Related News ItemsArticle on Understanding of Adolescent Bereavement Shows How Adults Can Help Bereaved Youth Successfully Navigate ...Mon, 21 May 2012 00:15:36 -0700
Many youth become bereaved due to a death of someone close to them during adolescence. It is important for counselors and others working with young people to understand how grieving youth respond to the loss of a loved one. David Balk, Ph.D., describes how the grieving process impacts adolescent development and how adolescent development impacts the grieving process in a free article in The ...
Read More... Froma Harrop: Grief painful but precious - Sat, 19 May 2012 PSTSat, 19 May 2012 00:29:22 -0700
We moderns seem determined to suppress all unhappiness with one exception: grief. The intense sadness following loss of a loved one still occupies a warm spot in our culture. We want that pain protected from the deadening analgesics of pharmaceuticals. That explains the American Psychiatric Association’s decision to retreat from a plan to categorize ordinary grief as an adjustment disorder. Some ...
Read More... Don't 'medicalize' our precious gift of griefFri, 18 May 2012 20:40:04 -0700
The American Psychiatric Association has thankfully retreated from a plan to categorize ordinary grief as an adjustment disorder, writes Froma Harrop. The last thing we need is to "medicalize" grief.
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