This training is for clinicians seeking to expand their therapeutic toolkit for working with grief and loss. This training will explore creative, expressive-arts-based approaches to grief therapy, such as art, journaling, movement, ritual, and music, to help clients express and process their emotions in ways that go beyond verbal expression. You will learn how these creative interventions can facilitate emotional release, deepen self-awareness, and support clients in finding meaning and transformation through their grief. Through experiential exercises and practical strategies, you will leave with new tools to integrate into their practice to help clients heal and honor their grief in unique and empowering ways.
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to
- Identify the clinical benefits of creativity and expressive arts for managing grief
- Analyze how creative interventions address symptoms
- Implement creative strategies with clients
Syllabus:
Introduction
Objective #1: Identify the clinical benefits of creativity and expressive arts for managing grief
- Creativity as a healing tool
- How creativity facilitates emotional regulation
- Theoretical foundations
Objective #2: Analyze how creative interventions address symptoms
- Creative approaches to grief symptoms
- Emotional impacts
- Cognitive impacts
Objective #3: Implement creative strategies with clients
- Creating safe space in counseling for expression
- Intention-setting
- Processing
Summary/Q&A
Social workers completing this course receive 2 Clinical asynchronous continuing education credits.
For other board approvals, this course qualifies for 2 Clinical continuing education training.
Instructor: Dreya Blume, LCSW
Recording Date: July 24,2025
CEUS On-Demand, LLC, provider #2274, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/7/2026 - 08/6/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 2hrs Clinical continuing education credits.
CEUs On-Demand, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7091. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CEUs On-Demand, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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