Psychotherapy for Grief and Bereavement: Techniques and Approaches

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Psychotherapy can be described as the form of treatment that helps in enhancing the
recovery of the person from the feeling of sense and this intervention is in use for quite time
now. This system has been in use even before the symptoms like traumatic grief, prolonged grief
disorder, complicated bereavement as well as other symptoms was considered to be important for
ensuring developed mental and emotional health (Dunphy& Schniering, 2009). From that time
onwards, several researchers have come up with innovative methods that help patients in
overcoming their feelings of grief and bereavement.
The main responsibility of the grief counselors is to assisting patients who are
going through phases of bereavement and thereby help them to orient themselves after the death
or loss of near and dear ones. Moreover, they are also seen to help people in coping with
situations and orienting themselves in the phase of grieving along with easy transition through
the phase of grief. These roles and responsibilities have made the grief counselors to become an
active member of the healthcare teams attending to depression and other emotional turmoil faced
by patients besides their physical challenges.
It has been found that seasoned counselors show distinct difference in their
approaches than the new counselors as they are able to help the clients in adopting themselves in
the direction of meeting the demands of their lives. Studies have found out different techniques
that are applied by grief counselors when they need to handle various kinds of patient cases who
are suffering from intense grief and depression. One of the techniques is psycho education. Great