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Working with clients in pain is never easy. The last several years have brought more pain and suffering to your practices than ever before, but let’s face it - you’re burned out, overwhelmed, and feel under-supported. This session with acclaimed grief expert Megan Devine will give you the tools you need to manage the impacts of emotional overwhelm, set boundaries and handle grief on the job as well as because of it.
Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships
All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 1.75 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
Psychotherapist Megan Devine is a celebrated speaker, best-selling author, and a pioneer in the movement for a kinder, more human approach to grief – from life-altering losses to the everyday grief that we don’t call grief. With an audience in the millions, Megan’s ability to make complex emotional issues acceptable, relatable, and a lot less awkward has made her a sought-after leader. Known for her insight and practical guidance, she serves as a consultant to the entertainment and healthcare industries, speaks and teaches across disciplines, and maintains a select private practice.
Megan’s books, It’s OK that You’re Not OK, and How to Carry What Can’t Be Fixed, are the best-selling books on grief in over a decade, with nearly a million copies sold. Her work has been featured in the Atlantic, APM’s Marketplace, SELF, New York Times, Washington Post, CNBC, NPR, Harvard Business Review, Stanford University, GQ Magazine, Oprah Daily, and many others. Find her at megandevine.co and refugeingrief.com.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Megan Devine is the founder and CEO of Refuge in Grief as well as The After Institute. Megan Devine maintains a private practice and is the on-line advisor/author of Empowering Parents. She is the creator and host of It’s Ok that You’re Not OK with Megan Devine. She receives royalties as a published author. Megan Devine receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Megan Devine has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Repeated exposure to loss
Creating and maintaining boundaries
Systemic failure and the limits of infrastructure
Friction with the outside world
The ethics of self-disclosure
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