Claire Bidwell Smith – Anxious Grief: Strategies for Working with the Missing Stage of Grief

*** Proof of Product ***

---

Exploring the Essential Features of “Claire Bidwell Smith – Anxious Grief: Strategies for Working with the Missing Stage of Grief”

Speaker:Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC

Duration:2 Hours 45 Mins

Format:Audio and Video

Copyright:Jan 31, 2024  

Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description

When a client presents with anxiety, does your clinical compass point to grief? 

While we may expect a client to feel sadness, pain, and hurt following a loss, we do not always expect them to feel anxiety—those pervasive feelings of dread, fear, panic, agitation, and uncertainty that often occur alongside unwanted, alarming, and unpredictable physical symptoms. 

From a clinical perspective, the connection between anxiety and grief makes sense. Loss reminds us of our inability to control the future, underscores our human vulnerability, and leaves us in a loop of “what ifs” – three hallmarks of anxiety. Yet, clients and clinicians alike are only just beginning to understand the many ways that anxiety and grief are connected—and now you can too. 

Watch grief expert, clinician, and acclaimed best-selling author Claire Bidwell Smith to learn strategies for working with what is often called the “missing stage” of grief: anxiety. Discover how you can help your clients navigate this often-overlooked facet of loss, process their grief on a deeper level, unpack their fears about mortality, and better bear vulnerability.  

Purchase today!

Speaker

Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC

Recognized as one of today’s foremost experts on grief, Claire Bidwell Smith is a licensed therapist, international speaker, and the author of five books published in 22 countries. Led by her own experience in grief and fueled by her work in hospice and private practice, Claire strives to provide support for all kinds of people experiencing all kinds of loss. clairebidwellsmith.com.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Claire Bidwell Smith maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Conscious Grieving Inc. She receives royalties as a published author. Claire Bidwell Smith receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Claire Bidwell Smith is a board member of The End Well Foundation.

Objectives

1. Analyze the connection between grief and anxiety and the implications for grief treatment. 
2. Explore the clinical importance of targeting anxiety to improve treatment outcomes. 
3. Investigate how techniques that help clients make amends with lost loved ones can help them overcome guilt-driven anxiety. 

Outline

What is Anxious Grief? 

• Drawing connection between anxiety and grief 
• When is anxiety grief-related? 
• Anxiety, grief, and anxious grief 
• The five stages of grief plus the missing one: anxiety 
• How long does anxious grief last? 

Techniques for Addressing Clients’ Grief-Related Anxiety 

• Assessment and identification of anxious grief 
• Recognizing masked anxiety symptoms 
• Strategies to normalize anxiety and panic 
• Helping clients get out from underneath their anxious grief:
• • Rewriting the story of loss 
  • Understanding the fallacy of worry 
  • Making amends to release guilt-driven anxiety 
  • Taking inventory 
  • The gift (and power) of writing 
  • Mindfulness for retraining the anxious brain 
  • Meaning-making and connection

Target Audience

• Counselors  
• Social Workers  
• Art Therapists
• Marriage and Family Therapists  
• Psychologists  
• Psychiatrists  
• School Counselors  
• School Psychologists  
• School Social Workers  
• Case Managers  
• Addiction Counselors  
• Pastoral Counselors  
• Chaplains/Clergy  
• Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners  
• Mental Health Nurses  
• Thanatologists  
• Death Doulas

Please see the full list of alternative group-buy courses available here: https://lunacourse.com/shop/