An Individual's Reactions to Bereavement
Losing someone you love or care for is a painful experience.
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Anniversary Reactions
On the anniversary of a traumatic event, some survivors have an increase in distress.
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Anticipatory Grief
Anticipatory grief is the normal mourning that occurs when a person or a family is expecting a death.
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Behavioral Health During Times of Social Distancing, Quarantine, and Isolation
This article describes feelings and thoughts you may have during and after social distancing, quarantine, and isolation.
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Being Supportive to Someone Who Has Experienced Trauma
When a person experiences trauma, caring and appropriate support from the people around them can help them heal and move forward.
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Canceled by COVID-19: Managing Disappointment
In addition to fear and anxiety, COVID-19 is causing many to struggle with feelings of disappointment.
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Caregiver Grief After a Loved One's Death
The experience of grief after the death of a loved one is almost always painful, but the emotions can be different and sometimes complicated when you have been that person's caregiver.
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Casualty and Death Notifications: Delivery and Follow-Up
Typically, legal authorities make the official death notifications to family members following a traumatic event or disaster.
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Children and Grief: Developmental Stages
Children at different stages of development have different understandings of death and the events near death.
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Choices for Care When Treatment May Not Be an Option
When dealing with a terminal illness, like advanced cancer, patients have different goals for their care, which may change over time.
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Choosing a Funeral Provider and Buying a Cemetery Site
Comparison shopping can help you make informed and thoughtful decisions about funeral and burial arrangements.
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Coping After Terrorism (Part 1)
This information is intended to help you understand reactions to an act of terrorism or mass violence.
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Coping After Terrorism (Part 2)
Many victims of terrorism have walked this long road before you.
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Coping After Trauma: When to Ask for Help
After a traumatic event, problems may come and go. It's important to know when to ask for help.
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Coping with a Traumatic Event
Traumatic events affect survivors, rescue workers, and the friends and relatives of victims who have been involved.
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Coping with Crime Victimization
Anyone can become a victim of a crime. If it happens to you or someone you love, here are some important points to remember.
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Coping with Grief After a Sudden or Unexpected Death
The death of someone close to you is never easy, but it can be even more difficult when it occurs suddenly or unexpectedly.
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Coping with Grief After Community Violence
It is not uncommon for individuals and communities as a whole to experience grief reactions and anger after an incident of community violence.
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Coping with Grief: Life After Loss
The death of a loved one can affect how you feel, how you act, and what you think. Together, these reactions are called grief.
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Coping with the Death of a Student or Staff Member (Part 1)
The sadness and sense of loss that results from the death of someone close can impact significantly a student's social and emotional health as well as his or her ability to learn at school.
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Coping with the Death of a Student or Staff Member (Part 2)
The type of information schools should or should not share or can or cannot provide in the case of death varies based on the specific incident.
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Coping with the Death of a Student or Staff Member (Part 3)
There are two legislative authorities for releasing student information: Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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Coping with the Death of a Student or Staff Member (Part 4)
Students often benefit from the opportunity to talk in small groups with their peers and teachers, or individually, about a death and their own associated reactions and feelings.
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Coworkers Facing Grief Together
The news hits hard: A coworker has died. Maybe you knew the person really well, maybe you didn't, but in either case the news momentarily freezes you, prompting you to consider the fragility of life and the priorities you bring to it.
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Culture and Response to Grief and Mourning
People cope with the loss of a loved one in different ways.
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Dealing with Difficult Emotions
Happiness and joy are wonderful emotions—but they aren't the only ones.
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Dealing with Trauma: Recovering from Frightening Events
Traumatic events affect survivors, rescue workers, and the friends and relatives of victims who have been involved.
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Death of a Parent
When a child's parent has died, it feels like the worst possible thing that could happen has happened. Shock, disbelief, anger, sadness, and guilt are just a few of the things the surviving child may be feeling.
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Disaster Anniversaries and Trigger Events
Learn how anniversaries of disasters and other trigger events may renew symptoms of emotional distress in disaster survivors.
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Emotional Numbness: How to Recognize and Treat It
After a trauma or an extremely stressful event, it's not uncommon to feel emotionally numb.
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Funeral Costs: Services and Products
Funeral costs include basic services fee, charges for other services and merchandise, and cash advances.
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Funeral Planning Tips and Consumer Rights
When a loved one dies, grieving family members and friends often are confronted with dozens of decisions about the funeral. These tips may help.
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Funeral Terms and Contact Information
This article provides a glossary of terms you will encounter when planning a funeral.
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Grief, Bereavement, and Coping with Loss
People cope with the loss of a loved one in different ways.
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Grief, Bereavement, and Coping with Loss: Treatment of Grief
Most bereaved people work through grief and recover within the first six months to two years.
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Grief, Bereavement, and Coping with Loss: Types of Grief Reactions
Anticipatory grief occurs when a death is expected, but can occur before it happens.
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Grieving the Death of an LGBTQ+ Partner
Every person who is grieving the loss of a loved one deserves to have their feelings validated, their love for the deceased person recognized.
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Grieving the Loss of a Parent
When a parent dies, your world changes. You may be an adult now, but all your life you have also been your parent's child.
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Grieving the Loss of an Adult Sibling
The loss of an adult sibling can be deeply felt, sometimes with complicated emotions.
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Guidelines for Student or Staff Sudden Death (Part 1)
Following a traumatic death, people can feel a sense of loss for at least 2 years.
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Guidelines for Student or Staff Sudden Death (Part 2)
Youth suicide will not decrease without community prevention and intervention efforts.
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Guidelines for Student or Staff Sudden Death (Part 3)
Ninety-five percent of youth suicides can be prevented.
