Friday Course Overview: Applying the DSES in Clinical and other Professional Settings
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Research shows that connection to the transcendent can enhance well-being, provide meaning or a sense of purpose, and deepen awareness of connection to self, others, nature, and the Holy. To investigate this phenomena, Dr. Lynn Underwood created the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES). The DSES has been used extensively in research and direct services such as nursing, counseling, clinical, and other psychological services, coaching, hospice, chaplaincy, and ministry.
Dr. Underwood will explain how the sixteen questions that form the DSES can be used to improve quality of life, enhance communication, and deepen connections. She will discuss a variety of uses of the instrument and provide opportunity for participants to personally explore selected questions from the DSES, using ordinary examples from your own life, in order to better understand how to use them in professional settings with others. There will also be time for discussion and questions.
After the program, interested participants may continue discussion together and with Dr. Underwood over lunch at your own expense.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Describe how the DSES set of questions can reach breadth and depths of experience for many different kinds of people and can be useful in the caring professions, in organizations, and in ministry;
- Discuss research-supported applicability of use of the DSES, including its limitations in psychological, health care, and pastoral settings; and
- Identify some ways to use the questions in an open-ended format.
Participants may register for this session and/or for the Thursday night session that focuses on using the DSES in research settings.
Lynn Underwood, PhD has published widely in topics such as quality of life, cancer, stress, compassionate love, the role of the arts in neuroethics, and the multi- cultural understanding of ordinary spiritual experience. She created the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale. Her PhD in epidemiology followed medical school and she is an elected fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. Underwood has directed foundation programs and developed projects with the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health. Her consulting practice helps social services agencies, hospice, addiction services and others with strategy and program evaluation. Internationally, she lectures, facilitates workshops, and does research with clients such as Harvard University and the Cleveland Clinic.
Content Questions: contact Martha Robbins of Pneuma Institute, ThD, Event Administrator, at 412-924-1423 or mrobbins@pts.edu
Schedule: Friday, October 30, 2015
7:45 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m. Exploring Spiritual Connections Part 1
10:15 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Exploring Spiritual Connections Part 2
12:30 p.m. Adjournment
Registration and Fees
How to Register: scroll down to where it says “Tickets” or contact Liz Crosgrove at 412-661-1239 x 10 or ecrosgrove@ppi-online.org.
If you are a student registering online, enter the discount code student-fri and bring your student ID to the event. No students will be admitted without student IDs.
Exploring Spiritual Connections: Fri., October 30, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 3.5 CEs
- $50 Standard registration
- $35 Student registration with valid ID (discount code: student-fri)
- $10 CE credits for psychologists, marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, social workers, RNs, CRNPs
- No fee for CEUs for clergy and coaches
Refund Policy: Full refunds will be provided before October 8, 2015. A $10 administrative charge will be deducted from refunds requested after October 8. No refunds will be given after October 15 or for “no-shows.” If the program is cancelled for any reason, the liability of the program sponsors shall be limited to a full refund of registration fees.
We accommodate persons with disabilities. Please call 412-924-1345 if you may require special assistance.
Housing and Directions
This program will be held at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (616 N. Highland Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15206). On-campus housing is available via reservation by calling 412-924-1397 or e-mailing reception@pts.edu. Directions to the Seminary can be found at www.pts.edu/directions.
3.5 This educational program will provide a maximum of 5.5 contact hours, depending upon the number of sessions attended. CE credits can be earned with attendance of the entire program on Thursday evening and/or Friday morning and with completion of the respective evaluation form.
Psychologists:Chatham University Psychology Continuing Education Programs (PCEP) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PCEP maintains responsibility for this program and its content. For questions related to these CE credits, please contact Mary Beth Mannarino at mmannarino@chatham.edu
Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors in Pennsylvania can receive continuing education from continuing education providers approved by the American Psychological Association. Chatham University PCEP is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education. PCEP maintains responsibility for this program and its content.For questions related to these CE credits, please contact Mary Beth Mannarino at mmannarino@chatham.edu
Nurses: ANCC (RN, CRNP): This activity has been submitted to PA State Nurses Association for approval to award contact hours. PA State Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. For questions related to these CE credits, contact Carrie Nickerson at carolyn.j.nickerson@gmail.com
Professional Coaches: ICF CEU’s will be awarded by the International Coach Federation, Pittsburgh Chapter upon full attendance at program(s) and completion of evaluation(s).
Clergy: CEU’s will be awarded by Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Office of Continuing Education.
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