working effectively with traumatic grief · strategies that work for them, and to develop new ones...
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Working effectively with
traumatic grief
Nicola Dobson – Family Support Services Lead
Willow Wood Hospice, Tameside
Overview
What is grief?
Models of grief
Working with grief – methods &
impact
Keeping ourselves safe
Lois Tonkin’s ‘Growing Around
Grief’
Data from Apr-Dec 2017 – client
categorisation at start of intervention
82.5% categorized with moderate to
severe psychological distress
29% categorized with severe psychological
distress
Help people to see that grief is an active process which requires them to meet challenges
Support people to use coping strategies that work for them, and to develop new ones
Motivate people to resist the attractions of grief
Listen, suggest, rehearse, inspire, comfort, console, debrief, normalise, acknowledge, validate…
Based on Attig, T. “How We Grieve” (1996)
Resources
Practical
Resources
Practical (Maslow’s hierarchy of needs)
Physical (strength, agility, activities)
Psychological (humour, memory, intelligence, coping mechanisms)
Inter-personal (people and animals)
Spiritual (faith and non-faith based)
Data from Apr-Dec 2017 – client
categorisation at end of intervention
88% categorized as healthy or with low
level or mild psychological distress
40% categorized as healthy
52% making significant movement of 3-5
categories
Keeping ourselves safe
“You can’t wipe the tears from someone else’s face without getting your hands wet.”
Zulu proverb
Any questions?