Webcast: How the Discomfort of Grief Can Help Us: Recognizing and Adapting to Loss During the COVID-19 Outbreak, 4/8/2020

About this forum

Dr. Karestan Koenen welcomes Dr. Kathy Shear from the Center of Complicated Grief at Columbia University to join Drs. Christy Denckla and Archana Basu for an online discussion on ways to foster adaptation to losses associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Presenters provide a brief review of what grief is like, how to better understand what you are feeling, and ways to cope with the losses related to the pandemic. The event concludes with a question and answer session moderated by Dr. Bizu Gelaye.

Dr. M. Katherine Shear
Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry in Social Work
Columbia School of Social Work
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons;
Director
Center for Complicated Grief
Columbia School of Social Work

Dr. Christy Denckla
Research Associate
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Archana Basu
Research Associate
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Karestan Koenen
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Bizu Gelaye
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health