GC 775 - Perinatal Loss for Grief and Health Care Professionals

Course overview

This CE course introduces the healthcare and behavioral healthcare professional in understanding the painful world of miscarriage, still-birth and infant death. Losing a child is difficult at any age but for many, miscarriages are disenfranchised and not recognized. Others who suffer the extreme pain of stillbirth or losing an infant weeks after, face a very long grieving trajectory of healing. This course discusses these types of losses and the pain associated with them. Whether a nurse, physician, funeral director, chaplain, social worker, counselor, birthing coach, or doula, the study of perinatal grief is important to prepare the healthcare and behavioral healthcare professional in helping parents work their way through the grief and healing but to also have a strong understanding of the entire process. This course hence covers not only grief counseling, but also educates one about the medical processes, terms, and protocols one may experience with miscarriage, stillborn or infant death.