Healing Through Understanding: Core Grief Concepts for Behavioral Health Providers

About this training

This training offers behavioral health professionals a foundational understanding of grief and its impact on emotional, cognitive, and behavioral functioning. Participants will explore key grief models, types of grief responses, and how loss influences mental health and treatment outcomes. Providers will learn to integrate grief-informed approaches into care, and support clients with compassion and clinical competence. By the end of the session, participants will be better equipped to provide empathetic, evidence-based support to individuals and families navigating loss and change. Training objectives: • Identify: Different types of grief • Differentiate: Between adaptive and maladaptive grief responses • Explore: How personal beliefs and biases influence clinical interactions • Discuss: assessment and evidence-based interventions to support the bereaved

Continuing education

• 1.5 CEUs (National Association of Social Workers – RI Chapter, RI Certification Board Chemical Dependency, and Licensed Mental Health Counselors through the RI Mental Health Counselors Association)
• 1.5 NBCC-approved continuing education credit hours
• Approved for 1.5 NAADAC CE Hours

Outside Rhode Island? TRAIN ED is nationally approved by NBCC and NAADAC (provider #339978). Many state boards accept these hours; check with yours before you register. Licensure & CEU resources

• Nov13

  Best Practices in Clinical Documentation

  Friday, November 13, 2026 · 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET

  • Nompelelo Boucher, PhD.
  • Live online via Zoom

  2.0 CEUs$35

  Register for Best Practices in Clinical Documentation (opens registration site)
• Nov17

  Women in Recovery: Pathways to Healing and Empowerment

  Tuesday, November 17, 2026 · 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET

  • Roxxanne Newman, PhD Candidate, MA, CPRS
  • Live online via Zoom

  2.0 CEUs$35

  Register for Women in Recovery: Pathways to Healing and Empowerment (opens registration site)