#HC-02-12 Grief, Loss, and Dying During COVID-19
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation TrustDescription
Help those dealing with loss to make sense of the future and develop resilience
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many of our assumptions about how to navigate loss.
For many, the kaleidoscope of conflicting feelings – grief, guilt, anger, anxiety, regret – is heightened. Leaders in organisations are finding it equally hard to know how to help staff.
As the uncertainties of the ‘survival’ phase of the crisis give way to a complex ‘new normal’, rituals and markers of death will continue to be disrupted and lives will be afflicted by chain reactions of loss.
The longer-term impacts of psychological and social stress on many population groups will surface, and therapeutic and self-help responses will need to be modified and expanded.
This course will introduce you to the key skills and principles required to provide effective, safe, and helping responses to anyone dealing with loss during this time.
Who will you learn with?
I qualified as a social worker in 1987 and completed my professional doctorate in social work and emotional wellbeing at the Tavistock in 2019 . My research focused on end of life care in care homes.
I work at the Tavistock & Portman NHS FT as a Clinical Psychologist for the Team Around the Practice (TAP) and Curriculum Developer in the trust’s Directorate of Education & Training.
Who developed the course?
For 100 years, the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has been at the forefront of bringing new approaches to treating those who are in mental distress.
What Will I Learn?
- Explore the changes inflicted on individuals and communities by Covid19 that necessitate adjustments to how we think about and manage people’s losses, and processes surrounding death and dying
- Reflect on the variety of lived experiences of the crisis and appreciate the importance of listening carefully to emotionally charged narratives
- Explore familiar theories and methods of work that respond to loss, grief and death within the new ‘frame’ of a post Covid19 world
- Explore how powerful feelings and disturbing thoughts can be passed around among people, making it hard to think clearly and retain perspective.
- Explore the differential impact of Covid19 on different sub populations, ethnic groups, workforce sectors, countries, and how helping responses need to take account of these variations
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of the skills and principle needed to facilitate ordinary ‘barefoot’ helping responses to a range of groups and individuals.
Topics for this course
Introduction to the course
Welcome and introduction00:04:11
Learning with us
Keeping a Reflective Journal
Loss and COVID-19: The Personal and the Political00:08:46
A quick guide to the course
The fear of death
Introducing Sharna, a hospital social worker
Thinking about loss, dying and death
The socio-economic landscape: how we’re not “all in it together”
Lecturer understands the links between our body and mind in a way that is very special and also can be tremendously helpful—and simple.
It was good but reactions to situations vary from person to person, also when a person is going through difficult time...its difficult to understand those emotions and not react
If you're experiencing anxiety and fear, this is a great tool to have. I may not understand it, but I know it will help me get through this very scary time.
I would highly recommend this course, especially during this time of uncertainty.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- The course is designed for health and social care workers, home-based carers, key workers, and the families and friends of those directly or indirectly affected by death and dying during the COVID-19 crisis.
- The course is also relevant for managers and leaders in organisations working with individuals and families affected by death and dying during the crisis.
- With extensive use of visual and audio material giving access to the voices of people affected by the crisis, and developed by practitioners with long experience in the field of loss and bereavement, the course offers a range of empathic, reflective perspectives, activities and insights that will help restore a sense of balance and resilience.