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Pre-Death Grief and Loss Series:
A Quest for Meaning in Terminal Illness
Earn Credits for 2 Orientation Modules
and 2 Techniques Modules toward
Certification in Grief Therapy as Meaning Reconstruction
or Certification in Family-Focused Grief Therapy
Offered by the Portland Institute.
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Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD
Director, Portland Institute for Loss and Transition
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Memphis
In the course of counselling, you may come across clients who foresee their own impending death and separation from their loved ones through different illness and dying trajectories. This training will introduce meaning reconstruction perspectives to understand the meaning crisis in illness contexts and examine the resulting death anxiety and preparatory grief as experienced by those who are diagnosed with a terminal illness. It will also equip learners with meaning-oriented intervention tools to facilitate life review and enhancement of sense of self, as well as to prepare these clients to face various challenges in the end-of-life phase and their eventual death.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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Examine the threat of terminal illness and its implications from the Tripartite Model of Meaning Reconstruction
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Address the pre-death anxiety, preparatory grief and unfinished business distress
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Implement meaning-oriented techniques to facilitate the quest for meaning in the face of terminal illness and impending death
GRIEF COUNSELLING FUNDAMENTALS COVERED
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Terminal illness as a crisis of meaning
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Use of Virtual Dream Stories to explore death anxiety and preparatory grief
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Use of My Life Footprints to facilitate life review
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Spiritual distress and hope along the dying trajectory
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Use of Feast of My Life as a form of life celebration and legacy building
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Application of various assessment tools to examine different dimensions of preparatory grief, differentiate between palliative grief and depression, and evaluate dying patient’s sense of dignity
Come and Join Us!
Check out the other onsite workshop on
An Attachment-Informed Approach
to Grief & Loss
on 20-21 January 2025.
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Carolyn Ng, PsyD, MMSAC, RegCLR
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GRIEF TRAINING FACULTY
Carolyn Ng, PsyD, MMSAC, RegCLR maintains a private practice, Anchorage for Loss and Transition, for training, supervision and therapy in Singapore, while also serving as an Associate Director of the Portland Institute. Previously she served as Principal Counsellor with the Children’s Cancer Foundation in Singapore, specialising in cancer-related palliative care and bereavement counselling. She is a registered counsellor, master clinical member and approved supervisor with the Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC), a Fellow in Thanatology with the Association of Death Education and Counselling (ADEC), USA, as well as a consultant to a cancer support and bereavement ministry in Sydney, Australia. She is a trained end-of-life doula and advanced care planning facilitator. She is also trained in the Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, USA, community crisis response by the National Organisation for Victim Assistance (NOVA), USA, as well as Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) by LivingWorks, Canada. Her recent writing concerns meaning-oriented narrative reconstruction with bereaved families, with an emphasis on conversational approaches for fostering new meaning and action.Find out more at: www.anchorage-for-loss.org.
Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, and maintains an active consulting and coaching practice. He also directs the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition (www.portlandinstitute.org), which provides online training internationally in grief therapy. Neimeyer has published 33 books, including New Techniques of Grief Therapy: Bereavement and Beyond, and serves as Editor of the journal Death Studies. The author of over 500 articles and book chapters and a frequent workshop presenter, he is currently working to advance a more adequate theory of grieving as a meaning-making process. Neimeyer served as President of the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) and Chair of the International Work Group for Death, Dying, & Bereavement. In recognition of his scholarly contributions, he has been granted the Eminent Faculty Award by the University of Memphis, made a Fellow of the Clinical Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, and given Lifetime Achievement Awards by both ADEC and the International Network on Personal Meaning.
Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD
GRIEF TRAINING WORKSHOP DETAILS
Dates: 16-17 January 2025
Time: 9am - 5pm
Venue: Lifelong Learning Institute
For enquiries, please call: 6425-2422
WORKSHOP FEE
Regular Fee: SGD$975
Early Bird: SGD$900
~ Check with AHD for PCG status ~
EARLY BIRD till 5 December 2024
Just SGD$900 for 2-day workshop!
(Inclusive of lunch & 2 tea breaks)
For workshop enquiries and registration, please email davegoh@ahd.com.sg.
For certification enquiries, please email carolyn@portlandinstitute.org.
In collaboration with the Academy of Human Development (AHD) in Singapore, PI provides multiple training series in Meaning Reconstruction Grief Therapy for professionals from diverse disciplines.
