Human Resources committee  One of the lessons we learned from the terror is...we had one of our Ph.D. students do her thesis on friends' grief. We could show that close friends of those who were killed were at the level of siblings when it came to their grief. It went down a bit sooner than for siblings. W

Human Resources committee  The principles are, as just mentioned, that there's an outreach, that the system reaches out, or the help reaches out, and they don't have to go around looking for that help. There has to be immediacy; it needs to be there very quickly. It has to be built on good information and

Human Resources committee  There are some good articles that sum this up, from some of the big societies, I think from the American Academy of Pediatrics. They will be helpful for you to look at, because they see that this is what people want. This is also based on feedback from users, if we use that term

Human Resources committee  Your system in Canada is different from the one we have in Norway. I think it's important that those who meet the families at hospitals and in the health services have a responsibility to secure follow-up over time. Then you have the more voluntary organizations coming in and hel

Human Resources committee  There should also be flexibility, regarding whether to go away from the work or not. Some people really cope well when they have another leg to stand on, so not only being a bereaved parent, but also having a work life. It just has to be an adjusted work life.

Human Resources committee  Most of the families would be met by their institutional services. That means the community's crisis team will meet every family. If it's in the hospital, there will be a hospital responsibility. Specialized services are second-line services. If somebody is really suffering a lo

Human Resources committee  In my doctoral thesis, I looked at those who went back to work and those who stayed at home. That was mothers in the 1980s. It was mostly fathers who went back to work or who were working. Those who went back to work soon functioned better than those who stayed at home, but tha

Human Resources committee  First of all, we followed up at three time points after the loss, after one and a half years and then after two and three years. We found an extremely high number of parents who struggled with complicated grief reactions, around 80% of them, and more than 60% with more post-traum

Human Resources committee  We have to think of having systems in place for different kinds of deaths. What we see in disasters and terror—often at once—makes for a governmental response. We have a much better system for reaching out than we have for the day-to-day experiences, but our systems must include

Human Resources committee  I can hear you.

Human Resources committee  It's 10 minutes to two.

Human Resources committee  Okay, I will not spend seven minutes, but I will just give a brief background about my work. I started out as a student in the late 1970s working with parents who lost children to cancer and other serious diseases. In 1980, I started working at the neonatal intensive care unit