When Grief Goes Viral: Psychological Assessment and Intervention in the Corona Crisis

With the global pandemic of COVID-19 sweeping the planet has come the loss of a world of once familiar routines, relationships and resources that previously conferred on our lives a sense of security and meaning. This program provides carefully validated screening tools for both coronavirus anxiety as the contagion spreads and the complicated bereavement it will leave in its wake, and suggests evidence informed interventions for dealing with these disturbances constructively. There will be time allocated for live question and answer. Participants will also receive an archive version of the program.

Original webcast date: April 15, 2020

• Describe two validated screening tools for assessing coronavirus anxiety and unresolved issues in bereavement that invite clinical attention.
• Identify two evidence-informed risk factors for complicated or prolonged grief exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and two guidelines for addressing them in therapy.

Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD