Presenter Ed Geraty, LCSW-C (MD), LICSW (WV), LCSW (VA), LICSW (DC)
CEUs: Category 1 | 3.0 ETHICS CREDIT
The Altered States–Continuing Bonds Protocol (AS-CBP) is an integrative clinical framework for helping clients process grief through focused attention, hypnosis, guided imagery, emotional expression, memory, continuing bonds, and meaning reconstruction.
This presentation examines the protocol’s clinical foundation, ethical and safety considerations, detailed session sequence, post-session processing, integration practices, documentation guidelines, and structured four-session model.
Participants will learn how AS-CBP helps clients explore unresolved emotions, unfinished conversations, relational memories, and the enduring influence of a deceased person while maintaining client autonomy and a non-directive therapeutic stance.
The presentation emphasizes transforming the bond with the deceased into a psychologically adaptive connection that supports meaning, values, legacy, and continued engagement with life.
Workshop Objectives:
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe the clinical foundation and five therapeutic processes of the Altered States–Continuing Bonds Protocol (AS-CBP).
- Identify ethical principles, safety considerations, clinical cautions, and contraindications associated with altered-state grief interventions.
- Explain and apply the major stages of an AS-CBP session, including preparation, induction, experiential contact, emotional expression, continuing-bond development, reorientation, and grounding.
- Use post-session processing questions and between-session practices to support meaning reconstruction, legacy development, values-based action, and healthy continuing bonds.
- Describe the four-session AS-CBP model and document the interventions, client responses, clinical outcomes, and ongoing treatment plan appropriately.
Agenda:
10:00 - 10:30 | Apply the major stages of an AS-CBP session, including preparation, induction, experiential contact, emotional expression, continuing-bond development, reorientation, and grounding.
10:30 - 11:00 | Identify ethical principles, safety considerations, clinical cautions, and contraindications associated with altered-state grief interventions.
11:00 - 11:30 | Describe the four-session AS-CBP model and document the interventio:00ns, client responses, clinical outcomes, and ongoing treatment plan appropriately.
11:30 - 12:00 | Use post-session processing questions and between-session practices to support meaning reconstruction, legacy development, values-based action, and healthy continuing bonds.
12:00 - 12:15 | Break
12:15 - 12:45 |Understanding Meaning reconstruction and how it integrates loss into the life story
Recommended Reading:
- Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas (Healing Your Grieving Heart series) by Alan D. Wolfelt PhD
- How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies by Therese A. Rando
- Grieving with Hope: Finding comfort as you Journey through Loss by Samuel J. Hodges IV and Kathy Leonard
Camera-on required. GWSCSW is committed to verifying that the same standards are as applicable for virtual workshops as in person workshops. The participant must be observed as present and attending both; therefore virtual workshop attendance requires participants to keep their video camera on for the duration of the presentation, except during scheduled breaks, to receive CEUs.
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DC, VA, MD Social Work -- Category 1 | 3.0 CEUs
Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in is DC, Maryland, and Virginia to sponsor social work continuing education learning activities and maintains full responsibility for this program.
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 NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider -- 3.0 Credit Hours
Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7880. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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