U17- UvY- Grief Counseling

Grief counseling is a sort of psychotherapy that purposes to help people cope with grief and grieving coming after the death of loved ones, or with major life alterations that trigger feelings of grief (e.g., divorce).
Grief counselors feel that everyone experiences and expresses grief in their own way, often shaped by culture. They believe it is not uncommon for a person to withdraw from their friends and family and feel incapacitated ; some might be angry and want to take action. Some may laugh.

Grief counseling is needed when a person is so impaired by their grief, whelmed by loss to the extent that their common coping procedures are handicapped or shut down.  Grief counseling facilitates expression of emotion and thought about the loss, including sadness, anxiety, anger, loneliness, guilt, relief, isolation, confusion, or numbness.

Grief counselors hold that one can anticipate vast range scope of emotion and behavior affiliated with grief. Some counselors believe that in all places and cultures, the grieving person benefits from the support of others. (1) Further, grief counselors believe where such reinforcement is missing, counseling may provide an avenue for healthy resolution. Grief counselors believe that grief is a procedure the goal of which is "resolution." The field further thinks that where the process of grieving is interrupted, for example, by at the same time having to deal with practical issues of survival of the fittest or by being the potent one and keeping a family together, grief can remain unresolved and later resurface as an issue for counseling.