Kara's Fall 2008 Conference: Mastery of Caregiving

Kara's Fall 2008 Conference: Mastery of Caregiving

November 14, 2008

 

Featured Speaker: Dr. Irv Yalom Leading American psychotherapist, author and creator of landmark approaches for facing death and healing from loss. Dr. Yalom is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford University and the author of several highly acclaimed textbooks, including Existential Psychotherapy and The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. He is also the author of stories and novels related to psychotherapy, including Love's Executioner, When Nietzsche Wept, Lying on the Couch, Momma and the Meaning of Life, and The Schopenhauer Cure. His latest non-fiction book is Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death.

 

This conference offers both inspiration and practical information for being compassionately present to those coping with life-threatening illness, death, and bereavement.

Whether your background is in hospice care, nursing, medicine, psychology, chaplaincy, or other, this conference will help you help others facing death or healing from grief and loss.

Continuing Education

This conference has been approved for 6.0 hours of Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for nurses by VAPA Nursing Education, CABORN Provider #00299. This conference meets the qualifications for 6.0 hours of CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. The BBS provider number is 618. The VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The VA Palo Alto Health Care System maintains responsibility for the program. This activity is offered for six (6) hours of CE credits. Psychologists are responsible for reporting their own credits to the MCEP Accreditation Agency and for remitting the course reporting fee.

Registration Fee (includes continental breakfast and lunch):

THROUGH October 31 
General Admission $125
VA Staff & Kara Volunteers $95
Students and Seniors (65 and older) $65

AFTER October 31
General Admission $150
VA Staff & Kara Volunteers $115
Students and Seniors (65 and older) $75

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Friday, November 14, 2008 at 7:45 AM (PT)

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SRI Conference Center
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025

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Kara - Grief Support and Education for Our Communi

Kara is a center offering compassionate peer support and education to individuals, families and organizations coping with death and dying. Our mission is to empower children, teens and adults to find their way through grief so that they can rebuild their lives with renewed hope and meaning. Our services include: - Training for Professionals - Individual counseling - Support Groups - Public Education - Onsite Grief Interventions

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