Podcast Episode 11
Supporting Families Through Grief and Loss
Supporting Families Through Grief and Loss
Parent educators work with families through many life cycle events, including grief and loss. Dr. Kirk Coverstone, a consulting psychologist, and Roschel Servantes, Director of Learning and Development at Parents as Teachers National Center, join us to talk about what home visitors might expect in the immediate aftermath of a death experienced by a family they work with and specific ways to provide grieving families with practical and emotional support. This episode addresses loss and grief in detail and may be difficult to hear. Listener discretion advised.
Parent educators work with families through many life cycle events, including grief and loss. Dr. Kirk Coverstone, a consulting psychologist, and Roschel Servantes, Director of Learning and Development at Parents as Teachers National Center, join us to talk about what home visitors might expect in the immediate aftermath of a death experienced by a family they work with and specific ways to provide grieving families with practical and emotional support. This episode addresses loss and grief in detail and may be difficult to hear. Listener discretion advised.
Guests
Guests
Dr. Kirk Coverstone is a Consulting Psychologist and the President of Stonebridge Health Consultants, LLC. Dr. Coverstone has been practicing for over 35 years, ensuring that high quality, evidence-based, mental health evaluation, and treatment services are made available to the children being served in the South Central and Hill Country Region of Texas.
Roschel Servantes is Director of Learning and Development at Parents as Teachers National Center. Roschel brings more than 25 years of experience serving children and families across a variety of home visiting and community-based programs, including Parents as Teachers, Early Childhood Intervention, inclusive child care, and pediatric rehabilitation outpatient services.