Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Grief, Loss, and Dying During COVID-19
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
This course explored how we are experiencing death during the COVID-19 pandemic. The modules drew links to existing theory and research on grief and loss, with a focus on what helps and what matters towards the end of life and during the process of bereavement.
4 weeks, 2 hours per week
Brian Rock
Director of Education and Training and Dean of Postgraduate Studies
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- 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.
Syllabus
Week 1
Introduction to the course
Approaches to working with death and dying
Minority ethnic communities and the pandemic
Working during the pandemic - a hospital social worker speaks
Week 2
The experiences of health and care staff during the pandemic
Impossible choices - moral injury and the pandemic
Inside the care homes and the Intensive care units
Different cultures of care - medicine and the long term care of the dying
Week 3
How families experienced the pandemic
How people adjusted and coped
The importance of rituals
Week 4
What helped people cope - refuges, wobble rooms and reflection
How to offer a safe reflective space for people in distress or overwhelmed by death and dying
Beyond the crisis - will Covid change our attitudes to death and dying?
Issued on 26th April 2021
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