Techniques of Grief Therapy: A Meaning Focused Approach
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Grief Therapy Workshop with Dr. Robert Neimeyer. Attendance provides 14 CEUs and 2 of 3 steps to certification in Grief Therapy.
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Day 1: Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Identify dimensions of insecure attachment that complicate adaptation to the death.
- Summarize the Two-Track Model of bereavement and its use in identifying problems meriting
- clinical attention.
- Apply Secure Base Mapping to trace sustaining bonds over time to identify internal and external
- resources to promote adaptation to life transitions.
Please bring an item for "show and tell" that
- Reminds you of a loved one, such as photos of a special occasion you shared or a gift the person gave you,
- Belonged to the loved one, such as a keepsake or a precious memento, or
- Symbolizes the loved one, like a tool that reminds you of a father's carpentry, or a wooden spoon that represents a grandmother's cooking, even if it did not belong to that person.
Day 2: Trauma-Informed Grief Therapy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Distinguish between therapeutic “presence” and “absence” in the process of
- therapy
- Summarize the essential features of Meaning Reconstruction and trauma-
- informed models of grief and outline their implications for grief therapy
- Implement Restorative Retelling procedures for mastering the story of the loss
Directions to the Carl Grant Event Center: https://www.uu.edu/grantcenter/directions-parking.cfm
*Registration Deadline: November 7th*