Born Sleeping

Grief Counseling and Creating Relationships with Families
1 hour
2025
ACCME
ASWB
APA
Nationally Accredited

From bereavement traditions to modern frameworks, this course prepares providers to respond with sensitivity and strength. Build skills in empathy, communication, and teamwork to enhance grief support.

Perinatal loss and grieving are not uncommon experiences for families. This presentation will discuss the history of perinatal bereavement as well as the importance of the relationship between the interprofessional team and the patient or family who is suffering loss.

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Born Sleeping

About this course

As a dedicated professional, you understand the importance of navigating the sensitive area of child loss - a critical, yet often overlooked part of care. Join us as we journey through the evolution of bereavement practices across the globe, helping you understand the foundations that underpin our current approaches. We’ll introduce you to an innovative framework that strengthens bonds with grieving families and provide you with practical communication strategies for effective and empathetic interactions. We’ll delve into the importance of teamwork in providing holistic grief support, showcasing how collective strength enhances professional service.

If you’re driven to enhance your empathy, improve your communication skills, and expand your ability to provide support in instances of child loss, this transformative course awaits. Enroll now to push your professional boundaries further and strengthen your role as a compassionate pillar in your field.

What you will learn

At the completion of this activity, healthcare providers will be able to:

  • Describe historical influences on bereavement care around the world
  • Discuss an original framework for developing relationships with grieving families
  • Apply practical tools for developing relationships and some “do’s and don’ts” of working with grieving families
  • Explain the interprofessional collaboration required to support grieving families.

Course content

8
sections
1h
total length
Born Sleeping - Grief Counseling and Creating Relationships with Families
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Introduction
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3m 8s
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Historical Aspects of Perinatal Bereavement
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12m 16s
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Historical Aspects of Perinatal Bereavement - Lesson Recall
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5 min read
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Concepts of Relationship
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10m 13s
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Concepts of Relationship - Lesson Recall
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9 min read
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Practical Tools for Developing Relationships and Working with Grieving Families
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13m 31s

Course details

Release Date:
8/1/2023
Activity Type:
Enduring Material
Expiration Date:
8/1/2026
Activity Format:
Online

Accreditations

This course has been reviewed and approved through the rigorous standards of leading accrediting organizations, ensuring your continuing education credits are formally recognized and respected across professions and states.

ACCME

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education

Accredited for physician continuing medical education

ASWB

ASWB Continuing Education Credits
Association of Social Work Boards

Accredited for social work continuing education

APA

APA CE Credits
American Psychological Association

Accredited for psychology continuing education

ANCC

ANCC Contact Hours
American Nurses Credentialing Center

Accredited for nursing continuing education

Additional Information

  • Automatic reporting to CE Broker for participating states
  • Instant certificate generation upon course completion
  • Credits accepted for license renewal
  • Meets state requirements for continuing education

Course Faculty

Learn from leading experts who bring their real-world experience and evidence-based practices to this comprehensive training.

Megan Arbour

Megan Arbour

Associate Professor, Frontier Nursing University
PhD, RN, CNM, CNE

Megan Arbour, PhD, CNM, CNE, FACNM, is a certified nurse-midwife and certified nursing educator with a passion for teaching graduate nursing and midwifery students. She grew up in rural western Maine and was an elementary music teacher prior to attending midwifery and nursing school at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Her clinical practice involved work at several underserved clinics in Columbus, Ohio, providing midwifery care to those who were unable to access care elsewhere in the impoverished urban location. After 10 years of teaching and leading the midwifery program at the University of Cincinnati, Megan joined the faculty of Frontier Nursing University, where she currently works as an Associate Professor of nursing. It brings her great joy when students demonstrate skill in understanding, synthesizing, and applying scientific evidence in their clinical practice. Through the journey of life, Megan’s passion for trauma-informed teaching and recognizing disability as diversity has grown. She is honoured to share this passion with you. Megan lives in Ohio with her husband, 3 children, and many pets.

Areas of expertise:
Nurse Midwifery
Midwifery
Health Equity
Nursing Education
Jenna Lapointe

Jenna Lapointe

Mental Health Therapist, Betterhelp
LICSW

Mental health therapist specializing in trauma‑informed clinical practice.

Areas of expertise:
Postpartum Mental Health
Trauma-Informed Care
Psychotherapy
Visualization
Heather Walker

Heather Walker

Perinatal Nurse Educator & Consultant
DNP, RN, RNC-IAP, C-ONQS, C-EFM, RNC-OB, RNC-MNN

Nurse leader with advanced credentials in perinatal safety and maternal‑child health education.

Areas of expertise:
Perinatal Safety
Obstetrics
Fetal Monitoring
Maternal Child Health

Disclosure


Disclosures

Partners requires every individual in a position to control educational content to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that have occurred within the past 24 months. Ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

All relevant financial relationships for anyone with the ability to control the content of this educational activity are listed below and have been mitigated according to Partners policies. Others involved in the planning of this activity have no relevant financial relationships.

  • Heather Walker, DNP, RN, RNC-IAP, C-ONQS, C-EFM, RNC-OB, RNC-MNN
    Educator/Owner, Walker Innovative Learning Partnership
     •  has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose
  • Jenna Lapointe, Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker
    Mental Health Therapist, Betterhelp
     •  has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.

The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

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ACCME

Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education

ASWB

Association of Social Work Boards

APA

American Psychological Association

ANCC

American Nurses Credentialing Center

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