Bereavement Professional

  • 1.  Complicated Grief

    Posted 05-24-2022 10:23 AM

    Is anyone aware of a course or training on complicated grief vs. regular hard grief?  I am an experienced hospice bereavement coordinator, not a therapist, so I don't want therapy techniques.  I want to know more about how to identify people with complicated grief who would benefit more from a therapist as opposed to regular companioning through grief.

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    Linda White
    Coord, Bereavement

    Heart to Heart Hospice of Fort Worth
    6100 Southwest Blvd., Ste. 200
    Fort Worth, TX 76109

    Phone: (817) 731-9700
    Fax:      (817) 731-9708
    Cell:     (817) 789-9238

     




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  • 2.  RE: Complicated Grief

    Posted 05-25-2022 09:23 AM
    This is a great question and I look forward to the discussion. In our program, I struggle a bit with differentiating our role as hospice bereavement providers, focusing on support, education and referrals when needed, versus therapy and clinical approaches. And I 'am' a clinical social worker. Our organization clearly defines our bereavement role as support, education about the grief process and journey and referrals to community based resources when ongoing and more clinical support is identified. So I work with social work and chaplain professionals from time to time who want to do therapy and/or follow for months and months. And I don't intend to weigh in on providers who do provide more like what we do not provide. Different approaches are good--

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    Kathy Campbell, LCSW
    Manager
    VITAS Healthcare of Fort Worth
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  • 3.  RE: Complicated Grief

    Posted 05-25-2022 10:24 AM
    Have you looked at the Center for Complicated Grief website?
    COVID-19 Resources Self-Assessment Tool. Brief Grief Questionnaire: Use this 5-item questionnaire if you think a patient might be experiencing complicated grief. Webinars & Podcasts. Grieving Those Lost From The Pandemic: Dr. Katherine Shear discusses how saying goodbye is even more complicated than usual with WPR and listeners call in to share about their loved ones who have died during the ...
    prolongedgrief.columbia.edu
    Hospice Foundation of America also has information. www.hospicefoundation.org
    They have on demand programs. 

    Hope that helps,

    Veronica M. Ibarra, MS, FT, BCC

    Bereavement Counselor

    Presbyterian Home Health, Hospice, and Palliative Care

    Albuquerque, NM

    Bereavement Services: 505-559-7055

    Cell: 505-377-1601

    Hospice Main: 505-559-1000


    "Healthy grief does not involve a denial of the past any more than it involves a refusal to embrace the future."

    -- Ann Kaiser Stearn





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  • 4.  RE: Complicated Grief

    Posted 05-25-2022 11:06 AM

    Linda, I recently took a Grief Support Specialist Certification program through Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI.  They will be offering another course soon.  We were given a lot of information on how to support people through their grief journey and language to use. 

    It was a very positive course and I was able to use a pandemic training scholarship through Michigan's MiLeap program.  Not sure if that funding is available but it was very helpful. 

    Thanks,

    Julie

     

     

    Julie Beck, LBSW

    Volunteer & Bereavement Coordinator

    UP Health System Home Care & Hospice

    901 W. Sharon Avenue Suite #1

    Houghton, MI   49931

    Phone (906)-483-1160   Option 2

    Fax (906)-523-9536

     



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