New therapy aims to ease grief and PTSD for families of ICU patients

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients who, during their hospital stay, have been admitted to the ICU and are near EoL, as indicated by a modified "surprise question" whereby physicians are asked to identify patients whom they do not expect to survive the next 12 months. * Surrogate decision-makers of patients who were admitted to the ICU or step-down unit during their current admission/stay, or within 1 month of discharge from their last admission/stay. * Surrogate decision-makers are 18 years or older. * Surrogate decision-makers whom physicians or advance practice providers (i.e. physician assistants, nurse practitioners) indicate as the designated health care proxy or decision-making patient surrogates, or who are listed as such in the patient's medical charts or by self-report of the surrogate. * Surrogate decision-makers must speak English. * Surrogate decision-makers must report "syndromal" levels of pre-loss grief (PG-12 score ≥ 25) or peritraumatic distress (PDI ≥ 23). * Surrogate decision makers will need to reside in a state in which an interventionist is licensed or otherwise be able to comply with current telehealth regulations. * Surrogate decision-makers will need to be willing to utilize a device (computer, tablet, phone) with internet. * Surrogate decision-makers who are able and willing to provide an emergency contact. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients and surrogate decision-makers who do not meet the eligibility criteria. * Surrogate decision-makers who indicate the presence of cognitive impairment based on responses to the Ultra-Brief Confusion Assessment Method and/or significant psychiatric or cognitive disturbance sufficient, in the investigator/study staff's judgment, to preclude completion of the assessment measures, interview or informed consent. * Surrogate-decision makers who endorse suicidal ideation in the past month based on responses to the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale. * Surrogate-decision makers who are unable to access a functional device for videoconferencing and decline the offer to use a study loner device.