Product Description

Date: Friday, March 14 – Saturday, March 15, 2025

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. PST 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.

Presenters

Danielle Glorioso, LCSW & Liane Fry, LMFT

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

Eligibility

Licensed mental health professionals who are actively working with clients and want to use PGDT to help bereaved people. This includes psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, and nurses.

If you are either not licensed to provide therapy or a health or mental health program graduate student, contact us at training@complicatedgrief.columbia.edu before registering to determine if this workshop is an appropriate fit. 

Fee

$487.50 – Registration includes attendance to the workshop, certificate of completion**, and complimentary addition of PGDT Treatment Manual, Therapist Forms, Client Forms and Handouts, and PGD Assessment Measures (valued at $85)

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 State Board for Psychology recognizes the Center for Prolonged Grief as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0150).
• 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) and licensed marriage and family therapists (#MFT-0080).

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.