Bereavement Professional

  • 1.  Coping With the Holidays

    Posted 09-11-2015 03:20 PM

    Hello,

    I am seeking handouts and ideas for a coping with the holidays educational workshop. I am planning for this to be a one time event that will be held throughout the small towns that make up our service area.

    If anyone has any experience with an event of this type please share your input. Any handouts, videos, etc that you have found helpful to facilitate this type of workshop would be much appreciated.

    Thank you!
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    Sara Wade
    Social Worker/Bereavement Coordinator
    Essence of Life Hospice
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  • 2.  RE: Coping With the Holidays

    Posted 09-14-2015 09:00 AM
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    Jon P Yarian
    Bereavement Coordinator
    Genesis Hospice
    563-421-5400
    2546 Tech Dr. Bettendorf IA 52722

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  • 3.  RE: Coping With the Holidays

    Posted 09-14-2015 09:12 AM

    We offer something weekly between Thanksgiving and New Year's and one of those sessions is always open to families – adults as well as children or teens and we make memory boxes.

     

     

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    Patti Anewalt, PhD, LPC, FT

    Director of Pathways Center for Grief & Loss

    Hospice & Community Care

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  • 4.  RE: Coping With the Holidays

    Posted 09-15-2015 06:03 AM
    Hello,

    I've just written a book called Mourning and Milestones:  Honoring Anniversaries, Birthdays and Special Occasions After a Loved One Dies. It comes out October 30th.  I've begun doing 90-120 minute interactive workshops based on ideas in the book and would be delighted to offer a workshop to any bereavement center within a reasonable traveling distance from Rochester, New York.  The book has a website:  www.mourningandmilestones.com that includes a brief description of the workshops and presentations I can offer.
    There are pages at the end of the book with lists of questions that can be used to design workshops.

    Kathleen Fraser
    facilitator at Lifetime Care



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  • 5.  RE: Coping With the Holidays

    Posted 09-15-2015 04:19 PM

    Hello Sara,

     We offer a couple of holiday sessions for adults, one in November, and one in December. We provide opportunities for participants to talk about what is most difficult for them as they consider facing the holidays in the midst of their grief - and then share ideas related to how to cope with stress. We also talk about the importance of giving oneself permission to do things differently and to feel okay about skipping some holiday traditions altogether. We brainstorm ways of memorializing our loved ones during the holiday season, encouraging them to talk openly about their loss with others during family gatherings. We don’t use any videos, but prefer more of an open discussion format. These groups have been well attended and we have gotten some excellent feedback from participants.

     This year, we are also offering a special one-time session for children/teens and their caregivers, where we will make memorial ornaments in honor of their loved one. We are hoping for a good turnout for this. I hope this is helpful.

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    Carmella Dow, MSW

    Bereavement Coordinator
    Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association, Inc.
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  • 6.  RE: Coping With the Holidays

    Posted 09-14-2015 09:38 AM

    Sara:  I have found that CareNotes has a good selection of holiday booklets on the topic of grieving and/or surviving the holidays.  You might check them out on:  http://www.onecaringplace.com

     

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    Michael Jones
    Mercy Hospice Inpatient Unit
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  • 7.  RE: Coping With the Holidays

    Posted 09-14-2015 01:27 PM

    The way that Chelsea described their process is the same way that we do ours, with the exception that we do not require participants to meet with a counselor prior to attending the group. We do ask that people pre register and have the counselor leading the group call any new participants prior to their first time attending. This phone conversation sometimes results in the bereaved deciding to make an appointment prior to attending the group. Also, if someone does "drop in" to the group they are not turned away. We have found that there are a certain number of bereaved who only want the group experience and by requiring a 1:1 appointment, they opt out entirely.  It has not been a problem for us.

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    Amy Sloboda, MA, LPAT, CT
    Child & Adolescent Counselor
    Hosparus Grief Counseling Center
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  • 8.  RE: Coping With the Holidays

    Posted 09-15-2015 09:22 AM

    Sara, Along with the excellent Care Notes already mentioned, which allow the bereaved to choose areas of concern, our office really likes the Hospice Foundation of America publication Journeys, which has an edition dedicated to dealing with the holidays.  This is in a newsletter format and feedback from families is that it has been very helpful.  I also believe that one their website there are links to handouts for a variety of topics, Holidays included.

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    Merrie MacHose, MA
    Bereavement Coordinator
    Heartland Home Health Care and Hospice
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  • 9.  RE: Coping With the Holidays

    Posted 09-17-2015 08:00 AM
    Merrie, thank you for the nice mention of Hospice Foundation of America's newsletter "Journeys." HFA does have an issue that focuses specifically on helping bereaved people cope with grief during the Winter Holidays; we offer other special issues as well, including one focusing on Spring Holidays (Mother's and Father's Day, etc.)
    We'd like to offer members of this group a discount on any orders of our Winter Holidays issue, using the code WH15 at our website, http://store.hospicefoundation.org/home.php?cat=11 



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