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As our population ages, we support aging clients amidst the joys and challenges of aging. Erik Erikson’s psychosocial stage for older adults guides us to consider how to support our clients in developing the experience of integrity rather than despair. This webinar will consider what contributes to the experience of integrity or despair at the interpersonal and societal level. This workshop will explore factors that impact this developmental task: loss, agency, belonging, calling, meaning making, living in the and, bullying in senior living, shame, ageism, and mortality.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify contributing factors and life experiences that lead to integrity or despair in the senior years
• Describe how ageism and shame contribute to despair
• Summarize interventions that can be utilized in order to support clients in developing a sense of integrity

Presenter
Constance Palmer, LCSW
Ms. Palmer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who is an experienced teacher, presenter, therapist, and school counselor with more than thirty years of experience working with children, youth, and families. She is the owner of Therapeutic Learning Connections, which offers social and emotional learning workshops to community organizations, schools, and workplaces. She is also a Grief Educator for Imagine, a Center for Coping with Loss, which offers grief support groups and grief education.  

CE's New Jersey
This course, “Integrity vs. Despair: The Joys and Challenges of the Senior Years,” and the trainer, Constance Palmer, have been approved by the Addiction Professionals Certification Board of NJ. This course, provided by Behavioral Health Matters, approval #403061626REC3s, is approved for 3 continuing education credit hours by the APCBNJ. Credentials issued by the APCBNJ, the NJ Board of Marriage and Family Therapy Examiners, and the NJ Board of Social Work Examiners recognize such courses. This 3 CE course is approved for social work continuing education hours in accordance with N.J.A.C. 13:44G-6.4c12.

Last Updated: 05/09/26