7. Grief Counseling Flashcards
What type of grief is this:
- Most common
- Most people are able to cope with grief reactions on their own
- Get thru the grief and then learn to continue living life
- Others may need additional help
Uncomplicated Grief
What is this:
- Involves helping people facilitate uncomplicated grief
- Aimed for people feeling anxious, sad, etc. etc., but still function and continue living somehow
- Healthy adaption to the tasks of mourning
- More flexible
- Within a reasonable time frame
Grief Counseling
How do you facilitate complicated grief?
Grief therapy
What is this:
- Specialized techniques used to help people with complicated grief reactions
- Difficulty resolving the loss on their own
- Outside of a reasonable time frame
- Long term
Grief Therapy
What is the TEAR Model of Grief?
T - to accept the reality of the loss
E - experience the pain of the loss
A - adjust to a new life without the person (new normal)
R - reinvest in the new reality
Who does grief counseling? (+Examples)
Professionals
(doctors, nurses, psychologists, counselors, social workers)
Trained Volunteers
(must be supervised by a licensed professional)
Where does grief counseling take place?
In a comfortable but private place for client
Where does grief therapy take place?
Professional setting to ensure all equipment is accessible
Why should people wait after 30 days to do counseling?
To have time to reflect and realize their routine must change
What are some significant predictors to be able to identify the At-Risk Bereaved
- Non supportiveness from social network
- Traumatic circumstances of death
- Concurrent life crisis
- Investigation and interrogation
- Relational problems
- Condition of remains
What are the Counseling Principles and Procedures?
- Help Survivor actualize the loss
- Identify and experience feelings
- Assist living without the deceased
- Help find meaning in the loss
- Help find ways to remember the deceased
- Provide time to grieve
- Interpret “normal” behavior
- Allow for individual differences
- Examine defenses and coping styles
- Identify pathology and refer
What are some useful grief counseling techniques?
- Evocative Language
- Use of Symbols (Artifacts)
- Art Based Therapy Strategies
- Writing
- Drawing
-Role-Playing - Directed Imagery
- Memory Boxes
- Memory Rocks
What are ways to facilitate Grief through Funeral Rites
- Make real the fact of the loss
- Opportunity to express thoughts and feelings
- Social Support network
- Affirm the life of the deceased
- Have stationary for the kids to write a letter and put in casket
- use the sesame street projects
- Catering
