Living Loss and Transitional Grief
About this course
This session explores living loss and transitional grief, highlighting how these experiences can contribute to compassion fatigue. We’ll define living loss, introduce examples of living loss, and identify the forms of grief most closely linked to ongoing, unresolved loss. The presentation equips professionals working in health and human services areas with effective tools and strategies to navigate both the grief their clients face and their own emotional responses, helping them maintain resilience and wellbeing in their vital roles supporting others.
Learning Objectives
Articulate a clear definition of living loss and transitional grief and explain how this loss informs their understanding of their clients' lives and their own
Identify common forms of living loss and the associated forms of grief
Learn how to form appropriate responses to grief
Adopt one or more coping strategies that may be implemented quickly
Audience: Health Professionals, Youth Workers, Social Service Providers, First Responders