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# 032 Grief and Bereavement, 2nd ed

Source: 
Medical College of Wisconsin (EPERC)
Synopsis: 

Introduction:  Grief is a normal response to loss, any loss: a job, a limb, a life. Clinicians have an important role in facilitating healthy grieving, and observing for signs of complicated grief. Grief experienced by dying patients and loved-ones prior to and in anticipation of death is called anticipatory grief (or mourning); grief of loved-ones following a death is termed bereavement. This Fast Fact provides an overview of grief and bereavement.

Vol/Page/Date: 
August 2005; 32.
Resource Type: 
Other
Author/Source: 
James Hallenbeck MD
keywords: 
Psychosocial and Spiritual Experience: Patients, Families, and Clinicians
Submitter: 
Peters
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