# How to deal with Grief and Loss #grief #loss #emotions related to #death #bereavement dying **- Loss is connected to meaning / attachment to the object/person (relationship).** Grief and Loss is a common thread that many clients struggle with. Usually associated with bereavement. But Losses can include infertility, divorce, separation, death, job loss, retirement, illness, relocation, new home, new country, aging process. - Grief can be tangible, intangible. Not all griefs are acknowledged socially. - From the moment we are born, we are exposed to different grief and losses, as we move through various stages of life, we transit and adjusted. Grief and loss are common human experience. - Making sense - Finding meaning.  -  - How do you observe grief?  - How does grief impact the sense of self, relationships and belief systems?  - What is the grieving process?  - What are the counseling implication when client response by: - Shock - Emotional - Isolation - Physical symptoms.  - Anger - Reaching Out (Appear to be happy/OK outwardly) - Panic - Guilt - Adaptation (Re-entering life.  - How is grief & loss relate to Attachment theory?  - What is the most important counselors can do when counseling person with loss?  - How can you use PADI in this grief counseling?  - Remember, what do we privilege (more thinking/talking vs doing).   - Different way to grief. How does family members see each other way of grieving?  - Anger - usually hide a secondary emotion - Sadness, Unfairness, Hurt, Fear  - Don't assume client's intention, check and ask. - Sometimes presented issues is not Grief, but e.g artist cannot draw, but underneath may surface grief issues. [[What Exercises for Grief Work?]] [[Solution Focus on Grief]] [[Narrative Approach on Grief]]