REGISTER NOW FOR OUR UPCOMING ACE LEARNING CENTER PROGRAM “DRAWING FROM WITHIN”. LEARN MORE!
REGISTER NOW FOR OUR UPCOMING ACE LEARNING CENTER PROGRAM “DRAWING FROM WITHIN”. LEARN MORE!
ACE Foundation Programs
Balancing the risk factors of grief counseling with self-care practice maintains our equilibrium and helps clients move towards hope and healing. As a presence of accompaniment, clinicians can often hold complex, mixed, intense emotions as we give witness to pain (ours & theirs). Using your results from the Personal Death Awareness (PDA) Inventory Exercise, this interactive workshop will demonstrate how loss, trauma, and emotions about death and grief, influence your approach to grief counseling. We will also examine a few case studies that apply the following theories and grief treatment modalities: Attachment Theory, Dual Process Model, The Tasks of Mourning, Continued Bonds, Meaning-Centered Grief Therapy, and Post-Traumatic Growth. By the end of this workshop, participants will have a better understanding of how individuals react to loss and express their grief.
*NYSSCSW Discount applies to NYSSCSW current members only.
**Student Discount only applies to full time students currently enrolled in social work and MHP master level programs.
This is an ACE Foundation Program. If this is your first time taking an ACE Foundation program not co-sponsored by an NYSSCSW, you will be prompted to make your complimentary account on the ACE Foundation Learning Center platform, where you will be able to access all program information, course materials and information for future ACE Foundation programs from your member dashboard. You will be asked to set a password for your new ACE Foundation Learning Center account.
Please register for either in-person or online by Thursday, May 30 at 5pm.
Live In Person and Live Online via Zoom
In-Person Venue details:
Mental Health Association (MHA)
29 Sterling Avenue
White Plains, NY 10606
The Advanced Clinical Education (ACE) Foundation of the NYS Society for Clinical Social Work, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0028; licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0045; licensed psychoanalysts #P-0017; licensed psychologists #PSY-0121; and licensed social workers #SW-0056.
Out-of-state providers are welcome to request a certificate upon completion of the presentation evaluation but must check with their own state licensing boards to inquire about whether or not the certificate is recognized as transferrable for CEs in their state’s jurisdiction.
By the end of this continuing education activity, participants will be able to:
1. Identify how personal death experience(s) influence or impact your grief counseling approach;
2. Recognize the various types of grief, factors that influence grief, and grief patterns;
3. Understand the impact of attachment styles on grief patterns;
4. Apply evidence-based research to develop grief treatment plans using case studies;
5. Navigate meaning-making opportunities for grievers; and
6. Identify risk factors of grief counseling and apply self-care techniques to maintain a healthy balance (clinician and client).
Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed psychoanalysts, nurse practitioners and family and marriage/couple therapists and mental health counselors.
This seminar is appropriate for clinicians with all levels of experience.
Inspired by a 9/11/2001 Ground Zero experience, Gae Savino, MPA, LCSW, CT transitioned after 35+ years as a professional fundraiser to become a licensed clinical social worker and death, dying, and grief counselor. As Founder of Mindful Heart Counseling Services in Ossining, NY, Gae Savino counsels grieving adolescents and adults and facilitates a variety of grief support groups for the past 15 years. Previously, she worked as a social worker for the children and adult inpatient psychiatric units and partial hospital programs at Four Winds Hospital, Katonah. She is a frequent presenter on issues of dying, death, and bereavement. She is Certified in Thanatology (CT) by the Association for Death Education, and Counseling; serves as a grief counselor at suicide and trauma sites; earned her Master’s Degree in Social Work from Fordham University; and has extensive post-graduate training in grief counseling from Columbia University’s Center for Prolonged Grief, College of New Rochelle’s Advanced Thanatology Certificate Program, Bereavement Center of Westchester’s Tree-House Program, Hospice of Westchester, Calvery Hospital, and Westchester Medical Center’s Caregivers Center. During her free time, Gae also likes to coordinate pilgrimages for grievers to Rome, Italy & Assisi and on the Camino de Santiago in Spain.
Contact Hours will be awarded once the entire course is completed, as evidenced by signing in and out and completing a course evaluation. Certificates will be emailed approximately ten business days after the completion of the course.
ACE welcomes participants with diverse abilities. Please contact Kristin or Debbie at info.acefoundation@gmail.com, at time of registration, to request accessibility accommodations. Accommodation requests are considered in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities ACT (ADA), Section 505 of the Rehabilitation ACT.
Cancellations made at least five days before the event will be fully refunded. For cancellation please call 1-800-288-4279, or email us at info.acefoundation@gmail.com.
Should Inclement weather occur, we will be notifying all registrants via the email by which the registrant signed up. Please be sure to check your email before you leave for the course.
