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BEREAVEMENT

 PRACTICE POINTS

Counsel may need to question and explore for undiagnosed grief reactions in family members

Care-givers often fail to make the causal connection between a wide range of symptoms and traumatic bereavement

Disorders following violent bereavement:

1. Acute Stress (ASD)
2. Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD)
3. Depressive
4. Anxiety
5. Dissociative
6. Eating
7. Drug and Alcohol Abuse

“Thin Skull” for complicated bereavement response: 

1. Family conflict
2. Child/parent psychiatric disorders
3. Prior exposure to trauma
4. Single parent family

Adverse features of disaster: 

1. Lack of warning

2. Unpredictable duration

3. Night-time

4. Man-made vs. natural