This online course explores the dynamics of separation, grief, and mourning as integral aspects of normal development, focusing on their role in shaping an individual’s experience of loss. It provides a comprehensive understanding of various types of loss, the factors that amplify or alleviate the pain of grief, and the adjustments individuals must make in response. The course also examines how to assess potential pathological responses to loss and mourning, along with psychological treatments for both normal grief and complicated bereavement. Key topics include assessing grief, death and mortality across the lifespan, the connection between attachment theory and mourning, stage theories of grief, the psychodynamic perspective on loss, the neurobiology of the grieving brain, psychotherapy and treatment options, and an anthropological view of loss, grief, and mourning.
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Video Lecture: Assessing normal grief and complicated bereavement.
PPT Slides: Assessing Normal Grief & Complicated Bereavement
Section One: Assessment Component
Video Lecture: Loss throughout the lifespan.
PPT Slides: Loss throughout the lifespan.
Section Two: Assessment Component
Video Lecture: Attachment theory and the mourning process
PPT Slides: Attachment Theory and the mourning process
Section Three: Assessment Component
Video Lecture: Non-Linear Models for Coping with Bereavement
PPT Slides: Non-Linear Models for Coping with Bereavement
Section Four: Assessment Component
Video Lecture: Psychodynamic Perspective on Loss and Mourning
PPT Slides: Psychodynamic Perspective on Loss and Mourning
Session Five: Assessment Component
Paul M. Martin, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and the assistant director of The Center for Grief Recovery. He specializes in individual psychotherapy for those struggling with loss and grief and regularly offers continuing education workshops and case consultation for professionals working with complicated cases of bereavement. He also provides psychological debriefing in workplace settings that have experienced a death amidst their workforce and is sought after as an expert witness in litigation involving sudden and traumatic loss. Dr. Martin is an adjunct faculty member at both Northwestern University and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology where he teaches psychology coursework on psychopathology, psychodynamic theory and intervention, developmental psychology, and the psychology of loss, grief, and mourning. Dr. Martin is the author of Personal Grief Rituals: Creating Unique Expressions of Grief and Meaningful Acts of Mourning.
