PGT in practice: 3 cases with lasting lessons – 1 CE Add On

Product Description

Overview

In this case-based presentation, Dr. Magoon will explore three challenging patient treatment courses that left lasting lessons.

Dr. Magoon will review the data on treatment outcomes for PGD studies and place this data in the context of treatment challenges. He will then cover each of the core PGT themes and corresponding experiential activities including psychoeducation/information sharing, grief monitoring, goals work, imaginal revisiting, situational revisiting, memories forms, and the imaginal conversation. With this background he will explore three challenging cases and what lasting lessons they’ve left, namely the importance of emphasizing the emotional difficulty and time commitment of treatment, navigating a patient/client’s involvement in a legal process related to the death, and building motivation to complete exposures.

Learning Objectives

1. Attendees will have an understanding of the outcome data from the randomized controlled trials that validated Prolonged Grief Therapy
2. Attendees will understand the core components of PGT
3. Attendees will consider three lessons learned from the presenter’s experience in providing PGT

About the Presenter

Dr. Magoon is a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a T32 research fellow at Harvard Medical School. After receiving an undergraduate degree in History from Yale University, He received his Medical Degree from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine before completing psychiatry residency at Columbia University Medical Center.

His research focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Prolonged Grief Disorder, as well as the intersection of grief and other medical and psychiatric comorbidities. At Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Magoon also works as a staff psychiatrist at the Center for Anxiety, Trauma, and Grief Disorders, as well as in the psychiatric emergency department.

His writing for the popular press has appeared in The Atlantic, NPR, Scientific American, Huffington Post, and Foreign Policy, among others. His peer-reviewed work has been published in Academic Psychiatry, The Journal of General Internal Medicine, Palliative and Supportive Care, and CMAJ, among others.

Continuing Education

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 marriage and family therapists (#MFT-0080) and licensed mental health counselors (#MHC-0104).

Note: Non-NYS social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors, 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.