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Eighth Virtual Training Session entitled "Dealing with Grief and Loss-During COVID-19 Pandemic"
Eighth Virtual Training Session entitled "Dealing with Grief and Loss-During COVID-19 Pandemic"


Dr. Sobia Aftab, Associate Professor at Institute of Clinical Psychology, University of Karachi conducted the eighth virtual training session entitled as "Dealing with Grief and Loss-During COVID-19 Pandemic" on Thursday 23rd April 2020 for volunteers of COVID-19 Mental Health Helpline initiated by the Institute of Applied Psychology. She discussed different grief reactions, myths related to grief, stages of grief. She guided on Effective Communcations Skills, Emotional Support Strategies and Adaptive Ways of Coping to deal with and manage grief related to death of a loved one due to Coronavirus. She shared helpful techniques to bring on surface the supressed emotions and other techniques like deep breathing, relaxation exercise using affirmative statements, and grounding techniques to help deal with and manage emotional pain. Dr. Sobia highlighted the importance of writing a Grief Journal to give voice to whatever one may be going and express grief and guided the process to write it. Focus of her workshop was on teaching volunteers to help their clients deal with the grief and loss they are experiencing after the death of a loved one.