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Understanding the grief process: A first step to helping bereaved clients

Grief is a normal and natural response to any significant loss, especially the death of a loved one or close friend. The grieving process is, however, often misunderstood and/or neglected by both the bereaved and professional helpers. Counselors and family therapists need a framework for understanding the grief process to guide their interventions. The purpose of this article is to describe a framework based on the work of Thresese Rando, a noted grief therapist.

Many of the concerns individuals bring to counseling involve the loss of some thing or some person of value. Tatelbaum (1984) noted that "the majority of clients come. . . for the first time because of an earlier grief that is now ...

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