Dealing with Disenfranchised Grief (Module 3)

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Dealing with Disenfranchised Grief (Module 3)

Module Information

This module will explore the nature of disenfranchised grief by understanding the language of grief and loss. Disenfranchised grief can include suicide, traumatic death, and other losses that are challenging to process because they are unacknowledged, avoided or not legitimized.

Learning Objectives

  • You will understand the various types of disenfranchised losses in their contextual setting
  • You will learn various interventions and techniques to use in addressing disenfranchised loss
  • We will explore the symptomology of grief and the role trauma plays in bereavement.
  • We will explore the current research in the field of bereavement and trauma and the distinctives of mourning as it pertains to disenfranchised grief.

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Dr. Keith Taylor

Dr. Keith Taylor

Facilitator

Formerly Keith was a Chaplain Palliative Care, Southlake Regional Health Centre. He also worked as a Trauma Clinician, Trauma Management Group, Ottawa and was a Trainer for the Toronto North Command Firefighters for Critical Stress Incidents. Previously he was also the Director, Genesis Bereavement Resource Centre in Newmarket. After 30,5 years of serving as the Senior Pastor of Newmarket Church of the Nazarene, Keith retired in 2021. He is a Member of the Association for Death Education and Counselling. Keith is a grief educator and seminar speaker. Founder/Director: Handle with Care. Bereavement Counselling Services and author of Well-Intentioned People Say Dumb Things: Practical advice for comforting those who are grieving. He teaches at Tyndale University in the department of Thanatology. He is an advisor for Tyndale Centre for Grief and Loss.