Bereavement Coordinator
Kaiser Permanente Continuing Care/Hospice
2701 NW Vaughn St Ste 140
Portland
ORUSA
97210-5344
Email:
kristine.a.munholland@kp.org
Biographical Sketch: Kristine Munholland, Ph.D., MSW, has been the bereavement coordinator for Kaiser Permanente Hospice in Portland, Oregon, since 2003. For a program that serves 1100 grieving families a year, Kristine performs both clinical and administrative roles, providing and overseeing their assessment, individual counseling, support group, and memorial services, and collaborating with DIDG and QA personnel in the leadership and evaluation of the hospice and bereavement programs. Kristine is responsible for facilitating hospice staff and volunteer training around issues of emotional support, children’s bereavement, and grief and loss, and presents on similar topics to mental health providers and medical residents in the larger Northwest Kaiser Permanente system.
Kristine is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Portland State University and in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Portland. Kristine is serving her second term on the Professional Education Committee of NHPCO and has contributed to their partnership with The EPEC (Education in Palliative Care and End of Life) Project. She served on the Oregon Hospice Association Education Committee in 2008-2009, and has served on the Human Subjects Research Committee at Reed College since 2003.
Kristine received her Ph.D. in Human Development and her Masters in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed her social work internships in Oncology and Children’s Bereavement Support, and conducted her dissertation research on grieving teen adaptation after the death of a parent at The Dougy Center, The National Center for Grieving Children and Families. In addition to her clinical practice in grief and loss, Kristine’s areas of emphasis include parent-child relations, child and adolescent social and emotional development, and attachment processes and theory. With Inge Bretherton, she is co-author of a chapter on “Internal Working Models in Attachment Relationships” in Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications.