PPT-Understanding Grief And Loss

A Journey of Healing Christina Cassani MS President and Executive Director a ngelhouseacccgmailcom Presented by Angel House Bereavement Center Inc 2015 What Society Teaches About Grief. Kenneth J. Doka, PhD. Professor of Gerontology, The College of New Rochelle. Senior Consultant, The Hospice Foundation of America. Goals. Understand how orientation toward death changes through the life-cycle. Elisabeth . Kubler. - Ross & David Kessler. Sensitivity to Patient Needs. Developed by . Kari Slade, . BS Health Science, MA Public Health. Roosevelt High School Health Careers Program, . Minnesota. Kenneth J. Doka, PhD. Professor of Gerontology, The College of New Rochelle. Senior Consultant, The Hospice Foundation of America. Goals. Understand how orientation toward death changes through the life-cycle. Change. Transitions in life include those we choose and those we do not choose to experience. Sometimes, . Change = Loss = Grief. WHAT DOES GRIEF LOOK LIKE?. Physical reactions:. Fatigue. Lethargy. Insomnia. Listening Support Volunteers’ Training Course, . St Michael’s Hospice. 2015. Why bother with theory?. Helps us to understand reactions . Helps us to respect difference. Helps to normalise experience of grief. Counseling or Therapy?. Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of things that are gone. And you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become part of. Sandi Hebley, RN, CHPN, LMSW. Faith Presbyterian Hospice. Grief? Us???. whatsyourgrief.com (blog). Cumulative grief aka grief overload aka “holy crap I can’t handle all this loss!”. Objectives. Grief is the normal response of sorrow, emotion, and confusion that comes from losing someone or something important to you. It is a natural part of life. Grief is a typical emotional, physical, and spiritual reaction to death, divorce, job loss, a move away from family and friends, loss of good health due to illness, or a breakup of an intimate relationship.. Jonathan Cole. Poole Hospital and University of Bournemouth. jonathan@colefamily.org.uk. Grieving in people with neurological impairment. Jonathan Cole. Poole Hospital and University of Bournemouth. jonathan@colefamily.org.uk. Produced in Partnership:. Webinar Moderator. Tracy McPherson, PhD . Senior Research Scientist. Public Health Department. NORC at the University of Chicago . 4350 East West Highway 8th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814 . “. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not . knowing. ,. . not . curing, . not . healing...that . W. Derrick Johnson, LCMHC, LCAS, MAC, NCC. Executive & Clinical Director. NorthStar Clinical Services. Charlotte, NC . djcltnc@gmail.com. GOALS. To learn about reactions to loss and how these losses relate to substance abuse.. Revd Dr . Paul Fitzpatrick. winterbirder@outlook.com. . Significant Terms. BEREAVEMENT. : to have lost someone or something, typically through death; from the Old English: ‘. bereafian. To have been deprived’. Paper accepted for publication by Contemporary Nurse brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Victoria University Eprints Repository Grief 2 of