Power Hour: When Celebrities Die – The Grieving Experience and Parasocial Relationships 8/11/26
Date/Time
Time: 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Eastern
Location: LIVESTREAM
Cost: $19.99
Credits: 1 CE Credits
Events open 15 minutes before the hour. Registration ends 30 minutes before the event opens.
Presenter(s)
CEU Creations presents:
Power Hour: When Celebrities Die – The Grieving Experience and Parasocial Relationships 8/11/26
FEATURING:
- A clinically useful framework for “celebrity grief” by comparing parasocial vs. social relationships.
- Practical, session-ready tool to help clients navigate grief policing, stigma, and disclosure when mourning public figures.
EVENT INFO:
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Eastern
Events open 15 minutes before the hour. Registration ends 30 minutes before the event opens.
COST:
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS:
Social Workers:
ASWB ACE – 1 Clinical CE credit
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 1 Contact hours
Psychologists:
APA – 1 CE credits
Counselors:
NBCC ACEP – 1 Contact hours
NY State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 1 Contact hours
Addiction Professionals:
NAADAC – This course is not eligible for NAADAC Contact hours.
Nurses:
California Board of Registered Nursing – 1 Contact hours
Case Managers:
CCMC – This course is not eligible for CCMC CE Contact hours.
Long-Term Care Administrators:
This course is not approved for NAB/NCERS participant hours.
Attendance or applied credit certificate available for other credentials.
Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credits.
Counselors: If this course awards Ethics hours, please note that some states do not recognize Ethics hours; in those cases, Contact hours will be awarded.
Target Audience: Social workers, psychologists, counselors, nurses
Counseling Skill Group:
N/A
OVERVIEW:
Individuals form significant relationships with celebrities they admire, known as parasocial relationships, which they may hesitate to share about in session. When celebrities pass away, it leaves a lasting impact on individuals, family and society similar to social relationships such as family members and friends. Participants will learn about similarities and differences between parasocial relationships and social relationships, the impact of celebrity death on individuals, families, and society, and will apply Worden’s Four Tasks of Mourning to provide an understanding about how individuals are impacted by and navigate celebrity death. Participants will also be provided with a brief overview on the field of Geek Therapy and learn Geek Therapy-Informed interventions to utilize with clients when working through celebrity grief.
OBJECTIVES:
By attending this training, you will be able to:
1. Compare and contrast parasocial relationships vs. social relationships.
2. Describe the impact of celebrity death on individuals, families, and society.
3. Explain the impact of grief policing and stigma on an individual’s disclosure of grief over celebrities.
4. Apply Worden’s Four Tasks of Mourning and Geek Therapy-Informed interventions to clinical work with celebrity grief.
AGENDA (all times are Eastern):
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Presentation
PRESENTER BIO:
Dawn Davis is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and AAMFT Approved Supervisor in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and Texas. Dawn has worked in community mental health since 2017 and has been in a supervisory position since 2020. Her supervisory experience includes supervising several clinicians at student-intern and master’s level and non-clinical providers, including certified peer specialists, nurse navigators, and behavioral health nurses. In 2020, Dawn opened her private practice, Therapy That Gets Me, LLC, where she currently serves as a full-time clinician and clinical supervisor. In addition, Dawn is a Certified Geek Therapist with special training in applying geek concepts to the therapeutic process. Dawn has also provided continuing education presentations for a variety of entities and organizations.
COURSE PARTICIPATION INFORMATION:
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This live webinar is fully interactive. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led discussions. A computer or mobile device is required. Zoom account is not required.
You will receive a reminder email approximately 24 hours prior to the start of the training and a link to join the webinar will be in your CEU Creations account under Member Profile.
To receive credit, you must log in on time, attend the entire presentation, and interact.
POST EVENT: When the training ends, your attendance will be processed using Zoom analytics. Once processed, the evaluation link will be available in your account and we ask that you complete it within 3 days of the training. Once your evaluation is complete, your certificate will be available in your CEU Creations account within 24-72 hours.
Please contact us at [email protected] with any questions.
FINE PRINT
SOCIAL WORKERS: CEU Creations, #1239, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/24-11/22/27. Social workers completing this course receive 1 Clinical CE credit.
CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0616. This activity is approved for 1 Contact hours.
PSYCHOLOGISTS: 1 CE credits. CEU Creations is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CEU Creations maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
COUNSELORS: 1 Contact hours 
CEU Creations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6941. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CEU Creations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0199. This activity is approved for 1 Contact hours.
ADDICTION PROFESSIONALS: This event is not eligible for NAADAC Contact hours.
NURSES: 1 Contact hours. CEU Creations is an approved provider of nursing CEs through the California Board of Registered Nursing. Provider number: CEP17905. All states retain their own licensing authority through their own boards. Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure transferability of the CE credits.
Cancellation Policy: Registrants must cancel their registration in their CEU Creations account. No email, faxes, or mail cancellations will be accepted. Cancellation fee: $25. Refunds will not be given for cancellations within five (5) business days prior to the workshop date.
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