Upcoming Workshops
Healing through Loss and Grief
Wednesday September 10, 2008
Speaker
Rev. Edie Weinstein-Moser, MSW, LSW
Rev. Edie is a Pennsylvania Licensed Social Worker who graduated from Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) in Glassboro, NJ in 1981 with a BA in Psychology and with an MSW from Rutgers University in Camden, NJ in 1985. She was ordained as an Interfaith Minister in 1999, graduating from The New Seminary in New York City. She has worked in a variety of physical and mental health care settings, including hospitals, home care, nursing homes, out patient community mental health and in-patient acute psychiatric hospitals. In addition, she is a writer and educator. Edie has also been a family caregiver with direct experience of the death, dying, loss and grief process.
Details
RSVP Only 9:00am – 4:00pm PA 6 CEU’s $100 Approved
Description
Purpose and Goals:
This program is designed for social workers, counselors, nurses, other healthcare professionals and clergy who may work with individuals, families and groups facing major life losses, particularly those experienced during and after illness and death. Participants will learn information related to the physical, psychological and spiritual aspects of loss and grief that they can put to practical use in their personal and professional lives.
Course Content:
Participants will learn about issues central to loss and grief as they pertain to illness, the dying process and the aftermath of death, whether it stems from chronic/acute illness or traumatic incident. They will explore methods for being of assistance to those they serve while they allow for a deeper experience of their own perceptions and values around the issues of loss and grief. Subjects such as anticipatory grief, vicarious traumatization and caregiver burnout will be addressed.
Objectives:
Participants will learn and explore the concepts of loss and grief as they relate to the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of death and dying from the perspective of professionals and family members of those who have died.
Attendees will be able to identify expected dynamics incurred in the dying process as experienced by the individual and significant others in order to provide support. They will enhance active listening skills so that they can be fully present during the dying process and follow-up care of the family.
Participants will be able to clarify their own values with regard to death and dying and explore ways in which their own life experience may impact on the care they provide for others.
Attendees will identify self-care techniques and exploration regarding their own unresolved issues, morality and limitations based on such experiences.
Participants will be able to relate losses incurred as a result of death to other losses that their clients may experience, such as changing roles, ending of relationships, illness, and financial stressors. They will comprehend the importance of anniversary/holiday time frames as they relate to symptom recurrence.
Participants will identify rights of the dying individual. Attendees will identify the ways the ways that death is experienced and embraced by a variety of cultures and religions.
Participants will be able to facilitate a life review and have knowledge of how to answer the imponderable questions, such as “What happens after we die?”
Instructional Methods:
Handouts, lectures, dyad and group sharing, movement, visualization, music, sharing of stories, question and answer.