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The Loneliness Epidemic: How to Support Clients Who Feel Unseen Unheard and Devalued

3 CE Hours
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About the Course

The United States Surgeon General has referred to loneliness as a silent epidemic, affecting close to 50% of the US population and negatively impacting people’s mental and physical health. In fact, in the US, more than 25% of emergency room visits are said to be related to loneliness. Loneliness does not refer to being physically alone in a particular environment. Rather, loneliness is related to feeling alone in our hearts – it is the feeling of being emotionally disconnected from others. As human beings, we all know how devastating effects of loneliness on mental health can be. And as mental health professionals, we’ve seen clients in the throes of this painful emotion. We’ve all had a client who enters sessions closed-off and unreachable no matter how hard we try to break through. When clients are combating feelings of loneliness (and often, shame), sharing intimate details about these painful experiences with a stranger can feel impossible. Many clients have simply never learned the vocabulary to describe their emotions and explain what they’re going through. This course will focus on breaking down loneliness into its subcomponents – feeling unseen, unheard, and devalued, as well as offer practical steps clinicians can implement to help their clients to identify feelings of loneliness, reduce stigma they may be carrying about experiencing this universal emotion, and learn ways to cultivate their feelings of belonging.

This course is based on the recorded webinar, The Loneliness Epidemic: How to Support Clients Who Feel Unseen Unheard and Devalued created by Janina Scarlet in 2024.

Publication Details

Publication Date: First Jul 2024

Course Material Author

Janina Scarlet, PhD
Clinical Psychologist Dr. Janina Scarlet is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, author, and a full-time geek. A Ukrainian-born refugee, she survived Chernobyl radiation and persecution. She immigrated to the United States at the age of 12 with her family and later, inspired by the X-Men, developed Superhero Therapy to help patients with anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Dr. Scarlet is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award by the United Nations Association for her work on Superhero Therapy. Her work has been featured on Yahoo, BBC, NPR, Sunday Times, CNN, CW, ABC, Huffington Post, The New York Times, Forbes, the Nerdist, BuzzFeed, and many other outlets. She currently works at the Center for Stress and Anxiety Management in San Diego. She authored Superhero Therapy, Harry Potter Therapy, Therapy Quest, Dark Agents, Super-Women, Supernatural Therapy, as well as numerous contributions to Star Wars Psychology, Star Trek Psychology, Wonder Woman Psychology, Supernatural Psychology and many other books.
Disclosures
She receives royalties as a published author, and receives recording royalties for this presentation.

Target Audience

Counselors, doctors, marriage and family therapists, nurses, nurse practitioners, psychologists and social workers. Intermediate and above levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Define what loneliness is and its subcomponents.
  2. 2 Describe the detrimental impacts of loneliness on people’s mental and physical health.
  3. 3 Demonstrate three strategies to help clients to decrease the feelings of loneliness and increase feelings of belonging.

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The planners of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

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There are no known relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Course Creator

Janina Scarlet, PhD – She receives royalties as a published author, and receives recording royalties for this presentation.

Commercial support

There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

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Course Details

3 CE Hours
Recorded Webinar
Course 103624

Related Topics

Loneliness

Availability

This course is available until Nov 20th, 2034.

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