The workshop will focus on how ambiguous loss differs from ordinary loss, coping strategies for people who have experienced such losses, guidelines for intervention, and implications for professionals involved in this type of work. The session is aimed at social workers, therapists, counsellors, clergy, doctors, nurses, long-term caregivers and mental health professionals, although the general public may also attend. The workshop is also sponsored by the Cambridge Interfaith Counselling Centre and the Kitchener Interfaith Counselling Centre. In addition to co-sponsoring the workshop, the Couple and Family Therapy Centre also provides services that help people deal with ambiguous loss, Turner said. The Centre has a dual mission of providing therapy to families, couples and individuals and training graduate students.
Faculty members supervise sessions that are conducted by graduate interns.
They specialize in counselling for life transitions such as death and separation or divorce, parenting challenges, intimacy problems, stress and anxiety. Cost of therapy services is negotiable and may be provided on an affordable fee schedule.