Practice-Focused Training in Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy (PST)

TWO-DAY LIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP via ZOOM

Workshop Description

Overview

The faculty at the Center for Prolonged Grief offers this workshop covering principles, and practice of a 16-session treatment complicated grief therapy/prolonged grief disorder therapy (PGDT) that you can use for clients with prolonged grief. You will learn how to implement PGDT using active empathic listening, brief personalized interventions, companionship alliance, and a series of targeted procedures. You will learn how to use a grief monitoring diary to help clients understand and accept grief and optimize their ability to manage emotional pain. You will learn to help clients think about the future and strengthen relationships with loved ones and others in their community. With this background, you will learn how to help clients tell the story of the death, live with reminders and connect with memories of the deceased. Video examples will be used to demonstrate core treatment procedures.

Please note that PGD assessment and differential diagnosis will not be covered in this workshop. This is the focus of The Big Picture: PGDT Principles and Procedures workshop.

Presenters:

Danielle Glorioso, LCSW & Liane Fry, LMFT

To learn more about our workshop faculty: https://prolongedgrief.columbia.edu/about-us/our-team/#:~:text=PGDT%20Trainers%20and%20Supervisors

Learning objectives

1. Explain to a client the terms grief, adaptation to loss, and prolonged grief

2. Create a personalized case formulation

3. Demonstrate to a client how to use the grief monitoring diary

4. Utilize the strategies and procedures of aspirational goals work, imaginal and situational revisiting, and imaginal correspondence in practice with clients

Who is eligible to attend?

Licensed mental health professionals who 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 a graduate student in a health or mental health program, please contact us at training@complicatedgrief.columbia.edu prior to registering.

Prerequisite Requirement

Please read through the CGT Manual in advance of the workshop. Instructions on how to access the digital manual will be available upon registration in your confirmation email.

Ticket Information

Registration Fee: $487.50

Registration Fees includes Treatment Manual and Assessment Instruments in advance of the workshop.

Continuing Education Information

Social workers: Columbia School of Social Work is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. Provider #SW‐0021. 13.0 live, online CE contact hours will be awarded to NYS licensed social workers who meet the attendance requirements.

Mental health counselors: The Center for Prolonged 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 licensed mental health counselors. Provider #MHC-0104. 13.0 live, online CE contact hours will be awarded to NYS licensed mental health counselors who meet the attendance requirements.

Marriage and family therapists: The Center for Prolonged 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 licensed marriage and family therapists. Provider #MFT-0080. 13.0 live, online CE contact hours will be awarded to NYS licensed marriage and family therapists who meet the attendance requirements.

Psychologists: The Center for Prolonged Grief at Columbia University School of Social Work is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0150. 13.0 live, online CE contact hours will be awarded to NYS licensed psychologists who meet the attendance requirements.

Social workers, mental health counselors, and marriage and family therapists licensed out of New York state, please check with your state licensing board. Many states have recognized our continuing education hours as we are at a CSWE accredited institution and part of a regionally accredited university.

Psychologists: 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 Complicated Grief maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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

The Center for Prolonged Grief at Columbia University School of Social Work is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0150.

CE Certificate Requirements

Please note that in order to receive your continuing education certificate, you must attend the entire workshop (both days) and complete the evaluation. There is a 15- minute grace period. Refunds are not provided for late arrivals or early departures. Please plan accordingly.

A certificate of completion will be distributed via email within 2 weeks of the event ending to those meeting the attendance requirements.

Refund Policy

Fees will be refunded less Eventbrite fees if written notification by the Center for Prolonged Grief (training@complicatedgrief.columbia.edu) is received up to one week prior to the workshop date.

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 212-851-2107 or 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 or call 212-851-2107.