Northern Ireland Regional Committee
Present a workshop entitled:
Understanding and Treating Complicated Grief
Presenter: Anne Dodd, MIACP is a Psychotherapist, working in private practice. She has a Degree in Counselling & Psychotherapy and an MSc in Bereavement Studies. She is the current holder of the Thérése Brady Scholarship and in this capacity is undertaking a PhD on Complicated Grief in the School of Psychology at UCD.
Presenter: Dr Susan Delaney, Clinical Psychologist, is the Bereavement Services Manager in the Irish Hospice Foundation and manages the Complicated Grief Programme there. She is a member of the international Train - the - Trainers group with Prof. Kathy Shear at Columbia University.
Workshop Description: This workshop will provide participants with a strong grounding in Complicated Grief (CG). CG is a largely misunderstood disorder which affects about 10% of bereaved people. It is characterised by serious impairment in funtioning and an inability to engage satisfactorily with everyday life. A growing body of evidence indicates that CG does not respond well to traditional supportive counselling and newly developed protocols, such as Shear's CGT, are showing improved outcomes for this population.
Learning Outcomes: On completion of the workshop participants will be able to:
Differentiate between normal and complicated grief.
Recognise and assess complicated grief.
Have a conceptual understanding of why grief becomes complicated.
Learn simple, effective strategies for working with people who are stuck in the grief.
Be introduced to an evidence-based treatment protocol (CGT) for treating complicated grief.
Training Level: Intermediate