Ep 61 – Motivational Interviewing & Grief
Ep 61 – Motivational Interviewing & Grief
Glenn Hinds Motivational Interviewing & Grief
Dr. M. Katherine Shear is the Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry and the founding Director of the Center for Prolonged Grief at Columbia University School of Social Work. Dr. Shear is a clinical researcher who first worked in anxiety and depression. 
For the past 25 years, she has focused on understanding and treating people who experience persistent, intense grief, which is now an official diagnosis called Prolonged Grief Disorder in the ICD-11 and DSM-5. She developed and tested Complicated Grief Therapy/Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy, a short-term, strength-based intervention that helps foster adaptation to loss and confirmed its efficacy in three large NIMH-funded studies.
Dr. Shear is widely recognized for her work in bereavement, including both research and clinical awards from the Association for Death Education and Counseling and invited authorship of articles for Uptodate and the New England Journal of Medicine. Her work includes more than 330 peer-reviewed publications. She’s developed several widely used assessment instruments and a PGDT instruction manual.
Dr. Shear received a BS in biology with honors from the University of Chicago and an MD from Tufts University Medical School. She completed residencies in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry and a psychosomatic fellowship before beginning her clinical research career.
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Motivational Interviewing and grief
Katherine Shear explores grief, adaptation after loss and the role Motivational Interviewing can play in compassionate conversations with people experiencing bereavement. She discusses why grief changes over time, what people lose when someone important dies and the healing milestones that can support adaptation.
The episode also considers practitioner self-care, self-compassion and differences between sudden and expected loss. These themes connect with Compassion, Acceptance and Reflective Listening.
In this episode
00:00 – Introduction and episode preview
04:40 – Dr. Shear’s early MI story
12:00 – What is grief? Why do we experience it? Why does it change over time?
17:17 – What are we losing when a loved one dies?
26:18 – Adaptation after loss
32:15 – The six healing milestones
56:45 – The experience of the practitioner: Self-care and self-compassion
1:02:30 – Sudden vs. expected loss
1:07:08 – Dr. Shear’s work around grief in the African-American community
1:11:16 – End of episode
Links and contact information:
Websites:
https://prolongedgrief.columbia.edu/
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