The Montgomery Hospice Bereavement Care Team
2010 Conference

Helping Persons with Complicated and Traumatic Loss

with Therese Rando, Ph.D.
Monday, September 20, 2010
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The Universities at Shady Grove Conference Center
9630 Gudelsky Drive Rockville, MD 20850 (directions)

Registration
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Call: 301-921-4400
Fax: 301-921-4433

Conference Fee:
$100 Non-refundable Registration Fee
    plus $10 CEU fee, if applicable
Breakfast and Lunch are included.
Fee at the door: $125, plus $10 CEU fee, if applicable

Thank you to our Benefactors and Sponsors

Presenter:
Therese Rando, Ph.D., BCETS, BCBT

Dr. Rando is a world renowned author, researcher and educator in the field of death, dying, grief and loss. She has published over 70 written works pertaining to the clinical aspects of thanatology. Her books include Treatment of Complicated Mourning, How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies, and Grief, Dying, and Death: Clinical Interventions for Caregivers.

Dr. Rando is a national media expert in death, loss and trauma for the American Psychological Association. She has appeared on numerous television programs including "Dateline," "Good Morning, America," "The Oprah Winfrey Show," and provides commentary for newspapers and magazines across the country.

She holds a doctoral degree in Psychology from the University of Rhode Island and advanced training in psychotherapy and in medical consultation-liaison psychiatry from Case Western Reserve Medical School and University Hospitals of Cleveland.

Dr. Rando's current research foci include treatment of complicated mourning, loss of a child, the interface between posttraumatic stress and grief, and anticipatory mourning.

Continuing Education Units:

• Board of Social Work Examiners of the State of Maryland: 6 CEUs, Category I
• Maryland State Board of Morticians: 6 CEUs
• Maryland Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists: 6 CEUs, Category A
• State of Maryland Board of Examiners of Psychologists: 6 CEUs
• Association of Professional Chaplains will accept the certificate of attendance for chaplains reporting continuing education (no fee for certificate of attendance).

Montgomery Hospice Education Policy: CEUs will not be given out until after 4:00 p.m.

Helping Persons with Complicated and Traumatic Loss
This practically-oriented workshop investigates how the death of a loved one can pose the mourner with challenging demands stemming from a mixture of loss and trauma. Most deaths involve some combination of the two. Depending upon the amount of trauma experienced, the ensuing combination of grief and traumatic stress can severely disable coping, impair functioning, and compromise adaptation. Drawing on cutting-edge information from the fields of clinical psychology, thanatology, and traumatology, Dr. Rando provides strategies and specific guidelines for effective clinical intervention.

Objectives for this conference:
Participants will be able to:

• Identify 12 elements that can make any death traumatic
• Discuss how anticipatory mourning inherently involves traumatic stress
• List at least 10 challenges created by a death with traumatic aspects
• Describe the 3 levels of association of acute grief and traumatic stress and the 2 configurations of symptomatology they bring
• Discuss the general treatment implications of intervention in traumatic bereavement
• Discuss how to intervene in traumatic stress during a life-threatening or terminal illness

Target Audience: Grief Counselors, Psychologists, Funeral Directors, Nurses, Chaplains, Social Workers, Doctors, Clergy, Stephen Ministers, Pastoral Care Volunteers, grieving persons, persons who want to enhance their skills to support grieving persons.

Flow of the Conference
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Trauma and Traumatic Stress Across the Bereavement Spectrum
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 - 12:15 p.m. How Trauma and Loss Can Complicate Mourning
12:15 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch provided
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Intervention After Sudden Death
2:30 - 2:45 p.m. Break
2:45 - 3:45 p.m. Intervention During Life-Threatening or Terminal Illness
3:45 - 4:15 p.m. Questions and Discussion
4:15 - 4:30 p.m. Evaluations

Directions to Conference Center:

• From I-270 take Exit 8 - Shady Grove Road West.
  
  • If you were going North on I-270, turn left onto Shady Grove.
  • If you were going South on I-270, turn right onto Shady Grove Road.
• Go 1.5 miles, cross the intersection of Route 28 (Darnestown Rd.); Turn right onto Gudelsky Way.
• Turn left onto Gudelsky Drive.
  Follow road around to the back of the campus.
• Enter Building 1 (9640 Gudelsky Way) and follow signs to conference center which is in Building 2 (9630 Gudelsky Way). The buildings are connected by a covered walkway.