Trauma And Grieving

I chose the GriefShare support group because as nurses we will need to help our patients and their families with the grief process when a loved one passes away. On March 29, 2014, I met Claudette St. John, the group leader, at 6:45pm at Northwest Christian Church in Acworth, GA. Rick Baldwin also attended the meeting. The group meets from 7-8:30pm. Claudette shared that she has been doing grief support classes for the past 20 years and the past 3 years she has been doing GriefShare at Northwest Christian. She lost her teenage daughter in a car accident 20 years ago. She expressed that there really are not any rules, other than just respecting each individual. She tasks herself with keeping the meetings on track and has a democratic leadership style. GriefShare is a Christian based program consisting of 13 weekly session. Participants do not need to attend all 13 sessions, the sessions can also be done individually. A workbook is given to those that are participating in the program. GriefShare’s goal is to help those experiencing grief, work through the process and recognize the different aspects of grief that they may encounter.

The groups I helped co-facilitate focused on death-loss for children and their families. I would help children process their grief through checking-in with their feelings, reading stories, interacting with them in play, and engaging in conversations about these experiences. Many times I was surprised by the levels of understanding and

Psychoeducational groups emphasize, “using education methods to acquire information and develop related meaning and skills.” (Brown, 1997, p.1) This grief support group works as a psychoeducational group, through focusing on education and knowledge for healing and growth. In this group, members value knowledge as it further brings growth through their grief journey. The facilitator educates the group with thirty-minute videos made by grief experts to support the members in learning proper coping skills and processing certain aspects of their grief. The group also characterizes a psychoeducational group through providing emotional support with discussion before and after each video. During this short discussion time the group worked together, to help apply the skills to their lives and process topics discusses in the video.

Grief and loss are some of the most defining characteristics of the human experience. Therefore, dealing with grief and loss is one of the most important things humans must learn. While there are many approaches, Jennifer Kent uses her film The Babadook to suggest that suppression is not a healthy way to deal with grief. By thoughtfully planning the mise-en-scene, soundtrack, and narrative storytelling, Kent teaches viewers that suppression causes the inner monster to come out in all of us, just as it did to Amelia in The Babadook.

Grief counseling, individual counseling, grief support groups are beneficial services that assist the client with grief, loss, depression, and other emotions that comes with loss. Speaking with a religious leader, participating in an extracurricular activity, communicating with family, and medical examination are different avenues that are also helpful with coping with grief, stress, depression, and fatigue.

Working with loss, death and bereavement: a guide for social workers, Sage, London. Wimpen. & Costello, J. 2012. Grief, loss and bereavement: evidence and practice for health and social care practitioners, Routledge,

I have learned a lot in the Intro to Abuse course, including how I respond to traumatic events; how abuse affects attachment and how my caregivers affected my self-esteem; my resiliency as well as the skills, traits and professionalism necessary to work effectively with abused children. I will use this knowledge to develop a better understanding of myself and to become a better Child and Youth Care practitioner.

It will be that there is an emphasis that they can be helped through counselling and the counselling process and treatment, as the client is able to live through their loss through talking and explaining it all from their own perspective and not from others, although this can be referred to when they are then telling

He underwent major back surgery which with a miracle it was a huge success and got him back on his feet. After a long recovery process from the surgery and still battling this illness we finally found out what was wrong. He is one of four people in the world to have a illness called perm disease. The best feeling in the world was when they came out and told me they have found the problem and that it was treatable. After sending his blood work all the way to London UK, they found it. It was a miracle. To look at him then I was bracing myself to say goodbye. Leaving him in the hopsital in a different city every night was tougher than imaginable. But, looking at him today it's like nothing happened he's back to normal. Through this process I talked to many doctors, nurses, family and friends.

The purpose of psychodynamic group counseling is to help college students acknowledge and understanding unresolved conflict, which may be contributing to their prolonged periods of grief (Kipnes, et al., 2002). Psychodynamic group counseling provides the support needed for college students to resolve conflict and manage their emotions (Piper, et al., 2001). Counselors achieve this goal by creating an environment that allows college students to deal with their present experiences of loss by providing a reward system for the college students efforts to cope with loss

Sufferers of complicated grief may require grief therapy and this therapy is more concentrated than bereavement counseling. Peers and other mental health workers can provide bereavement counseling. Because grief therapy requires more specialized approaches to counseling such as the use of therapy models and psychotherapy, specialized mental health practitioners should provide

It may be family members, friends, or intimate relationship partner. This loss brings out the deepest of human wounds. It may arise shared feelings including sorrow, sadness, fear, hurt, confusion, depression, loneliness, anger, despair, shame and guilty. The psychological process of grieving includes the following; opening to the presence of the loss, dispelling misconceptions about grief, embracing the uniqueness of the pain, exploring the feeling of loss, recognizing that an individual is not crazy, understanding the needs of mourning, nurturing oneself, reaching out to the others, seeking reconciliation and appreciating one’s process of transformation (Corey, G., & Corey, M. S, 2014). I will help the families of the victims in their bereavement by accomplishing the mentioned tasks. First, I will make them understand the reality of loss and will contribute to accept the same. I will tell family members that everyone have to go one day eventually. This is the bitter facts about the life. Thus, I will convince them to accept the reality of the loss. Second, I will work through the pain of grief and help them to express their emotional pain about loss, and at the same time will nurture themselves both physically and emotionally. Third, I will assist them with adjusting to the environment in which deceased is missing. I will help them to learn to develop a new relationship with the

Being that parents and family members sometimes overlook the grief in their children, support programs that are dedicated to them are a vital part of their grieving process. Support programs such as: The National Alliance for Grieving children, The Dougy Center, The Healing Center, and many more, provide counseling, activities and support groups to help families and children deal with their grief. The National Alliance for grieving children not only teaches about childhood grief, but they also allow families to find grief support in an area near them. The Alliance hosts grief awareness events, activities for grieving children and teens, trainings and conferences on how to help the child, and provide a list of supportive books for children and teens. The Alliance and the Dougy center are very

dreams, acting or feeling as if the event were being relived, intense distress upon being

When someone close to you loses a friend or family member, it can be difficult to know the best way to offer support. Many questions come up: how can we help? What should we do?