Counseling for Grief, Loss and Life-Threatening Illness

Course number: CPSY x 680

This workshop is an intensive introduction to counseling and therapy issues encountered when working with people facing grief, loss and life-threatening illness. Topics covered will include: theories of attachment and loss; normal grief reaction and the tasks of grief; recent research and theory on complicated mourning; unresolved grief as an underlying clinical issue; grief and family systems; therapeutic interventions (existential, cognitive-behavioral, and process experiential) with people facing grief, loss or life-threatening illness; interdisciplinary team work in end-of-life care; facilitating end-of-life conversations; innovation in end-of-life care and antidotes to therapist burnout. Skill-building exercises are an important part of this course.

Instructor: Dale Larson, Ph.D.

Saturday, December 9, 2006
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Arts & Sciences Building, Wiegand Conference Room
.6 CEU or 6 CE hours
Cost: $140
Approved for: MFT/LCSW/RN/LVN/psychologists