The Silent Wounds of Disenfranchised Grief: A Relational Perspective

1 CEU provided

Despite the prevalence ofdisenfranchisedgriefamong clients, the concept is not typically covered in counseling graduate training programs, leading to inaccurate assessment and treatment. In this course, learners will identify the different types ofdisenfranchisedgrief, emphasizing the newly expanded typology related to oppression, marginalization, and discrimination. This typology suggests that marginalized and minoritized individuals/populations experience multiple levels ofdisenfranchisement, compounded by intergenerational trauma, resulting in grief inequity. With this expanded view, clinicians can develop a more comprehensive and accurate conceptual framework of clients’ death and non-death losses.