Grief After Traumatic Loss

1 Meeting Place,Valdosta GA 31601

11 March, 2022

Description

Join us and Dr. Jackson Rainer (Atlanta) for a day to consider ethics, practice, and recovery from the impact of Covid-19 (6 CEUs) 6 CEUS given to Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists & Licensed Professional Counselors. Outline: Title: Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Traumatic Loss and Covid Grief Recovery Leader: Jackson Rainer, Ph.D., ABPP, Board Certified Clinical Psychologist Atlanta, Georgia Overview: This workshop is oriented to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic losses on quality-of-life impairments of individuals, families, and community survivors. Restrictions caused by social distancing have increased the likelihood of complicated grief as manifest by fear, loss, social isolation, and incomplete psychological processes. The effects of bereavement, magnified by the demands of coronavirus mitigation, will be examined and explored. Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will identify the different ways people grieve because of COVID-19 and how pandemic losses can lead to complex, prolonged, incomplete, and complicated grief. 2. Participants will understand and explain concepts and interventions associated with persistent complex bereavement disorder. 3. Participants will define how loss is a risk factor for depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder; participants will discern differences between such pathology and the social response known as languishing. 4. Participants will determine who is at risk for struggling to cope and effective ways hospice and mental health professionals can treat and support people who are struggling. 5. Participants will identify resources for professionals and lay communities on how to help those who are grieving. Session One • Introductions, goals, objectives of the day • Fear, loss, social isolation, and incomplete grief due to COVID-19 o The amplification of mental health problems due to the loss of a loved one during the pandemic o Loss as a risk factor for depression, anxiety, PTSD o The definitions of complicated and incomplete grief  Risk factors for complicated grief  Risk factor of incomplete grief • The effects of the coronavirus pandemic on grief stages • Case studies of COVID grief interventions and losses Break Session Two • Managing bereavement around the coronavirus o The process of adapting to the loss o Revisiting grief and its range of reactions  Maladaptive thought, dysfunctional behaviors and somatic reactions, emotional dysregulation • How grief is different during COVID-19 o Separation distress o Post-traumatic stress o Shifts in executive functioning o Loss of connection; isolation and alienation; poor social support o Increase in self-blame and guilt • Languishing and flourishing as conceptual non-pathological responses to COVID-19 • Traumatic grief after traumatic loss o Dominance of fear o An expressive trauma integration model o Integration of loss; shaking the sense of self; shift of resilience o Shattered assumptions about the world, the self, and others o Obsessions and ruminations Lunch Break Session Three • Complicated grief and resilience • A definition of prolonged grief disorder o Yearning o Emotional pain o Existential loss of meaning o A sense of the surreal • Attachment theory and the rupture of core beliefs • Persistent complex bereavement disorder o Diagnosis o Developmental/methodological considerations o Phenomenology and manifestation • “Risky” grief processes Break Session Four • CARE: cultivate and communicate compassion, assess risk factors and needs, refer when appropriate, ensure continuity of care over time • GRIEF RISK: guilt, regret, isolation, experienced multiple losses or other stressors, financial hardship, relationship dependency or challenges with the deceased, individual history of mental health challenges or trauma, suddenness or distressing circumstances of death, kinship type • Accessing resources • Case studies • Summary of day Hospice of South Georgia provides care to any person of any age facing a life-limiting illness, with life-expectancy of approximately 6 months or less. For patients and families seeking care focused on quality of life and comfort, Hospice of South Georgia is the right choice for you or your loved one's care. Hospice care is provided most often in the home, but is also offered in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and at the Langdale Hospice House.  The Langdale Hospice House is an inpatient care center available exclusively to patients under the care of Hospice of South Georgia.  The sooner we can help, the more patients and their families can benefit!Hospice care is covered by Medicare, Medicaid and most private insurances. It is the policy of Hospice of South Georgia not to discriminate on the basis of race, age, color, sex, religion, national origin, physical or mental handicap or ability to pay in the delivery of services or treatment.Anyone can refer themselves or someone they care about to Hospice of South Georgia. There is no cost and no obligation for an assessment. If other services besides hospice care can better meet the needs of someone, we will help locate and refer to those services.  Our service area reaches into 8 counties of South Georgia, which include: Atkinson, Berrien, Brooks, Clinch, Cook, Echols, Lanier and Lowndes counties.