PPT-Helping Children and Families Deal with Grief and Loss

Bob Brinker Parent and Community Education Specialist Expectations and Questions Group Rules Share your wisdom Ask questions Take care of yourself Cheat Have fun Agree to disagree Honor peoples stories. Advisory Group: Ann Baker, Tom . Brideson. , . Danielle Byers, Anthony . Hillin, Len . Kanowski. , Donna Stanley, Sally . Wooding. NSWIOP: . Danielle . Byers, Vanessa . Edwige. , Anthony Hillin, Megan Wynne-Jones (and new trainer ) . Dr Joanne Robinson, Chartered Clinical . P. sychologist. DClinPsychol. ., . CPsychol. .. “One eye sees, the other feels”. Paul Klee. Bereavement/Grief. Is a normal process. Persistent and prolonged. 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. Dr. Jim . Guinee. UCA Counseling Center. October 20, 2008. APEN . Conference. f. P. lanning a trip?. Obstacles to planning. Pervasiveness of denial. Denial leads to living in the “. here and now” . 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. The School Counselor’s Guide. Lacee. Tolliver. Objectives. Common causes . of childhood grief and loss. Developmental factors. Identify normal and complicated reactions to loss and bereavement . Personal and cultural factors. Grief impacts us holistically…. These five needs overlap.. Social, Physical, Cognitive, Emotional, Spiritual. Coping with Loss and Grief. Grieving is a common and natural reaction to any loss that brings on strong emotions. . Kathy Briglia, MSW,LCSW. Clinical Social Worker. Intensive care Nursery. Duke university medical center. GRIEF. Types of Grief:. Delayed . Disenfranchised. Ambiguous . Inconclusive . Complicated. Average Response. “. 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.. 1. “We grieve when we lose someone or something that is important to us and of value”. True or False. You can only grieve a death?. Grief is normal?. The pain from grief will go away faster if you ignore it?. What is it and how can we help? Dr Susan Delaney Copyright Susan Delaney 2021. This copy provided for reference only – do not edit, adapt or reuse To understand grief we have to understand attach 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