Grief therapy

>Develop the ability to experience, express, and adjust to painful grief-related changes.

>Find effective ways to cope with painful changes.

>Establish a continuing relationship with the person who died.

>Stay healthy and keep functioning.

>Re-establish relationships and understand that others may have difficulty empathizing with the grief they experience.

>Develop a healthy image of oneself and the world.

Complications in grief may come about due to uncompleted grief from earlier losses.

The grief for these earlier losses must be managed in order to handle the current grief.

Grief therapy includes dealing with the blockages to the mourning process, identifying unfinished business with the deceased, and identifying other losses that result from the death.

The bereaved is helped to see that the loss is final and to picture life after the grief period.

</LI></UL> Grief therapy may be available as individual or group therapy.

A contract is set up with the individual that establishes the time limit of the therapy, the fees, the goals, and the focus of the therapy.