Wednesday, June 29, 2022

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Via Zoom

Earn 1 CEU credits

$15.00

In Part I we learned about the definitions of grief, loss, and mourning and how they apply to our own lives and to the lives of those we love, live with, and support in our communities. We learned that talking in a therapeutic relationship, for both the client and the clinician, helps minimize potential for residual trauma. For the clinician the induced feelings present a special challenge that may lead to actions subverting therapeutic resolution. Clinicians may misunderstand sympathetic responses for therapeutic ones. This normal inclination can be studied through examining the countertransference reactions, the induced feelings when in the presence of grieving or traumatized individuals. In Part II you’ll have the opportunity to present your own cases, stories, and experiences of grief and loss and receive support and ideas for interventions. This workshop will be helpful to anyone coping with or working with individuals coping with loss or overwhelming experiences.

Workshop Objectives:

   1.  Participants will be able to explore, through case material and personal narrative, the    development of interventions to prevent, minimize, and resolve pathological loss reactions.

  2.  Participants will be able to describe how inductions from the client to the therapist may influence therapeutic outcomes.

  3.  Participants will experience, observe, and participate in a supportive grief support group environment.

Mary Robinson, MA, CT, is currently in Private Practice in Madison, NJ where she works with individuals coping with grief and loss of any kind. She is the Founder and Executive Director Emeritus of Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss located in Mountainside, NJ and the Founder and former Executive Director of Good Grief in Morristown, NJ. She has over 35 years of business, management, technical, and training expertise in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors. Leaving the corporate world in 1997 to volunteer and work full-time in the field of children’s grief support, Ms. Robinson is committed to creating communities where children coping with loss get the support they need to thrive, be resilient, and grow up emotionally healthy. Working and volunteering in the field of children’s grief support grew out of Mary’s own personal experience of loss as a child. Her commitment is to work towards the day when no child grieves alone.

Mary has a BA in English, an MA in Applied Psychoanalysis and is a Certified Thanatologist. She is a member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, serves on the Board of the National Alliance for Grieving Children, and is Chair of the Board of the Academy for Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis in Livingston NJ.

 Professions eligible for CE credits after attending this event include:

      Counselors, Art Therapists, Marriage/Family Counselors - Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis (ACAP) has been approved by NBCC­ Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACAP #5709. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. ACAP is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

    NJ Social Workers - ICPS partners with ACAP and is a NECHE regionally accredited institution, and as such is an approved provider of CE hours for NJ Social Workers.

    Nurses - Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by New Jersey State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation Provider Number P297-5/21-24 

    NJ Psychoanalysts - ACAP, an ABAP nationally accredited school, is an approved CE provider for Psychoanalysts in New Jersey.    

       NYS Creative Art Therapists - ACAP is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Art Therapists as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0081

·    Psychologists - ACAP is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. ACAP maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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