Grief Counseling

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This paper addresses the phenomenon of the increased necessity of grief counselors in modern society. It explains that with the reality of large-scale disasters ever present, methods have been developed for large-scale grief counseling to help the survivors cope with what has happened and to help them recover as much as possible. This paper looks at the process a grief counselor goes through with a family member and how this process needs to be adjusted according to the different tragedies which occur.

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"Grief counseling methods have been developed in a clinical setting from experience with family members of those who die after long-term care. Bereavement is defined as the state of having experienced the death of a significant other, and nurses have learned that the stress of prolonged bereavement has persistent and cumulative negative effects on the psychosocial functioning of family members, even when coping abilities emerge early in the process (Warren, 1997, 42). Different programs have been developed to enable health care professionals to deal with these issues. The Allegheny General Hospital Trauma Bereavement Program suggests the importance of specialized follow-up care for surviving family members and loved ones during the year after a death. It is noted that sudden, traumatic death leaves the survivors in shocked disbelief and intense emotional pain, but that appropriate support and intervention can make a significant contribution to a family's eventual recovery by assisting in the normal grieving process and thus avoiding prolonged, pathologic grieving (Buchanan, Geubtner, & Snyder, 1996, 35)."

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