In Episode 8, Dr. Donna Schuurman and Dr. Monique Mitchell of Dougy Center discuss a newly released “Pandemic Grief Scale” for screening people for “Dysfunctional Grief” after a COVID-19 death, and their strong concerns about how this tool was developed and how it may be used.
Helpful Links:
• Becoming Grief-Informed: A Call to Action
• Pandemic Grief Scale (Lee & Neimeyer, 2020)
• A Critical Analysis of the Pandemic Grief Scale (Schuurman, 2021)