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404. Surviving Suicide Loss: Making Your Way Beyond the Ruins 1.25 credit hours Continuing Education Accreditations applicable to this workshop: ASWB, NBCC, NAADAC, IBCC, Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling Continuing Medical Education Accreditations applicable to this workshop: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit, AOA Category 2A credits, Georgia Nurses Association, AAFP Level: Intermediate Rita Schulte, M.A. Rita Schulte LPC

cally focused on helping clients cope with trauma, often over looking the potential for resilience and growth. This workshop, designed for licensed mental health professionals and ministry leaders, provides clinical guidance for working with suicide loss survivors. Participants will explore three key areas of im pact that can facilitate PTG, providing clinicians with a road map to assist clients in reconstructing new, sustainable frame works of meaning. Specific focus will be given to Narrative Therapy, Parts Work, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) exercises as tools for meaning-making reconstruction. Attend ees will also examine how tacit assumptions about life, one’s spiritual beliefs, and the world are challenged by trauma and be equipped to guide survivors toward a more resilient and integrated sense of self. Through the personal and professional experiences of the presenter—both a suicide loss survivor and clinician—this workshop will prepare clinicians to work effec tively with suicidal clients and those left behind by suicide. Learning Objectives 1. Identify and describe three key areas of impact that affect suicide loss survivors. 2. Discuss meaning-making reconstruction for loss survivors using Narrative therapy, parts work, and DBT exercises. 3. Identify resilience-building skills that will move survivors toward PTG and discuss how to target clients with underde veloped and overdeveloped skills.

Wendy Douglas, M.A. Delight by Grace

Summary Suicide is a traumatic event that disrupts survivors’ previously stable constructs about life, often shaking the very foundations of their assumptive world. While post-traumatic growth (PTG) has gained increasing attention, many clinicians have histori

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