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Alive Hospice will offer a professional development session in Murfreesboro this November for mental health practitioners working with bereaved clients.

The three-hour program will focus on ethical decision-making, cultural awareness and clinical challenges that can arise when counseling people experiencing loss.

Presenter Ali Drescher, a licensed professional counselor and Fellow in Thanatology, will lead discussion on situations where standard clinical guidance may not provide a simple answer. Topics will include confidentiality after a client’s death, the effect of a counselor’s personal grief on professional practice and the influence of religious or cultural beliefs on perceptions of mourning.

The training will also address emerging issues in bereavement care, including artificial-intelligence tools modeled after deceased individuals, digital legacy services and grief-focused chatbots. Participants will examine Prolonged Grief Disorder as a clinical diagnosis and consider when bereavement may require additional intervention. Other objectives include identifying service gaps and developing strategies for ethically complex cases.

General admission is $50 before fees. Eventbrite adds a $5.20 service charge, bringing the total cost to $55.20 per participant.

Refunds may be requested up to five days before the program, and complimentary parking is available.

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The training is scheduled for Friday, November 13th, from 9 am to noon at Alive Hospice Murfreesboro Office and Residence, 1629 Williams Dr, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Doors open at 8:30 am.