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Grief & Bereavement

Here you will find academic articles and resources to help those who have been affected by grief.

Reminiscence Therapy

Reminiscence Therapy vs. Life Review Therapy: A Quick Guide

Remembering is a powerful skill. It has the potential to help us revisit the positive emotions of our past, while improving our connections with ourselves [...]

Breakup therapy

Breakup Therapy: How to Help Clients Cope With Grief

Everyone who has experienced love has, most likely, faced a painful breakup. Ongoing research is beginning to recognize that the feelings associated with losing a [...]

Complicated Grief Therapy

How to Treat Complicated Grief in Therapy: 12 Examples

Each grief experience is unique, yet we share the need to have it witnessed without someone attempting to lessen it or find ways to reframe [...]

Types of grief

13 Types of Grief + How to Treat Loss in Therapy

Every day, millions of people are affected by the loss of a loved one. They remember the precise time, location, and what they were doing [...]

Maranasati meditation

Maranasati Meditation: How to Practice Mindfulness of Death

Maranasati meditation refers to several early Buddhist practices focused on mindfulness of death (Access to Insight, 2013a, 2013b). The objective of mindfulness of death practices [...]

Hope therapy

How to Perform Hope Therapy: 4 Best Techniques

In everyday language, the word hope can suggest unrealistic, wishful thinking. For positive psychologists, hope refers to a positive state of mind, one in which [...]

Grief Books

9 Grief Books, Worksheets, & Journal Prompts to Help Clients

Grief is an experience that does not discriminate. At some point, everyone will lose a loved one. However, no one really talks about it. Even [...]

Grief stages

The Psychology of Grief: The 4 Stages Explained

Grief is characterized by a contradiction. On one hand, it is a complex and painful maelstrom of thoughts and emotions triggered by the loss of [...]

Grief for children

Helping Kids Cope With Grief: 6+ Tips to Support Children

Losing a loved one is never easy. For children, losing someone they love can be even more difficult because they are not only trying to [...]

ACT Model

What Is ACT? The Hexaflex Model and Principles Explained

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a third-wave Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that can be a breath of fresh air for coaches and therapists. Third-wave CBT [...]