Noon

In this chapter chat, we will explore the ways that clinicians and educators can help their clients process grief by finding age-appropriate ways to acknowledge the loss and to make meaning from it.

Noon-3 p.m.

This course's objectives are to:

1. acknowledge racial colorblindness as a racial microaggression that upholds white supremacy;
2. evaluate the ethical implications of being racially colorblind in practice;
3. identify 3 racial disparities that exist and the role in recognizing race in order to advocate and empower clients to fight against inequities; and
4. define cultural humility and explore strategies to increase interpersonal and intrapersonal cultural humility to improve rapport building and alleviate further trauma.

12:30-5 p.m.

Effective postvention after any sudden death, to include suicide, can reduce risk of additional suicides and promote community-wide healing.

8:45 a.m.-Noon

This workshop will introduce a collection of ego state therapy interventions, from the Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS), for stabilizing these clients.

8:45 a.m.-Noon

In this workshop participants will experience the way mini-ideas and images, emerging within the inner mental flow of provider and client, offer rich material for creative interventions that can elicit empathic resonance, reframe negative narratives, evoke adaptive realizations, shift focus from problems to solutions and result in effective and enduring psychosocial outcomes.