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From Superheroes to Steel Magnolias: What Pop Culture Gets Right and Wrong about Grief

3 CE Credits

This session aims to identify how grief is presented in the media and how that impacts therapists’ and clients’ approach to grief and grief therapy. Representation, identity, and intersectionality will be discussed. Strategies for addressing grief facts and myths through film, comic books, novels, and memoir as well as the use of sandtray (and the practice of virtual sandtray) for storytelling will be explored.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Attendees will identify messages about grief in media and how they impact clients.

Attendees will review grief theories and research and examine how those support or conflict with how grief is presented in the media.

Attendees will learn how to integrate movies, comic books, novels, and memoir into therapy to identify myths and build clients’ knowledge about responses to grief.

Attendees will learn how to use virtual sandtray to tell stories and process emotions.

APPROVAL INFORMATION
This webinar is approved by the Oklahoma State Board of Licensed Social Workers provider #20220014 and will serve as Category 1 credits for all social workers in Oklahoma.

This webinar is pending approval by the Oklahoma State Board of Behavioral Health for technology assisted CE credit.

The Tristesse Grief Center has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7131. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Tristesse Grief Center is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. More approval information can be found at thegriefcenter.org

Oct 28, 2022 01:00 PM in Central Time (US and Canada)