Description

Most deaths occur after a terminal illness during which family members work hard to care for their loved one and say goodbye. This is an important and meaningful time for most families. Family caregivers often suffer themselves as well.  They often experience pre-death grief and other difficult stressors. This webinar presents grief trajectories of bereaved caregivers from pre-death grief until three years after their loved one’s death. We identify trajectories of caregivers vulnerable to complicated grief and discuss possible intervention strategies. Given the usual high rate of professional contact in this setting, intervention should be feasible and potentially effective in fostering adaptation to loss.  

Webinar recorded on November 8, 2019.

 Learning Objectives

1. Describe the characteristics of different grief trajectories in a population of bereaved caregivers
2. Explain the characteristics of vulnerable caregivers
3. Recognize strategies to foster adaptation to loss and  prevent grief complications

About the Presenter

Mai-Britt Guldin is a clinical psychology specialist and bereavement researcher in palliative care at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark. She is especially interested in furthering understanding loss and grief and  in a public health approach to providing grief therapy.  She is the author of 5 textbooks on loss and grief numerous book chapters and more than 25 research papers. She is a popular interviewee on public media. She has been teaching and training professionals in Denmark about prevention of mental illness and treatment of complicated grief for more than 10 years.

Continuing Education

American Psychological Association

The Center for Prolonged Grief at Columbia School of Social Work is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for Prolonged Grief maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Note: Many state boards recognize the APA approval. Please check with your state licensing board.

New York State Education Department

1. NYSED State Board for Psychology recognizes the Center for Prolonged Grief as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0150).
2. NYSED Board for Social Work recognizes the Center for Prolonged as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (#SW‐0727).
3. NYSED State Board for Mental Health Practitioners recognizes the Center for Prolonged Grief as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists (#MFT-0080).

Note: Non-NYS social workers, marriage and family therapists, and other professionals, please check with your state licensing board. Many states have recognized our continuing education programs as we are at a CSWE-accredited institution and part of a regionally accredited university.