Facilitating Adaptation to Loss: Incorporating PGT Principles in Clinical Work
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Prolonged Grief Disorder therapy is an effective approach for individuals experiencing prolonged grief, offering proven efficacy in addressing their condition. Applying procedures from prolonged grief disorder treatment provides the clinician with a road map for a successful treatment. What does a therapist do when these procedures go awry? A case example will be presented to illustrate this dilemma and show exactly what a clinician did when this occurred.Overview
In this presentation, Dr. Dan Wolfson will highlight how the principles and practices of Prolonged Grief Treatment (PGT) can be utilized proactively with any grieving client to support the process of adaptation to loss and help protect against some of the complications that might otherwise lead to Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD). Following an introduction to the framework of acute and integrated grief as well as the three pillars central to the process of adapting to loss, Dr. Wolfson will explore his work with a 28-year-old male client who began following the sudden death of the client’s partner. Although this client began therapy during the phase of acute grief, techniques of PGT including grief monitoring, psychoeducation, situational revisiting, imaginal revisiting, and goals work were all utilized to help facilitate the client reaching a place of integrated grief. This presentation is well suited to any clinician working with grieving clients, including the bereaved who do not meet the diagnostic criteria for PGD.
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this webinar, attendees will be able to answer the following questions:
1. Participants will explain the differences between acute and integrated grief.
2. Participants will describe the pillars of adaptation to loss including accepting the reality of the loss, continuing bonds, and hopefulness for the future self.
3. Participants will be able to identify PGT strategies that can be incorporated into their clinical work with grieving individuals to help facilitate the process of adaptation to loss.
About the Presenter
Dr. Dan Wolfson is a clinical psychologist specializing in grief. He is the founder and director of Wolfson Psychology Group, a private practice in New York City, and the clinical director of Experience Camps’ Adult Grief Retreat. In addition to offering individual and group therapy to grieving clients, he provides acute crisis consultation and intervention to communities impacted by loss including schools and businesses. Dr. Wolfson completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University’s Center for Prolonged Grief where he pursued advanced training in the highly efficacious Prolonged Grief Treatment.
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Facilitating Adaptation to Loss: Incorporating PGT Principles in Clinical Work
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