Instructor: Froma Walsh, PhD, is Professor Emerita, in the Crown School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and the Dept. of Psychiatry, at the University of Chicago, and she is […]
Instructor: Froma Walsh, PhD, is Professor Emerita, in the Crown School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and the Dept. of Psychiatry, at the University of Chicago, and she is Co-Founder/Co-Director, the Chicago Center for Family Health. Dr. Walsh is the leading international expert on family resilience, with over three decades experience with complex and traumatic loss.
The tragic death of a child, parent, sibling, or loved one can shatter lives and reverberate through couple and family bonds, with immediate and long-term impact. Yet, resilience research finds that the grieving process and the struggle to cope and adapt also can yield personal and relational transformation and growth. In this workshop, Dr. Walsh highlights practice principles in her research-informed, resilience-oriented systematic approach with individuals, couples, and families who have suffered devastating losses in complex and traumatic situations, from sudden, untimely, and disenfranchised losses to Covid-related deaths, gun violence, drug overdose, suicide, or the wider impact of war and climate-related disasters. We expand the common focus of individual, symptom-focused treatment to understand and address the impact in couples, family systems, and social contexts. We attend to the suffering and facilitate both personal and relational healing, also tapping community, cultural, and spiritual resources. We’ll briefly consider common therapeutic challenges, compassion fatigue, and ways to find meaning, purpose, and connection to go forward and thrive.
This session will take place virtually and pre-registration is required. If you’d like to register for a class, please fill out our form and submit payment below. Each course is worth two contact hours.
The cost for each CEU course is $50, and $25 for DGMH partnering organizations of Commonpoint. These organizations include:
HANAC Harmony JVL ISC
Peter Cardella Senior Center
Rego Park Senior Center
Self-Help Benjamin Rosenthal ISC
Sunnyside Community Services
Theodora Jackson NSC
Self-Help Clearview NSC
Elmhurst Jackson Heights NSCA
Maspeth Senior Center
Pomonok Senior Center
JASA Leap
SNAP
Gural JCC
If you have any questions please contact Jordana at jdavidson@commonpoint.org
All NYS licensed psychologists, social workers or mental health practitioners are required to complete continuing education and must complete 3 hours of acceptable course work in appropriate professional boundaries, in each 3-year registration period starting April 1, 2023. The Board of Regents approved regulations on October 4, 2022, that requires psychologists, social workers and mental health practitioners licensed and registered under Articles 153, 154 or 163 of the Education Law, to complete 3 hours of acceptable continuing education on issues related to maintaining appropriate professional boundaries between licensees and patients. The course work must be taken from a provider approved by the Department and counts toward the 36 hours of continuing education required in each 36-month registration period. The regulations apply to each psychologist, licensed master social worker, licensed clinical social worker, mental health counselor, marriage and family therapist, creative arts therapist and psychoanalyst licensed and registered for registration periods starting on or after April 1, 2023. Licensees with a registration period commencing prior to April 1, 2023, do not have to complete coursework in appropriate boundaries until their next registration period. A licensee does not need to submit continuing education certificates to the State Board, unless audited by the Board or applying for a delayed registration.
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