Description
Title: Grief & Sickness Behavior
Speaker: Dr. Aoife Earls MSc ND
In presentation Dr. Aoife Earls discusses grief, how it presents clinically and discuss its clinically similarities, stages of grief, prolonged grief disorder, physical impacts of grief on physiology, the HPA and cortisol. Dr. Earls explain how to physically support and facilitate the grieving process, nutraceuticals and herbs for grief and reducing cortisol, Chinese medicine model of emotions. There is a review sickness behaviour and discuss how grief influences sickness behaviour, clinical assessment tools for grief and sickness behavior and Dr. Earls shows specific tools to initiate immediately to support patients through grief, basics of anger and anxiety in grief, antidotes to sadness.
Learning objectives:
- You will be able to determine when the brain is reacting to a physical illness, producing symptoms of anxiety and depression
- You will be able to have strategies to manage mental health concerns in spite of physical illness that are simple and
- You will know when to refer and which disciplines to most appropriately support mental health when further counselling aside from our training are required and essential to
- You will know how to apply the research and information into treatment strategies into clinical practice, or just life understanding of what might be affecting individuals from a mental-emotional perspective
