Grief, Trauma and Families Grief, Trauma and Families - - PDF document

19/04/2016 1

Grief, Trauma and Families

• Grief, Trauma and Families
• !"

The worst grief that anyone can ever experience is the grief you are experiencing right now. We are a mind, a body, and a spiritour breath is the bridge.

Bereavement......

# $% # #

& '

• (

19/04/2016 2

Grief and Mourning

# )! * !" # (''! # +(% ,

Grief is messy so we tend to want to sanitize mourning I want Hallmark grief......

• A word on types of grief:

# -. # & # # $!(!

What do we grieve?

# Physical / !

• # Symbolic / - %

.! ' !( !

19/04/2016 3

After a death a bereaved person’s life has been changed forever.....life can be good again but is never the same again What has been lost? How has their world changed?

! % expressedstoriedexperienced (% find its way to meaning

Ok if I have to accept that people die then I want each death to be a “good one”

Trauma and Separation Distress

# Separation Distress0-.( (((! # Trauma Distress0! %

Feelings are the same but there are more of them, more intensely and for longer

19/04/2016 4

Sudden and traumatic death

# # ( ( # 1( # %% # %(2! !!/ ' # 3(!

Comprehending a death:

# 1 ! ! # -.! !

Reacting to a loss: (bad news of the day is we have to feel it)

# )!! ' # (!( ((

Favorite “cures” for grief:

# 4 # )

• !
• (! !'

(! %

• Reconcile and make meaning:

# 5 '!!/ !! # &! (

• # +

19/04/2016 5

Hallmark moment:

6%(! 7! (!

How can we help:

# 4 % # $, ( # 6% ! (! # ( / (%( (

Some of what survivors have taught me so far:

# , (

• #

# # 1!-. # 89 ( / !! # ! !!' # ) # ( # 6 (!(! ,!

• Thank you