Error Working with Death, Illness and Loss
New Zealand · CPD points & talks · Psychologists
Enhance your practice with this comprehensive CPD for New Zealand psychologists, focusing on death, illness, and loss. Aviva Keren Barnett offers expert insights into grief, drawing on extensive case examples to illustrate impacts across the lifespan, including sudden and anticipated losses. Learn to effectively support clients and gain a new perspective on the therapist's crucial role.
Abstract:
In this clinically focused talk, existential psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and published author Aviva Keren Barnett offers a comprehensive exploration of grief both from the theoretical and practical perspectives. Drawing on case examples from over two decades of clinical experience, Aviva Keren Barnett provides mental health practitioners with a deep understanding of how grief can impact people across the lifespan. This talk looks at all types of loss, and provides case examples for each, including focusing on sudden and anticipated loss. This talk is ideal for psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, and other mental health professionals seeking a new found understanding of how to support clients navigating anticipatory loss and grief.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this talk, participants will be able to:
- Describe key theoretical models of grief and how they inform clinical practice.
- Apply a new found understanding to your clinical practice of how Spiritual and Cultural beliefs hinder or support people through loss.
- Apply understanding and insight to your clinical practice of how the grieving process is experienced by clients.
- Apply therapeutic insight and understanding when working with clients throughout different parts of their grieving journey.
- Apply new importance to the role of clinical supervision, as you learn to see the impact of this work on the therapist.
- Implement strategies to support grieving their families and assist bereaved clients in finding meaning after loss.
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