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Practice-Focused Training in Prolonged Grief Therapy

Practice-Focused Training in Prolonged Grief Therapy

Practice-Focused Training in Prolonged Grief Therapy

$487.50

Friday, June 12 – Saturday, June 13 | 9:00 AM-4:30 PM EDT

13.0 CE Hours

In this  two-day workshop, licensed mental health professionals will learn how to implement Prolonged Grief Therapy, a short-term, evidence-based treatment using active empathic listening, brief personalized interventions, companionship alliance, and a series of targeted procedures to help clients experiencing intense, persistent grief. 

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Date: Friday, June 12 – Saturday, June 13

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. EDT both days

Overview:

In this two-day workshop, you will learn how to implement a short-term, evidence-based treatment using active empathic listening, brief personalized interventions, companionship alliance, and a series of targeted procedures to help clients:

  • understand and accept grief and optimize their ability to manage emotional pain
  • think about the future
  • strengthen relationships with loved ones and others in their community
  • tell the story of the death
  • live with reminders of the loss
  • connect with memories of the deceased

Clips from actual treatment sessions are used to highlight core procedures.

Learning Objectives

  1. Provide psychoeducation about grief, adaptation to loss, prolonged grief, and key PGT procedures to a bereaved client.
  2. Analyze the similarities and differences between acute, integrated, and prolonged grief.
  3. Analyze the similarities and differences between Prolonged Grief (PG) , Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
  4. Describe four risk factors of PG.
  5. List four potential detailers of adaptation to a loss.
  6. Describe the six healing milestones that are a focus of PGT.
  7. Introduce grief monitoring to a client.
  8. Introduce aspirational goals and rewarding activities to a bereaved client.
  9. Provide a rationale for the Session with a Visitor.
  10. Describe the procedure of imaginal revisiting to a bereaved client.
  11. Introduce situational revisiting and create a list of avoided situations with a bereaved client.
  12. Describe the rationale and main procedures of working with Memories in PGT. 
  13. Plan a mid-treatment review with a bereaved client.

Presenters

Bonnie Gorscak, PhD and Natalia Skritskaya, PhD

Learn more about our workshop faculty: https://prolongedgrief.columbia.edu/about-us/our-team

Who Should Attend

This workshop is intended for licensed mental health professionals actively working with clients who wish to use the PGT to support bereaved individuals. Eligible participants include psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, and nurses.

If you are not a licensed therapist or are a graduate student in a health or mental health program, please contact us at training@complicatedgrief.columbia.edu before registering to determine whether this workshop is an appropriate fit for you.

Level of Programming 

Intermediate to Advanced

Registration – $487.50 USD

Registration includes participation in the workshop along with:

  • A Certificate of Completion issued upon completion of the workshop (13.0 contact hours)

  • A complimentary PGT Manual, Therapist Forms, Client Forms and Handouts, and PG Assessment Measure Packet (valued at $84.95)

Continuing Education Information

American Psychological Association

The Center for Prolonged Grief at Columbia School of Social Work is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for Prolonged Grief maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Note: Many state boards recognize the APA approval. Please check with your state licensing board.

New York State Education Department

  • NYSED Board for Social Work recognizes the Center for Prolonged as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (#SW‐0727).
  • NYSED State Board for Mental Health Practitioners recognizes the Center for Prolonged Grief as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors (#MHC-0104).
  • NYSED State Board for Mental Health Practitioners recognizes the Center for Prolonged Grief as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists (#MFT-0080).
  • NYSED State Board for Psychology recognizes the Center for Prolonged Grief as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0150).

Note: Non-NYS social workers, mental health counselors, and marriage and family therapists, please check with your state licensing board. Many states have recognized our continuing education programs as we are at a CSWE-accredited institution and part of a regionally accredited university.

Refund Policy

The registration fee will be returned if the Center for Prolonged Grief (training@complicatedgrief.columbia.edu) receives written notice up to one (1) week before the workshop.

Special Accommodations and Grievance Policy

Columbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require disability accommodations to attend an event at Columbia University, please contact Disability Services at 212-854-2388 or disability@columbia.edu and the Center for Prolonged Grief at training@complicatedgrief.columbia.edu at least 10 days in advance of the event.

If you have a question or concern about a workshop, non-receipt of a certificate, refund, or another issue related to the Center for Prolonged Grief’s continuing education programming, please email training@complicatedgrief.columbia.edu.

There is no commercial support or conflicts of interest with this course.