Date and Time: Friday, August 2, 2019 - 9:00 am to 4:45 pm
Instructors: John S. Rolland, MD, MPH, and Froma Walsh, PhD
Location: Cambridge, MA
Credits: 6 CEs
Instructors: John S. Rolland, MD, MPH, and Froma Walsh, PhD
Location: Cambridge, MA
Credits: 6 CEs
Description
Rolland’s Family Systems Illness model provides a guiding framework for therapists to help couples and families navigate the changing landscape in the experience of illness over time. In the morning, he will present his resilience-oriented practice approach. This model integrates the psychosocial demands of various types and phases of illness with family and individual life cycle challenges, multigenerational legacies, and beliefs/meaning-making. Guidelines are offered to help view the illness experience as a “shared challenge,” and seize opportunities for relational healing and growth. Learn concrete skills to address common challenges such as: communication issues, maintaining relationships with caregiving demands and threatened loss, adherence issues, promote resilient "illness narratives,” re-visioning life dreams and goals when necessary, and counteract patient/caregiver relational imbalances that can emerge over time. Discussion includes cost-effective treatments: timely preventive family consultations, psychosocial checkups, brief and intensive interventions, and resilience-based multi-family groups.
Facing the end of life and the loss of a loved one are the most profound human challenges. Yet alongside suffering and grief is the potential for remarkable resilience. The way we approach death and loss with our clients can yield both personal and relational transformation and positive growth when we work skillfully in this complex terrain. In the afternoon, Dr. Walsh will apply her resilience-oriented systemic framework to guide practice with painful end-of-life challenges and complicated bereavement. We’ll examine traumatic loss situations, relational dynamics, and spiritual issues that heighten distress and risk for long-term reverberations. Resilience-based practice principles and case illustrations will address therapeutic challenges and offer ways to help struggling clients make the most of precious time; seize possibilities to heal relational wounds; forge meaning; and reorient hope to live and love fully at life’s end and beyond loss.
Facing the end of life and the loss of a loved one are the most profound human challenges. Yet alongside suffering and grief is the potential for remarkable resilience. The way we approach death and loss with our clients can yield both personal and relational transformation and positive growth when we work skillfully in this complex terrain. In the afternoon, Dr. Walsh will apply her resilience-oriented systemic framework to guide practice with painful end-of-life challenges and complicated bereavement. We’ll examine traumatic loss situations, relational dynamics, and spiritual issues that heighten distress and risk for long-term reverberations. Resilience-based practice principles and case illustrations will address therapeutic challenges and offer ways to help struggling clients make the most of precious time; seize possibilities to heal relational wounds; forge meaning; and reorient hope to live and love fully at life’s end and beyond loss.
Outline for the Workshop
9 am to 10:30 am
Overview of Family Systems Illness Model
Illness & disability in family systems context
Psychosocial types and demands of illness & disability
Time phases of illness (with developmental tasks)
Crisis, chronic and terminal phase issues
Anticipatory loss in chronic and life-threatening disorders
Multigenerational patterns, legacies, and themes related to illness and loss
10:45 am to 12:30 pm
Family Systems Illness Model (Cont.)
Interface of illness, individual, couple, and family life cycles
Family health and illness beliefs (including beliefs re: normative illness experience, mastery, control,
cause-control-outcome of disorder, ethno-cultural and spiritual)
Guidelines for timely, cost-effective family-based interventions
Applications in integrated care contexts
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Dr. Walsh will apply her resilience-oriented systemic framework to guide practice with painful end-of-life challenges and complicated bereavement. We’ll examine traumatic loss situations, relational dynamics, and spiritual issues that heighten distress and risk for long-term reverberations.
3 to 4:30 pm
Resilience-based practice principles and case illustrations will address therapeutic challenges and offer ways to help struggling clients make the most of precious time; seize possibilities to heal relational wounds; forge meaning; and reorient hope to live and love fully at life’s end and beyond loss.
4:30 pm to 4:45 pm
Completion of workshop evaluations
Overview of Family Systems Illness Model
Illness & disability in family systems context
Psychosocial types and demands of illness & disability
Time phases of illness (with developmental tasks)
Crisis, chronic and terminal phase issues
Anticipatory loss in chronic and life-threatening disorders
Multigenerational patterns, legacies, and themes related to illness and loss
10:45 am to 12:30 pm
Family Systems Illness Model (Cont.)
Interface of illness, individual, couple, and family life cycles
Family health and illness beliefs (including beliefs re: normative illness experience, mastery, control,
cause-control-outcome of disorder, ethno-cultural and spiritual)
Guidelines for timely, cost-effective family-based interventions
Applications in integrated care contexts
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Dr. Walsh will apply her resilience-oriented systemic framework to guide practice with painful end-of-life challenges and complicated bereavement. We’ll examine traumatic loss situations, relational dynamics, and spiritual issues that heighten distress and risk for long-term reverberations.
3 to 4:30 pm
Resilience-based practice principles and case illustrations will address therapeutic challenges and offer ways to help struggling clients make the most of precious time; seize possibilities to heal relational wounds; forge meaning; and reorient hope to live and love fully at life’s end and beyond loss.
