Geriatric Mental Health Education Series #4
The Division of Geriatric Psychiatry presents the:
“Geriatric Mental Health Education Series”
2. Explore the connection between systemic oppression, cultural trauma, and collective grief.
3. Discuss the impact of sociopolitical grief upon those who work in health and social service care settings.
4. Identify constructive ways to approach sociopolitical grief at both the personal and broader structural levels.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022
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Part 4, Featuring:DR. DARCY HARRIS, MD PhD FRCPC,Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences, in the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF SOCIOPOLITICAL GRIEF ON HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE WORKERSWhile most of us think of grief as an individual response to loss, there are losses that originate at the level of social and political institutions, with many creating a unique type of grief that is hard to describe. Sociopolitical grief includes the direct losses that are experienced by individuals and groups as a result of political policies, ideologies, and oppression enacted and/or empowered at the sociopolitical levels. We see the suffering that political policies and laws have caused those who are vulnerable or who have been moved to the margins of society, such as the marginalization and oppression of Canada’s Indigenous people and the creation of the residential school system in Canada. We also grieve the losses created by inaction, such as the loss of our precious environmental balance and resources. The concept of sociopolitical grief will be explored from many different perspectives, along with approaches to better understand the impact of losses that originate at the structural level and their impact upon those who work in health and social care settings. Participants will have the opportunity to explore their own experiences of sociopolitical grief and find approaches that may help to address these issues from a compassionate perspective directed towards the pain and moral injury that are central to this form of grief. |
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Dr. Harris is a Professor of Thanatology at King’s University College/ Western University in London, Canada, where she also maintains a private clinical practice specializing in issues related to change, loss, and transition. Dr. Harris developed the degree program in Thanatology at King’s University College. In addition, she is a faculty member of the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, dedicated to post-graduate training in grief therapy leading toward Certification in Meaning Reconstruction in Loss. She has served on the board of directors of the Association for Death Education and Counseling and is a current member of the International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement. |
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This event has been accredited:
The GERIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION SERIES is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. (1.5 CREDITS)
EACH PARTICIPANT SHOULD CLAIM ONLY THOSE HOURS OF CREDIT THAT HE/SHE ACTUALLY SPENT PARTICIPATING IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM.This program has no commercial support.
