HV24-06 - Helping Couples Navigate Illness, Kaethe Weingarten

Helping Couples Navigate Ilness:

Grief, loss and an uncertain future

An online webinar with Kaethe Weingarten (USA)

March 21th 6PM

The impact of acute or chronic illness on couples varies depending on many factors, including their family life cycle stage and the stage of their relationship itself. Many couples experience "chronic sorrow" about ways that illness makes them less of who they have been or had hoped to be. I will present ideas that may help couples access more compassion for each other, an important resource when illness dominates their life. Couples struggling with illness need hope. How they think about hope matters. I will present some ideas about how therapists can help couples access “reasonable” hope. These are the ideas that have guided me in my personal and professional life.

After a theoretical presentation about these ideas, prof Weingarten/ Kaethe will do a live session with a couple. Afterwards you'll have the chance to question her about the session, the choices and interventions she made.

Kaethe Weingarten, Ph.D., directs the Witness to Witness (W2W) Program for Migrant Clinicians Network. She was an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston and then Cambridge Health Alliance (1981-2017) and taught at the Family Institute of Cambridge (1982-2009), where she founded and directed the Program in Families, Trauma and Resilience. Internationally, she has taught in Africa, Australia, Canada, Europe, and New Zealand, where she was a Fulbright Specialist. Dr. Weingarten has given over 400 presentations and been a keynote speaker at numerous conferences. She serves on the editorial boards of five journals. In 2002 she was awarded the highest honor of the American Family Therapy Academy, the award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Theory and Practice. She has written about her work in six books (which she has authored or edited) and over 150 articles, chapters, and essays.

Date

March 21th 2024

6PM - 9PM (Central European Time)

Online

We will send all participants a zoom link before the webinar starts.

Price

€60 for the webinar with online live session.

It is not permitted to make a video recording.

Readings, by Kaethe Weingarten

Weingarten, K. (2010). Reasonable hope: Construct, clinical applications, and supports. Family process, 49(1), 5-25.
Weingarten, K. (2013). The “cruel radiance of what is”: Helping couples live with chronic illness. Family Process, 52(1), 83-101.
Weingarten, K. (2022). Waiting and witnessing: Using reasonable hope to cope with uncertainty. Journal of medical imaging and radiation sciences, 53(2), S9-S15.
Weingarten, K. (2023). Called to repair injustice: Connecting everyday practices to social phenomena, creating momentum for solidarity and change. Family Process, 62(1), 6-34.

More information or questions, contact leen.carens@verbindinginverlies.be

In case of cancellation of a registration, the following cancellation conditions apply:

- Cancellation is always done in writing by e-mail (an.hooghe@verbindinginverlies.be)

-In case of cancellation up to 1 month before the training day, half of the registration fee will be refunded

-In case of cancellation within the month of the training day, your registration fee will not be refunded.

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