UNIVERSITY of WISCONSIN-MADISON

Advanced Grief

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Summary

Advanced Grief is designed for professionals and individuals seeking to deepen their expertise in grief education and support. Building upon foundational knowledge presented in the Grief Support Specialist Certificate, this 12-hour, fully asynchronous and online course provides a uniquely designed interactive and experiential educational experience. While it is ideal for those who have already completed the Grief Support Specialist Certificate, the course is structured to be accessible and valuable as an experience for learners with a strong background in grief work. Drawing from a multitude of resources, the course will provide learners with a thorough understanding of specific grief concepts and theories, while also enhancing and building skills to be able to apply grief support in personal and professional lives.

How You Will Learn

Advanced Grief is fully asynchronous, with weekly deadlines for discussion assignments, but no set meeting times, allowing participants to work at their own pace within each week. There is ample time to reflect on course content and to integrate learning through discussion assignments, all within a supportive framework designed to keep participants on track and maximize the value of the educational experience. A summative quiz of material, with full access to notes, will also allow participants a chance to demonstrate understanding of materials and to solidify knowledge gained from the course.

Overview

About this program

This course includes five weeks of instruction. The fully online format provides a flexible schedule, making it possible to engage in a meaningful learning experience and complete the course without traveling or taking time off work.

Learning objectives

  • Understand loss and grief across context
  • Differentiate between primary loss and secondary loss
  • Describe how the brain, body and mind adapt to grief
  • Understand the clinical criteria and characteristics of Prolonged Grief Disorder
  • Differentiate between clinical depression and Prolonged Grief Disorder
  • Identify evidence-based treatment coping approaches for Prolonged Grief Disorder
  • Differentiate between Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth
  • Differentiate between Post-Traumatic Growth and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Explore best practices for facilitating Post-Traumatic Growth
  • Explore new developments, latest research, potential benefits and ethical concerns with the intersections of AI, social media, and grief
  • Understand the connection between collective grief, community well-being and equity
  • Integrate course content to apply to and/or enhance grief support work

Level

Intermediate to advanced

CEUs and Prerequisites

Advanced Grief provides 1.2 Continuing Education Units (12 hours of professional continuing education) for people in a variety of professions including, but not limited to, psychology, social work, counseling, and marriage and family therapy.

To enroll, we encourage you have a bachelor's degree and/or at least 3–5 years of experience in social services, non-profit, business, school, health care or counseling settings. We also highly encourage you complete the Grief Support Specialist Certificate or a course of similar or equal curriculum base prior to signing up for this course. This course may also be appropriate for professionals with specific experience in grief-centered social services careers.

Program Delivery and Time Commitment

This course is fully online with no real-time requirements. While the course is completely online, it is instructor-facilitated with significant interaction between students and includes follow-up communication on discussions from the instructor. Participants will be expected to listen and read lectures, complete discussion assignments and a final quiz.

Participants should expect about 2–3 hours of coursework per week, with a final quiz, all of which is included in the 12 hours of instruction. Participants will upload weekly reflections and interact with other participants via discussion boards and receive group feedback from the instructor.

It is possible to complete this course successfully while working full-time and caring for a family.

Is Now the Right Time?

If you have had a significant loss within the past year, you may want to consider delaying participation in this program. The content may be difficult to process so soon after your own loss. If this applies to you and you would like to discuss further, please contact Meghan Wilhelmi at meghan.wilhelmi@wisc.edu

Earn Continuing Education Hours

By participating in this class you will earn:

Instructional Hours 12
University of Wisconsin Continuing Education Units 1.2
American Psychological Association - Continuing Education Credit 12
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Substance Abuse Counselors - Continuing Education Credit Hours 12
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Marriage and Family Therapists - Continuing Education Credit Hours 12
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Social Workers - Continuing Education Credit Hours 12
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Licensed Professional Counselors 12

Explanation of Continuing Education Hours

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Program Questions?

Contact Meghan Wilhelmi at meghan.wilhelmi@wisc.edu or 608-263-2829

Registration Questions?

Email registration@cerc.wisc.edu or call 608-262-2451.

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Meet your instructor

Erica Srinivasan

(PhD) is an associate professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (UWL), where she also serves as the Director for the Center for Grief and Death Education and is the co-chair for the Gerontology Certificate. Additionally, she has been offering grief programming for UW-Madison’s Continuing Education for the past eight years. She is the lead instructor for the Grief Support Specialist Certificate, Advanced Grief, and additional classes. She also offers a Dementia Support Specialist Badger for UW-La Crosse Continuing Educaiton. In addition to teaching, she conducts research on grief and loss, medical-aid-in-dying, dementia, and death education. Dr. Srinivasan has a passion for normalizing conversations about aging, death, and grief, which serves as a foundation for all of her professional work.