Overview

The Center for Complicated Grief’s workshops focus on knowledge and skills needed to work with complicated grief (CG) using a time-limited, targeted psychotherapy that has been tested and proven efficacious in three large NIMH-funded randomized controlled trials.

This one-day workshop is designed to provide a conceptual framework for understanding grief and adaptation to loss generally and in relation to CG. We include strategies and procedures for screening, diagnosis and assessment of individuals with CG and discuss how to differentiate this condition from major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. We provide an overview of complicated grief therapy (CGT) and introduce some simple, practical procedures that you can use in your practice.

Learning Objectives

Through a combination of didactic content, interactive activities and group discussions, you will learn how to:

• Demonstrate understanding of acute, integrated and complicated grief and adaptation to loss by explaining these concepts to a friend or family member
• Implement effective screening, diagnosis and assessment procedures with bereaved clients
• Recognize differences between CG, PTSD and MDD
• Introduce and explain the use of a grief monitoring diary

Who should attend?

• Psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, physicians and nurses.

• Any member of a helping profession that works with grief

• Graduate student in an accredited health or mental health program interested in working with grief

Ticket Information

Professional Registration Fee: $200.00

Student Registration Fee: $100.00

Registration to this event is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. The registration deadline is 24 hours before the workshop begins. Please note that registration will be closed once all of our slots are filled, which may be in advance of this deadline.

CE Information

The Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia School of Social Work is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed social workers (provider #0021), licensed mental health counselors (#MHC-0104), and licensed marriage and family therapists (#MFT-0080). This program is approved for 6.5 continuing education contact hours.

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

Please note that in order to receive your continuing education certificate, you must attend the entire workshop and complete the evaluation. There is a 15 minute grace period. Any participant who arrives past 9:15 AM OR leaves earlier than 4:45 PM will not receive CE credits. Refunds are not provided for late arrivals or early departures. Please plan accordingly.

Refund and Transfer Policy

Fees will be refunded less a processing fee including EventBrite fees, if written notification by the Center for Complicated Grief (training@complicatedgrief.columbia.edu) is received by two weeks prior to the workshop date. After this time, registrations will not be refunded.

If written notification is received by the Center for Complicated Grief (training@complicatedgrief.columbia.edu) 24 hours prior to the workshop date, we can provide transfer credit less a processing fee to another one of our workshops, these do not include CSSW OPE. There will be no exceptions to this policy.

Special Accommodations and Grievance Policy

For information on special accommodations or our grievance policy, please visit: https://socialwork.columbia.edu/policy-and-privacy-statements/special-accommodations-grievance-policy/ .