Produções sobre o luto na pandemia da COVID-19

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to bring discussions about grief in the COVID-19 pandemic. Grief is addressed in different stages of the life cycle (children, adolescents, adults, elderly people), in different contexts (health professionals, long-term care facilities) and conditions (cancer, substance abuse). The theme is discussed through an experience report on Mourning Seminars in the Pandemic and integrative literature reviews, bringing current reflections. The text was written to fill a gap in scientific production on coping with grief in the pandemic, aiming to support theoretical discussions, scientific production, practical action and the implementation of social and health public policies. This work reflects the commitment of professors of the discipline “Psychosocial Bases of Practical Médica III”, offered by the Graduate Course in Medicine at the Campus of Três Lagoas da Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (CPTL/UFMS). The book presents productions on mourning in the pandemic, with the collaboration of other professors with different backgrounds, as well as students of the Master's Course in Nursing at CPTL/UFMS, highlighting the potential of interdisciplinarity, as part of the teaching activities of content aimed at for mourning, palliative care and scientific methodology in the discipline. Due to the current nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the urgency in scientific production regarding the period we are living in, the book's content provides theoretical bases so that students and teachers from the most diverse areas can learn about the different forms of mourning and coping experienced at that moment. As productions on the subject are recent, we believe that there is no work available that addresses grief in different life cycles (children, adolescents, adults and elderly people), in different contexts (health professionals, long-term care facilities) and conditions (cancer, substance abuse).