Monday, April 8 and Tuesday, April 9, 2024
9:00 am – 4:45 pm Central Time / Houston Time - VIRTUAL ONLY
ADEC's Professional Development courses are offered in addition to the conference, as an opportunity for participants to deepen their knowledge in an environment tailored to their current level experience in the field. Spend two days with some of
the finest minds in thanatology, and enjoy a unique and inspiring learning experience. 12 CEU's available (additional fee).
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These 2024 Professional Development courses will be presented virtually only.
ADEC reserves the right to cancel any professional development course that does not attain minimum registration numbers. Registrants in a cancelled course will be informed and given the option to choose another session or receive a refund.
Intermediate Course: Grief
Counseling
Faculty: Louis Gamino, PhD, ABPP, FT
This course is designed for all professionals who have at least two years of experience working with the bereaved and/or the dying.
The Intermediate Course examines key concepts related to the human response to loss and the facilitation of healthy bereavement, with a bilateral focus on working with individuals who have lost an important loved one as well as individuals who are dying.
Death competence is emphasized as a prerequisite for effective clinical care of the bereaved and the dying.
Using the most current research and theory available in the field, you learn about models of grief experience, forces that contribute to risk and resilience in bereavement outcomes, and developmental, cultural, family, and other mediating factors in normal,
uncomplicated bereavement and in the dying process. The use of ritual as a coping response to facilitate mourning and development of creative therapeutic interventions receive special attention. Sound
approaches to enhancing self-care and preventing burnout are provided. Videotaped examples of actual
counseling sessions are included throughout the two-day course.
This highly interactive course gives you the opportunity to explore specific strategies and counseling tools to effectively support individuals, couples, families or groups coping with loss or facing an impending death. You will be given the opportunity
to critically reflect with peers about the impact of grief and loss on your own professional work. A variety of teaching techniques are woven throughout the course to help
you transfer the skills you learn in the course to your own work setting.
About Your Instructor:
Louis A. Gamino, PhD, ABPP, FT is Professor (Affiliated) of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and Baylor Scott & White Health in Temple, Texas. Dr. Gamino is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and a Fellow in Thanatology (FT) through the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC).
He is co-author (with R. Hal Ritter) of Ethical Practice in Grief Counseling (Springer Publishing Company, 2009) and co-author (with Ann T. Cooney) of When Your Baby Dies Through Miscarriage or Stillbirth (Augsburg Fortress, 2002). Dr. Gamino serves as Program Director for the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Health Service Psychology at BSWH and is Founder/Program Director of the Baylor Scott & White Biennial Bereavement Conferences begun in 1997 and endowed by the Volney A. Acheson Fund in 2000. ADEC honored Dr. Gamino with its Clinical Practice Award in 2008 for outstanding service as a practitioner. Dr. Gamino served as ADEC President from 2018-2019.
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This course is intended for psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, licensed professional counselors, nurses, physicians, pastoral counselors, or anyone with professional training seeking advanced skill development in bereavement
intervention with challenging cases.
As contemporary models of bereavement have become more nuanced and empirically informed, so too have the practices available to counselors and therapists contending with complicated and prolonged grief in their clients. This two-day
workshop offers in-depth training in several of these techniques, nesting them both within the therapy relationship and in the context of current theories focused on attachment, the dual processes of coping with loss and restoring life, and meaning
reconstruction. Throughout, we ground principles and practices in contemporary research that provides flexible frameworks for intervention. Making extensive use of actual clinical videos as well as how-to instruction in the use
of numerous therapeutic tools, we will discuss and practice several methods for helping clients integrate the reality of the loss into the ongoing story of their lives, while also reorganizing their continuing bond to their loved one.
About Your Instructors:
Darcy L. Harris, R.N., R.S.W., M.Ed. (Couns.), Ph.D., FT, is a Professor of Thanatology at
King’s University College in London, Canada, where she also maintains a private clinical practice specializing in issues related to change, loss, and transition. Dr. Harris developed the degree program in Thanatology at King’s University College in
London, Canada. In addition, she is a faculty member of the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, dedicated to training in grief therapy leading toward Certification in Meaning Reconstruction in Loss. She has served on the board of directors
of the Association for Death Education and Counseling and is a current member of the International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement.
She is the series co-editor for Routledge Publishing Company’s Death, Dying, and Bereavement
Series and she is an internationally-recognized speaker and author. Her publications include Counting our Losses: Reflecting on Change, Loss, and Transition in Everyday Life (Routledge), Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society: Bridging Research and Practice (Routledge), Principles and Practice of Grief Counseling (Springer), The Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief: Exploring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Routledge) and Non-Death Loss and Grief: Context and Clinical Implications (Routledge). Her upcoming book, Compassion-Based Approaches to Loss and Grief, was published in 2022.
Dr. Evgenia (Jane) Milman, PhD, teaches and conducts grief research at St Edward’s University.
She is also a faculty member at the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition and adjunct assistant professor with the National Crime Victim’s Treatment and Research Center at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Milman publishes
research examining how making meaning of difficult life experiences influences mental health following grief, trauma and other stressful events. Having authored dozens of research publications as well as book chapters on grief and grief therapy for
the Hospice Foundation of America, each edition of the acclaimed Routledge series Techniques of Grief Therapy, Elsevier and many others. She is currently collaborating with Drs. Edith Steffen and Robert Neimeyer to develop
the Handbook of Grief Therapies for Sage Publications. Dr. Milman also actively practices psychology in Texas, is a content expert and writer for the Canadian Virtual Hospice and is honored to serve on the advisory board for TAPS (Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors) as
well as the chair of the Distance and Online Education Committee for ADEC (Association for Death Education and Counseling).
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