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Sexual Bereavement: Sexuality at End of Life and in Grief

Course
Virtual
1 CE Hour
Clinical

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Location

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    Access virtually on TPN.health
Description

Grief, illness (acute and chronic) and sexuality have something in common: the vulnerable nature of each make it extremely challenging to address. When these elements intersect, the challenge is multiplied exponentially. In this training, Kailey Bradley, LPCC-S, counselor and grief specialist, will discuss the necessity for those in helping professions to be able to recognize the distinct nuances involved in working with the intersection of sexuality and grief. She will discuss the role of mental health stigma, challenges relevant to the impact of illness on sexuality, and ways in which sexuality and grief can be addressed from a practitioner-lead perspective.

Target Audience
  • • Counselor
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Psychologist
  • • Social Worker
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to prepare helping professionals to broach a difficult topic/intersection: sexuality and grief.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain how the mental health field has stigmatized and overlooked the role of both grief and sexuality in psychological functioning.

  • Identify and describe at least two challenges that illness and loss pose in sexual functioning.

  • Summarize how to help clients address, acknowledge, and validate the role of sexuality in their lives throughout illness processes and through the grief process.

References

  • Radosh, A., & Simkin, L. (2016). Acknowledging sexual bereavement: a path out of disenfranchised grievance. Reproductive Health Matters , 24 (48), 25–33.

  • Nolan R., Kirkland C., & Davis R. (2021). LGBT* After Loss: A Mixed-Method Analysis on the Effect of Partner Bereavement on Interpersonal Relationships and Subsequent Partnerships. Omega, 82(4), 646–667. https://doi-org.proxy.library.ohio.edu/10.1177/0030222819831524

  • Timmins, L., Pitman, A., King, M., Gao, W., Johnson, K., Yu, P., Braybrook, D., Roach, A., Marshall, S., Day, E., Rose, R., Clift, P., Almack, K., Yi, D. H., Bristowe, K., & Harding, R. (2023). Does the impact of bereavement vary between same and different gender partnerships? A representative national, cross-sectional study. Psychological Medicine, 53(9), 3849–3857. https://doi-org.proxy.library.ohio.edu/10.1017/S0033291722000496

Clinical
Counselor

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Marriage & Family Therapist

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Psychologist

Pending review.

Social Worker

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1 Clinical continuing education credits. ASWB ACE Credit is not available in NY and NJ.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Counseling Services

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by the Association for Adult Development and Aging (AADA). There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Kailey Bradley MA, LPCC-S, NCC, FT

Kailey is a licensed professional counselor, nationally certified counselor, and fellow in thanatology.  She has a background in hospice work and feels that companioning and advocating for grievers is her life’s passion. In addition to counseling, she is an adjunct professor at Ashland Theological seminary where she teaches grief counseling courses and Marian University where she teaches courses on Childhood Bereavement, Pediatric Hospice Care, and Expressive Arts in Counseling. Kailey is also a doctoral student at Ohio University in counselor education and supervision. Kailey is passionate about advocacy and service to children and families, most recently being awarded as an emerging leader through the Association of Child and Adolescent Counseling and nominated as the president elect of the Association of Child and Adolescent Counseling Ohio branch.    Kailey has also done a wide range of trainings and presentations on children’s bereavement, neuroaffirming care, spirituality, and sexuality.

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