Grief Counseling Program Article on Dealing with Grief

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Short help article on a few ideas in working through grieving. Please also review our Grief Counseling Program to learn more

The article, 5 Tips for Plowing Through Grief—and Surviving , by Hambeth Hochwald states

“For author Laurie Burrows Grad, August 1, 2015, marked the day her life unalterably changed when her husband, Peter, died in her arms. “One minute he was laughing and happy, and the next minute he was gone,” she says of her husband of 47 years. “I fell to the floor in heaving sobs like you see actors do in the movies. But it wasn’t a movie. This was real life and it was happening to me.”

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Grief Counseling Certification Article on Losing a Child

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Sad article on losing a child and the mourning and hardships that occur afterwards. Please also review our Grief Counseling Certification

The article, Life after the death of my child, states

“Before my eight-month-old daughter, Abby, died unexpectedly, I thought I knew plenty about grief. The pervasively popular five stages of grief model, developed by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, was familiar to me: Feelings of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance would need to be worked through before coming out whole again on the other side.”

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Pastoral Thanatology Program Article on Dying at Home

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Good article on how more Americans are learning of the luxury and peace of dying at home if possible over the sterile environment of dying in the hospital. Please also review our Pastoral Thanatology Program 

The article, Fewer Americans are spending their final days in the hospital and more are dying at home, by Melissa Healy states,

“The American way of dying seems to have become less frantic, desperate and expensive.

That’s the upshot of a new study that finds that seniors insured by Medicare who died in 2015 were less likely to do so in a hospital and more likely to pass away in a home or other community setting than those who died in 2000.”

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Grief Counseling Certification Article on Grief and Listening to Grief

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Good article on the grief we can experience when we hear of others pain and grief or tragedies.  As grief counselors, one can experience great empathy and relate to others pain and loss.  How we process it and deal with it is part of the price we take as listeners. Please also review our Grief Counseling Certification

The article, Hearing someone else’s tragedy carries own grief, by Ted Wiard states,

“Healing and connection happen with the willingness to share thoughts and emotions. If this could safely happen more often, my guess is there would be less isolating and fearful feelings that lead to wedges within our society, rather than unification.”

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Grief Counseling Certification Article on Loss of Job

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Good article on grief and how it affects any loss, including losing a job. Losing a job is very much a grief many experience and very few acknowledge. Please also review our Grief Counseling Certification

The article, The ‘Disenfranchised Grief’ of Losing Your Job, by Catie Lazarus states,

“It’s comforting to know people like Meg Spinella, a hospice chaplain, exist. Spinella radiates empathy, even as she jokingly describes herself as “more of a ‘shit happens’” than “an ‘everything happens for a reason’ person.” It certainly felt more like the former when, in 2007, budget cuts bumped her out of the Catholic hospital she worked at in Oregon. Spinella didn’t get to say goodbye to her dying patients.”

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Legal Nurse Consulting Article on Nursing Home Neglect

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Good article on recognizing nursing home neglect. If you would like to learn more about Legal Nurse Consulting, then please review the program and see if it matches your academic and professional needs.

The article, How to Recognize Nursing Home Neglect and What to Do About It, by Randy Appleton states

“Families who make the difficult decision to place an elderly parent or disabled spouse or child into a nursing home expect their loved one to receive sufficient and professional care. Sadly, incidents of sometimes shocking nursing home neglect appear to be on the rise. Worse, the mistreatment of mentally and physically vulnerable patients often escalates to outright abuse.”

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Healthcare Case Management Program Article on Education in Healthcare

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Good article on the importance of healthcare professionals seeing healthcare as more than just medicine but also education.  This is especially true in healthcare administration as countries continue to grow and their healthcare systems need educated administrators.

The article, Education: Healthcare is much more than just medicine, by Pradeep Panda states,

“According to the Asian Development Bank, not only is India bound to possess the world’s largest workforce by 2027, it is also projected to sustain its impressive GDP growth rate of 7.6%.”

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The article emphasizes the critical importance of educated professionals to meet the needs of growing healthcare needs in a variety of populations, but with most emphasis on India

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Pet Loss Grief Counseling Certification Article on Mourning a Pet

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Grieving a pet is critical to recovery.  With pets being so much as like family, if one does not take the time to grieve the loss of a pet, then one can face further grief complications.  Allowing oneself to grieve the loss of a pet can help one ultimately recover and accept the loss in a healthy fashion

The article, Paw Prints: Grieving process can bring you relief from pet’s death, by Niki Laviolette states,

“Most people love their pets enough to consider them members of the family. Pets provide companionship, emotional support and unconditional love. When a beloved pet dies, it’s natural to feel sorrow and experience grief.”

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For children, the death of a pet may be the first experience with death. A child may blame himself, his parents or the veterinarian for not saving the pet. A child may also feel guilty, depressed and frightened that others he loves may be taken from him.

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Substance Abuse Counseling Program Article on Alternatives to Pain Meds

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Alternative pain management compared to pain killers is an important thing to avoid possible addiction.

The article, Virtual Reality: The Alternative To Marijuana And Opioids For Pain Management, by Reenita Das states,

“Those who have tried on a virtual reality headset can tell you that the experience is lifelike, almost real. If the projection is of you standing atop a tall building’s edge, you will be afraid of falling – the experience is real enough to fool your brain! Gaming is a natural application of the technology, but what is the application in healthcare and what can it do enhance the patient experience?”

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Healthcare Case Management Program Article on ER Costs

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Emergency room visits can be necessary but also costly financially.  This article looks at the cost incurred by average Americans at the ER but also many of the issues Americans face against insurance companies who refuse to pay for the care

The article, As an Insurer Resists Paying for ‘Avoidable’ E.R. Visits, Patients and Doctors Push Back, by Reed Abelson, Margot Sanger-Katz and Julie Creswell, looks at some of these issues and also connects you to other resources to help understand the nature of the ER. It states

“Anthem denied thousands of claims last year under its “avoidable E.R. program,” according to a sample of emergency room bills analyzed by the American College of Emergency Physicians. The program, which Anthem has been rolling out in a handful of states in recent years, reviews claims based on the final diagnosis of patients.”

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