Presenter – Marney Thompson, RCC, MA, Director of Psychosocial Services, Victoria Hospice

Competencies –

• Domain 1 – Principles of PC & palliative approach. Utilizes a holistic approach to care with awareness of how illness, death and bereavement impacts all aspects of person’s and family’s functioning.
• Domain 3 – Communication. Provides the person and family/caregiver bereavement counselling and psychosocial education through evidence-based frameworks, if within role and expertise.
• Domain 6: Loss, grief, & bereavement. Expert consultant regarding loss, grief, and bereavement. Assesses complex grief reactions and situations, such as multiple loss, traumatic loss, and pre-existing vulnerabilities including mental illness and addiction, abuse, and neglect.
• Domain 8 – Self care. Understands and attends to the impact of death, dying and bereavement on caregivers (self, family, team, professionals).
• Identify and define Prolonged Grief and distinguish it from ‘normal’ grief
• Understand and describe the prevalence and psychosocial correlates of Prolonged Grief
• Discuss and describe the theoretical orientations and basic interventions used in Complicated Grief Treatment (CGT)