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Fall Social Work Education Conference

Loss and Grief Process with a special emphasis on Veterans and their significant others.

February 20,2009
9:00am to 4:30pm
American Legion Robert H.Hoke Post 272
505 Mountain Road, Linglestown PA 17112
Co-Sponsored by Temple University Harrisburg and American Legion Rober H. Hoke Post 272

Description

Throughout life individuals experience various losses of persons, places, and things. The complexity of reactions to such losses impacts individuals, family systems, and communities. This workshop will address concepts of a theoretical nature to help professionals better understand the loss and grief process with particular emphasis given to those experiences unique to veterans and their significant others. The experiential nature of this workshop will have primary emphasis on therapeutic interventions. By recognizing the impact of loss and grief, providers will have a better understanding of how to address and treat these issues clinically.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this workshop participants will:

1.Understand significant factors of loss – Attachment, Nature of Loss, Comprehension of Loss and Location of Loss.
2.Review the loss cycle as perceived by various theorists (i.e., Kubler-Ross, Doka, Neimeyer, Worden, Rando) and discuss the concept of “stages vs. states” of grief.
3.Review the complex nature of grief as defined by the DSM IV-TR and distinct types of grief (i.e., normal, anticipatory, disenfranchised, complicated, protracted);
4.Recognize the impact and reactions of grief and loss in individuals, family systems, and communities, nations and the world with particular emphasis on those experiences unique to veterans and their significant others;
5.Be cognizant of both formal and informal grief assessment tools that can be utilized in a practice setting.
6.Possess a general knowledge of educational, supportive, and restorative interventions.
7.Become familiarwithwriting effective treatment planning goals and objectives based on case studies.
8.Be able to apply a therapeutic intervention (i.e. Meaning-Reconstruction Approach, Solution Oriented Therapy) to a case study

Location

This program will be held in the Banquet Room of the
American Legion Robert H. Hoke Post 272, located at:
505Mountain Road, Linglestown, PA 17112. Complete
directions to the facility will be mailed with registration
confirmation.

WORKSHOP AGENDA

  • 8:15 to 8:55: Check in
  • 9:00 t0 10:30: Review Basic Points of Loss and Grief Begin Didactic Presentation of Assessment/Identification of Loss/Grief
  • 10:30 to 10:45: BREAK
  • 10:45 to 12:15: Practice use of Formal Assessment Tools
  • 12:15 to 1:15: LUNCH on your own
  • 1:15 to 2:45: Tool Box Intervention: Presentation of Therapeutic Techniques and Issues of Therapeutic Interventions.
  • 2:45 to 3:00: BREAK
  • 3:00 to 4:30 Small Group Practice Applying Interventions


All program materials will be provided.

PRESENTERS

William “Bill” R. Klinger, PH.D

Dr. Klinger is a Mental Health
Educator and Therapeutic
Recreation Specialist with over 28
years of experience in psychiatric
settings as a therapist, educator,
and researcher. He received his B.A. in Psychology from
Westminster College and his M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Health
Education from Penn State University. Presently Dr.
Klinger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine. His
areas of interest include: Anxiety and Stress, Adaptive Tai
Chi, Behavioral Influences on Health, Grief and Loss,
Coping With Change, and Dementia Care. Dr. Klinger
has been an adjunct instructor for Penn State, Duquesne
and Temple Universities. He co-authored “Stretch Your
Mind and Body: Tai Chi as an Adaptive Activity” and has
presented keynote addresses, lectures, and workshops to
diverse professional groups at national, regional, state,
and community settings.

Lisa S. Zoll, LCSW

Lisa graduated from Temple
University with her MSW in 2003
and is a licensed clinical social
worker. She works in the Adult
Partial Hospitalization Program at
Penn State Hershey Medical
Center as a Clinical Psychiatric
Specialist in the program and as
an outpatient therapist. Lisa also
has a Masters of Parks and Recreation from Penn State
with a minor in Therapeutic Recreation. She previously
worked for 10 years as a Recreation Therapist at the
Medical Center on both the geriatric and adult inpatient
units. She has been an adjunct instructor for Temple
University Harrisburg and has published an article on
Postpartum Depression in the VA Newsletter, Fall 2003.
Lisa and Dr. Klinger have worked together as students,
co-workers, presenters, and instructors since 1990.

Registration

The cost of theworkshop is free. There is a $15 continuing education certificate processing fee payable to Temple University for those interested in receiving continuing education credits. Credit card payments are acceptable and may be made by phone, fax or mail. Preregistration is required as seating is limited. For registration questions, please contact Tia Gilbert-Beverly toll free at 1-866-769-1860 or e-mail: tia@temple.edu. For program questions, please contact Lynn Notestine at lynn.notestine@temple.edu. Please mail completed registration form to: Tia Gilbert-Beverly, c/o Temple University Harrisburg, 234 Strawberry Square, Harrisburg, PA 17101. You may also fax the completed registration formto: (717) 221-1634.