The Big Picture: Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy Principles & Procedures

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Workshop Description

Overview

The Big Picture: Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy Principles & Procedures

The Center for Prolonged Grief’s workshops focuses on knowledge and skills needed to work with prolonged grief disorder (PGD) 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 the death of a loved one generally and in relation to PGD. We include strategies and procedures for screening, diagnosis, and assessment of individuals with PGD, and discuss how to differentiate this condition from major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. We provide an overview of prolonged grief disorder therapy (PGDT) and introduce some simple, practical procedures that you can use in your practice.

Presenter(s): Natalia Skritskaya, PhD & Meredith Charney, PhD

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

Learning Objectives

Demonstrate understanding of acute, integrated, and prolonged 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 PGD, PTSD, and MDD

Introduce and explain the use of a grief monitoring diary

Ticket Information

Professional Registration Fee: $175.00

Psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, physicians, and nurses or members of a helping profession that works with grief.

Student Registration Fee: $87.50

Graduate students in accredited health or mental health programs interested in working with grief.

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. 6.5 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. 6.5 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. 6.5 live, online CE contact hours will be awarded to NYS licensed marriage and family therapists 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 Prolonged 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 duration of the workshop and complete the evaluation survey. There is a 15- minute grace period. Refunds are not provided for late arrivals or early departures. Please plan accordingly.

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

Refund & Transfer 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 two weeks prior to the workshop date.

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

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.