Strategies of Grief Therapy a workshop by Professor Robert Neimeyer - Tuesday 28 June 2011
An interactive workshop using cutting edge theory and research, therapeutic videos, demonstrations and exercises to convey how grief therapy methods work and feel in the context of practice.
This workshop is offered by the Centre for Personal Construct Psychology and the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course at the University of Hertfordshire
Date: Tuesday 28 June 2011
Time start: 8.15am registration for 9.00am start
Time finish: 5.00pm
Location: College Lane Campus
Cost: £125
About the event
As grief theory and research have grown to include emotion-focused, attachment and meaning-oriented approaches, so too has the range of methods available to grief therapists.
This workshop explores these perspectives, with a focus on four methods including:
- Grief work
- Narrative work
- Continuing bonds work
- Imagery work
A case study
A centrepiece of the workshop will be a case study of Deborah, who is struggling with debilitating grief over the death of her mother in a way that constrains her relationships with significant people in her current life.
In each section of the workshop, segments of Deborah’s therapy will help convey how theoretical principles can be put into practice, from assessing complications in grieving to illustrating the synergy of different therapeutic strategies in fostering rapid change.
The result is a collaborative and healing “performance” of new meaning by client and therapist, one that gives rise to a renewed bond between the client and her mother, and a revitalized sense of the client’s own life.
An interactive workshop
This interactive workshop uses cutting edge theory and research, therapeutic videos, demonstrations and exercises to convey how the methods work and feel in the context of practice.
Learning outcomes
You will leave with a clearer conceptualisation of processes that foster and impede constructive meaning-making in bereavement, as well as an expanded toolbox to facilitate the former and overcome the latter.
- Unique contributions of attachment and trauma theories to working with loss
- Features of complicated grief that determine when treatment is indicated
- Forms of narrative work and identifying strategies for working with each
- Methods for working with the continuing bond to foster grief adaptation
- Uses of imagery and metaphor to foster the articulation and reconstruction of loss experiences
- Identifying process impediments to transcending grief that arise from the ongoing relationship to the deceased and how to resolve them.
About Professor Robert Niemeyer
Bob Neimeyer is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Memphis and a leading authority on constructivist psychotherapy and on grieving as a meaning-making process. He has conducted research on the topics of death, grief, loss, and suicide intervention and he has published extensively in these areas.
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