Caring for Grief: Its Process, Paradoxes and integrated Care
Tracks
Stream 2
Friday, July 26, 2024 |
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM |
Conference Centre Room 3 |
Overview
60 Minute Presentation
Presenter
Dr Judith Murray
Caring for Grief: Its Process, Paradoxes and integrated Care
Abstract
Grief is not a disorder that needs treatment. It is not a problem that needs a solution. It is a healing and a complex, and at times paradoxical, process. It is both very challenging to live in the process and also amazing and at times awe-inspiring. Working with grief is about working with a process of healing that doesn’t easily fit our widely accepted singular explanatory psychological models and their preferred interventions. For this reason many practitioners find it somewhat confusing to work in the area of grief. Working with grief offers a real opportunity to integrate many of our theories and our approaches to care. This presentation will consider theories of grieving, principles of integration in the area and consequent practical approaches to care of the grieving. It will consider integration through understanding grief from viewpoints of neurobiology, development, threat and living in a world of uncertainty. It will consider how different common psychological approaches can be used in an integrative manner to individualise care for different grievers.
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Judith is an endorsed counselling psychologist, a registered nurse and a qualified secondary school teacher. She has held positions of Associate Professor in Counselling and Counselling Psychology at The University of Queensland Australia as well as a registered nurse in Haematology and Oncology. She also established a Loss and Grief Unit in the School of Population Health. Judith currently works in private practice. She has served with both national and international aid organizations. She has worked to further the use of loss as an integrative concept on which to base person-centered care across sectors and disciplines.