Description-

The role of psychic events within the practice of clinical social work is only beginning to be tapped. Social workers who are knowledgeable about the research in parapsychology can offer clients an important kind of support and still remain on solid ground professionally.

Learning Objectives

1.    Study the relationship of psychic experiences to healthcare—past, present and future.

2.    Be able to identify the varieties of psychic experiences.

3.    Review the parapsychology research including the major contributors to the field and the issues raised by skeptics.

4.    Gain sufficient knowledge to be comfortable talking about psychic events with clients and colleagues.

5.    Learn what psychics and mediums do and be able to recognize—and help clients differentiate—the gifted, the average and the dangerous individuals in these unregulated  fields.

6.    Be able to integrate clients’ psychic experiences into treatment of grief and trauma and end-of-life care.

7.    Understand the impact of a scientific acceptance of psi, which is a change in worldview.