language to acknowledge loss and invite healing
– Introduce healing resources and tools to effectively provide support
Explore free resources that will help you understand the nature of reproductive loss, and equip you to help those in your community who are hurting. These resources include videos, audio files for streaming, and downloadable documents to use in your organization or private practice.
The Life Perspectives Instructor Program is for those who wish to conduct Safe Place or Continuing Education trainings on Life Perspectives’ behalf. Those who take part in this program are deeply committed to changing culture so that men and women no longer have to suffer in silence. If you are interested in becoming an instructor, please use the contact form.
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