Course: Grief, Loss, and Dying During COVID-19

In this video, we asked Sharna to reflect on the emotional impact of changes that have come about due to the pandemic. She then discusses the death of a patient …

What feelings and thoughts did the video and the reading evoke? Do you think the workers would have been helped by these strategies? If so, how? If relevant to your …

During the pandemic, health workers and care staff in homes and the community across the globe have experienced unprecedented pressures, anxieties and challenges. During this week we will look at …

Can you help with people’s stress and grief during the Coronavirus epidemic? In the modern world we have located a lot of responsiblity for helping with specialists – doctors, therapists, …

The pandemic continues to evolve, as do global efforts to manage, prevent and contain the virus. Each of us will be challenged in some way and it is difficult to …

Your reflective journal In order to get the most out of your learning experiences during the course we recommend keeping a reflective journal or notebook. A reflective journal can help …

In the following extract, author Yuval Noah Harari asks Will coronavirus change our attitudes to death? He concludes that quite the opposite could occur. The modern world has been shaped …

Think about your work and home life. Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve had to make an impossible choice? A choice where someone would be harmed or …

As you are aware, we’ve covered some emotive and difficult content in this course. We have been encouraging you to ‘check in’ with yourselves by taking a moment to think …

In this video, we meet Sharna, a Social Worker from the UK. She talks about some of the ways her job changed during the pandemic and about the emotional impact …

In an essay written for the British Medical Journal in May 2020, Iona Heath spoke on behalf of older people. Acknowledging that the virus has hastened the end of life …

As people came much closer to death and dying during the pandemic they needed ways of surviving emotionally and psychologically. In the first part of this week we look at …

In this video, Professor Cooper talks with Brian Rock, Director of Education & Training and Dean of Postgraduate Studies at the Tavistock and Portman NHS FT. They discuss why this …

In this video, Sharna describes the ‘refuge’ that was set up for her and her colleagues. This is another example of a safe space that has emerged to help workers …

In this extract from an interview, author and film-maker Naomi Klein, describes how, “We must not return to the pre-Covid status quo, only worse.” Interviewer, Katherine Viner, reflects on the …