REGISTER NOW FOR OUR UPCOMING ACE LEARNING CENTER PROGRAM “CLINICAL PRACTICE WITH LGBTQ+ PATIENTS”. LEARN MORE!
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When working with a client’s memory, how do we locate the fleeting, joyful bits so often overshadowed by loss that no new insights can emerge? In this master class, the memory artist and psychotherapist, who developed an imaginal and photo-based therapy intervention called Dreamscaping, will start by introducing the research for arriving at the memory our client needs in order to move from isolation to re-integration in the world. This playful and cinematic approach begins with curating novelty from positive felt-sense memories —then co-creating an even more novel “prescriptive” memory through photo-based artwork from these lived experiences so that it becomes the place where healing can happen. Implications for using this method in-person or via telehealth, with adult populations (grief and non-death related loss) and in clinical settings (hospice) will be addressed.
*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.
Please register by Thursday, January 9 at 5pm.
Live Online Via Zoom
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. List three identifiers for suitability and three contraindications for the Dreamscaping intervention.
2. Identify the three critical types of narrative “material” which work best as retrieval cues for positive memory during interviewing.
3. Describe two or more ways the Dreamscaping’s research-based approach launches memory reconsolidation and updates a distressing long-term memory.
4. State at least one or more reasons why it is beneficial for the “prescriptive memory” to help open the bereaved individual to a therapeutic, corrective experience.
5. Apply one or more times how to evoke a client’s memory with observational humor, deep play, and magic realism— to optimize its positive charge.
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.
Nancy Gershman, LCSW is a psychotherapist with Bhava Therapy Group, and the developer of Dreamscaping, an imaginal and photo-based therapy supported by the way memories get encoded in the brain. Her publications include Prescriptive Memories in Grief and Loss: The Art of Dreamscaping (Routledge, 2019) with Barbara E. Thompson, and case studies in Robert A. Neimeyer’s Techniques of Grief Therapy (Routledge, 2012, 2016). Her Dreamscaping work with end-of-life patients and their families at Visiting Nurse Service of NY was featured on NY1’s “New Yorker of the Week” (2016). Her work with the eating-disordered culminated in the traveling exhibit, “The Brides of Ed” (2013). Since 2013, Nancy has hosted Death Café New York City.
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.
