Pre-Death Grief and Loss Series: Supporting Families in the Face of An Impending Loss

Course Overview

In the course of counselling, you may come across clients who foresee their impending loss of someone significant in their lives through different terminal illnesses and other life-threatening circumstances (e.g. comatose state resulted from a severe accident or a fast-progressing critical medical condition). This training will introduce meaning-oriented perspectives of anticipatory grief and separation anxiety as experienced by the family members and the surrounding significant others of those who are critically ill and given poor prognosis. It will also equip you with meaning-oriented intervention tools to support the affected family members and friends in the face of their looming separation from their dying loved one. 


Training Type

This course is conducted E-Learning via ZOOM platform.



Who Should Attend

All counsellors, healthcare workers, social workers, psychologists, art / music / expressive arts therapists, school personnel, pastoral staff, and people involved in the helping profession.


Course Duration

2 days (9am - 5pm)


Total Training Duration (Hour)

14 hours


Course Outline
  • Essential features of separation anxiety and anticipatory grief
  • Use of Analogical Listening to explore the pre-loss turmoil
  • Pre-loss risk assessment for possible complications in post-loss adjustments
  • Use of a conversation guide to examine communication concerns over bad news and possible secrets and taboos
  • Application of Composition Work to examine the landscape of self and family, and to explore possible post-loss reconstruction


 


Certification Obtained and Conferred by

Modular Certificate of Completion awarded by the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition (PI), Portland, OR, United States, and earn Credits for 2 Orientation Modules and 3 Techniques Modules toward Certification in Grief Therapy as Meaning Reconstruction or Certification in Family-Focused Grief Therapy. 

 


Course Objectives
  • To examine the threat of separation and its implications from a tripartite meaning reconstruction framework
  • To address family’s distress resulting from caregiving burdens and communication issues
  • To implement meaning-oriented techniques to facilitate family’s preparation and coping with the impending loss and separation

Medium of Instruction & Trainer

Dr Carolyn Ng, PsyD, FT, MMSAC, RegCLR maintains a private practice, Anchorage for Loss and Transition (for more information, please visit: www.anchorage-for-loss.org). She also serves as Associate Director and Faculty with the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition in Portland, OR, United States. Previously, she was a Principal Counsellor with the Children’s Cancer Foundation in Singapore, specialising in cancer-related palliative care and bereavement counselling support. She is a registered counsellor, master clinical member and approved clinical supervisor with the Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC). She is also a Fellow in Thanatology (FT) registered with the Association of Death Education and Counselling (ADEC), USA; as well as a consultant to a cancer support and bereavement ministry in Sydney, NSW, Australia. She is certified in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Narrative Therapy as well.

 

Carolyn first graduated with Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales, Australia, majoring in psychology, followed by Master of Social Science (Counselling) from the Edith Cowan University, Australia and a Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry (Conflict Management) from the Trinity Theological Seminary, USA. She subsequently completed her doctoral training in psychology with the California Southern University, USA. She is also trained in the Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, USA, community crisis response by the National Organisation for Victim Assistance (NOVA), USA, as well as Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) by LivingWorks, Canada. She is a trained end-of-life doula and a certified  Advanced Care Planning facilitator as well. 

 

Her wide counselling experiences cover youth delinquency issues, marital issues, family violence   issues, mental health issues, incarceration issues, grief and loss issues, and crisis interventions. She has varied supervisory experiences with such helping professionals as counsellors, social workers and therapists in diverse settings as well. She also conducts training workshops and presents on various topics in English, Mandarin and Cantonese, as invited by different organizations both in Singapore and other countries like Malaysia, Taiwan, Bhutan, Australia and United States over the years.

 


Funding Information

NCSS member and MSF-funded Social Service Agencies are able to apply for PCG/VCF Funding

PCG/VCF Funding is pre-approved at 45% per pax for Singaporeans/PR (Ref No. PAS00002937, End date of approval: 8 Mar 2024)


Price
Course Fee Payable
Original Fee Before GST With GST (9%)
Course Fee $775.00 $844.75

Early Bird Rate (before GST): S$700 (Register and pay by 3rd July 2024)

Please note that prices are subject to change.
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