Nurturing Client's Grief and Loss Process

Marcia Perlstein, MA, MFT

About the workshop

In this workshop we will address the trajectory of the grief process. We will explore ways to honor our clients' individual paths as well as understand patterns described in Elizabeth Kubler Ross' seminal work and by others who followed. We'll address the delicate balance of supporting a client's individual path, yet helping those responses which often overlay psychological issues in individuals which have preceded the loss and are exacerbated during the grief process. We'll view similarities and differences in grieving a variety of loss by death on a continuum from long term illness to sudden death through illness, suicide or homicide. Participants are encouraged to bring specific case examples and questions.

Learn what stages are involved in the grieving process
Identify and treat pathological grief
Learn ways to return to work after suffering a personal loss
Present both problematical and successful grieving cases
Identify similarities and differences based on gradual versus sudden; death by illness or through suicide or homicide

About the presenter

Marcia Perlstein, MA, MFT , has been a practicing therapist, trainer of new and veteran
therapists in Berkely and San Francisco since 1967; now in Sequim, WA. She also consults
in areas such as impasses and logjams, preventing and addressing burn-out to name a few.

Ms. Perlstein is an American Association of Marriage Family Therapist (AAMFT) accredited
supervisor of supervisors and a consultant to staffs and training programs around the country
for pre-licensed as well as veteran therapists.
Her practice is eclectic based on forming a collaborative alliance with clients and trainees who
wish to work together to utilize the strengths they already have combined with the insights,
strategies and spiritual tools she might offer in helping them address painful patterns.

About the particulars

Location: Quality Inn, Oakwood-Spokane
When: August 16th, 2008
Hours: 1:00am-4:15pm
Fee: $55.00 US
CEU info: 3 CEU's Cascadia Training is approved by the NASW, Washington State Chapter, to provide continuing education units to Licensed Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists. Certificates of Completion are awarded to attendees at the end of each workshop. Provider number #1975-118, and is an OSPI approved provider of in-service education. This is a "Washington State Approved Clock Hour Offering Workshop."