4:30 pm to 4:45 pm
Completion of workshop evaluations
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
1. Describe a comprehensive resilience-based family systems model for assessment and clinical intervention with individuals, couples, and families facing chronic and disabling illness and disability
2. Identify the significance of life cycles, multigenerational themes, and belief systems in illness, disability, and loss
3. Describe brief interventions and other timely and cost-effective applications of the Family Systems Illness Model
4. Apply advances in bereavement and resilience research in practice with individuals, couples and families facing death and loss.
5. Utilize a useful resilience-based systemic framework and practice principles to address end-of-life and bereavement challenges.
6. Explain practice guidelines to address situations of complicated loss and complex relational dynamics.
7. Identify practice skills to help people facing loss to make the most of precious time, strengthen bonds, repair old wounds, and support survivors beyond loss.
1. Describe a comprehensive resilience-based family systems model for assessment and clinical intervention with individuals, couples, and families facing chronic and disabling illness and disability
2. Identify the significance of life cycles, multigenerational themes, and belief systems in illness, disability, and loss
3. Describe brief interventions and other timely and cost-effective applications of the Family Systems Illness Model
4. Apply advances in bereavement and resilience research in practice with individuals, couples and families facing death and loss.
5. Utilize a useful resilience-based systemic framework and practice principles to address end-of-life and bereavement challenges.
6. Explain practice guidelines to address situations of complicated loss and complex relational dynamics.
7. Identify practice skills to help people facing loss to make the most of precious time, strengthen bonds, repair old wounds, and support survivors beyond loss.
Instructors
John S. Rolland, M.D., MPH is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is the Co-Founder and Executive Co-Director of the University-affiliated Chicago Center for Family Health, where he directs its internationally distinguished Families, Illness, and Collaborative Healthcare Program. Widely recognized for his integrated conceptual model and clinical work on couple and family psychosocial challenges with serious health conditions, his newly released book by Guilford Press is Helping Couples and Families Navigate Illness and Disability: An Integrated Approach. Other professional books include Families, Illness, and Disability: An Integrative Treatment Model; and (co-author) Individuals, Families and the New Era of Genetics: Biopsychosocial Perspectives. A recipient of a number of awards, Dr. Rolland is a speaker and international consultant on family-oriented approaches to major health conditions.
Froma Walsh, PhD is Co-Founder & Co-Director, Chicago Center for Family Health and the Mose & Sylvia Firestone Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago. A leader in the field of family therapy, she is the foremost international expert on family resilience, with extensive experience with serious illness and complicated loss and with multi-stress conditions of vulnerable families. Her research-informed family resilience framework is applied worldwide in research and community-based intervention and prevention. Her collaborative, systemic approach integrates the spiritual dimension and multi-faith perspectives in practice. Dr. Walsh is recipient of many awards in the health and mental health fields. With 120+ scholarly publications, her articles and books have been translated in many languages, notably: Strengthening Family Resilience (3rd ed., 2016), Normal family processes (4th ed., 2012), Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy (2nd. ed., 2009); Living beyond Loss (2nd ed., 2004.). She is a valued clinical consultant internationally.
Target Audience
This learning event is designed for helping professionals including, but not limited to, social workers, psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage & family therapists, and nurses. We design the learning methodology to further develop beginning, intermediate, and advanced helping professionals by supporting improvement of skills for direct practice, supervision, and management positions. People who attend from professions other than those we are able to provide CEs for may request a Certificate of Attendance.
Location
CHA Cambridge Hospital, Macht Auditorium
1493 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
1493 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Cost
Individual Registration: $140, $130 early registration, received by 7/4/19.
Group Registration: $130 per person for groups of two or more, $125 per person early registration for groups of two or more, received by 7/4/19. Groups must register and pay together to receive the discount.
Members of Clinicians United, Black Therapists Rock, NEAFAST and people working in Caring Together programs may access a discounted rate of $120. Please contact us for discount codes. No application is required.
PLEASE NOTE: No food or drink is allowed in the Macht Auditorium
Group Registration: $130 per person for groups of two or more, $125 per person early registration for groups of two or more, received by 7/4/19. Groups must register and pay together to receive the discount.
Members of Clinicians United, Black Therapists Rock, NEAFAST and people working in Caring Together programs may access a discounted rate of $120. Please contact us for discount codes. No application is required.
PLEASE NOTE: No food or drink is allowed in the Macht Auditorium
Registration Information
You may register and pay online using a credit card, your Paypal account or a check. To pay by check, you may register online, indicate that you will pay by check and follow instructions to mail payment.
OR You may register by snail mail by downloading the registration form and sending it with your check.
Group registrants must register together online and/or mail multiple checks in the same envelope to get the discount.
Your space is not secured for an event until we receive payment.
OR You may register by snail mail by downloading the registration form and sending it with your check.
Group registrants must register together online and/or mail multiple checks in the same envelope to get the discount.
Your space is not secured for an event until we receive payment.
Workshop CEs
Participants MUST attend 100% of the program to earn the 6 contact hours approved. Certificates will be given at the end of the event after you are fully paid and have completed the evaluation form. Details for approved professions: 6 CEs have been approved for licensed Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Psychology and Nursing professionals by Commonwealth Educational Seminars. Licensed Mental Health Counselors can earn 6 contact hours as Therapy Training Boston has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6707. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Therapy Training Boston is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. For more detailed information about CEs, read this.
Cancellations and Refunds
Workshops and courses may be cancelled by Therapy Training Boston if minimum enrollment requirements are not met. In this case, full fees will be refunded or applied to future programs. Otherwise, no refunds are provided for registrants.
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