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Helping Someone You Love Who Has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
When someone you love has PTSD, it doesn't just affect them. It can also affect you and the other people in their life.
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Helping Your Child Cope with Death
There are healthy ways to teach your child to cope with grief when there is a death in the family.
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How Do You Care for Someone With a Disability, Chronic Illness, or Injury?
Be sure you and the person you care for understand the medical condition and its implications to the fullest extent possible. With the patient's permission, health professionals can have frank conversations with caregivers about treatment.
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How to Deal with Grief
Grief is the normal response of sorrow, emotion, and confusion that comes from losing someone or something important to you.
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How to Listen to Someone Who Is Hurting
Whenever people face bereavement, injury, or other kinds of trauma, they need to talk about it in order to heal. To talk, they need willing listeners.
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How You Can Help Your Grieving Parent
In time, grief will diminish, although it may take a year or longer. One of the best gifts you can give your parent is patience and understanding.
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Individual's Reactions to Death in Service: When a Coworker Dies
The workplace is more than a location where people put in 40 hours and collect a paycheck.
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Individual's Reactions to Traumatic Events
A traumatic event, whether an act of violence or terrorism, a disaster, or an accident, turns a person's life upside down.
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Life After a Job Loss
You're not alone if you've found yourself without a job. Millions of people have involuntarily lost jobs in the last several years.
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Life After a Layoff
Dismissed employees often go through five emotional stages, and you can benefit from understanding these stages and how they might affect you.
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Living with a Chronic Illness: Dealing with Feelings
Learning that you have a long-term (chronic) illness can bring up many different feelings.
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Living with a Chronic Illness: Reaching Out to Others
A chronic illness is a long-term health condition that may not have a cure.
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Maintain a Healthy State of Mind: Adults (Part 1)
In the current climate of tension around terrorist attacks and other disasters, people may often react to such events with increased stress, a sense of uneasiness, and a variety of behavior changes.
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Maintain a Healthy State of Mind: Adults (Part 2)
In the current climate of tension around terrorist attacks and other disasters, people may often react to such events with increased stress, a sense of uneasiness, and a variety of behavior changes.
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Maintain a Healthy State of Mind: High School Students (Part 1)
Disasters like hurricanes, tsunamis, the September 11, 2001, attacks, and school shootings are upsetting.
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Maintain a Healthy State of Mind: High School Students (Part 2)
Disasters like hurricanes, tsunamis, the September 11, 2001, attacks, and school shootings are upsetting.
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Maintain a Healthy State of Mind: Middle School Students
When people watch news reports about natural disasters, terrorist attacks, or school shootings, they may feel confused and scared.
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Maintain a Healthy State of Mind: Parents and Caregivers (Part 1)
Children base their reactions in part on what they see from the adults around them. When parents and caregivers deal with a disaster calmly and confidently, they can provide the best support for their children.
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Maintain a Healthy State of Mind: Parents and Caregivers (Part 2)
Children base their reactions in part on what they see from the adults around them. When parents and caregivers deal with a disaster calmly and confidently, they can provide the best support for their children.
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Maintain a Healthy State of Mind: Seniors (Part 1)
Being mentally and emotionally prepared is the best way to reduce the effects of natural disaster or terrorism.
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Maintain a Healthy State of Mind: Seniors (Part 2)
Being mentally and emotionally prepared is the best way to reduce the effects of natural disaster or terrorism.
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Maintaining Caution During the COVID-19 Pandemic
After months of taking precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic, many have grown weary of the limits placed on activities and the extra steps to take.
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Managing Grief After Disaster (Part 1)
Disasters leave many people suddenly bereaved of spouses, children, parents, close friends, and coworkers.
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Managing Grief After Disaster (Part 2)
When grief goes on longer than is healthy or when it is overwhelming, a diagnosis of traumatic grief might be appropriate.
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Managing Grief After Disaster (Part 3)
Bereavement is a risk factor for a range of mental and physical health problems.
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Managing Grief After Disaster (Part 4)
It goes without saying that the loss of a close relationship permanently affects the bereaved person. It is not reasonable to think that one can recover from such a loss or resolve the loss.
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Managing Grief During the Holidays
The holidays are known as a time of joy and cheer, but for people who have lost someone, this time of the year can be filled with pain and sorrow.
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Managing Stress: Tips for Survivors of a Traumatic Event
It is common to show signs of stress after exposure to a traumatic event.
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Miscarriage and Stillbirth
Few people think about losing a child—but the truth is that pregnancy loss is fairly common.
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Mourning the Death of a Spouse or Domestic Partner: Part 1
When your spouse or domestic partner dies, your world changes. You are in mourning%mdash;feeling grief and sorrow at the loss. You may feel numb, shocked, and fearful.
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Mourning the Death of a Spouse or Domestic Partner: Part 2
After years of being part of a couple, it can be upsetting to be alone. Many people find it helps to have things to do every day. Write down your weekly plans.
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Planning Your Own Funeral
To help relieve their families, an increasing number of people are planning their own funerals.
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Relationships
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects not only the person who has experienced trauma; it can affect their spouse or partner and family as well.
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Preventing Violence After a Natural Disaster (Part 1)
The increased stress associated with disruptions in families; challenges in meeting daily needs such as food, water, and shelter; and disruptions in health and law enforcement services can increase the possibility of violence.
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Preventing Violence After a Natural Disaster (Part 2)
The increased stress associated with disruptions in families; challenges in meeting daily needs such as food, water, and shelter; and disruptions in health and law enforcement services can increase the possibility of violence.
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Processing the Loss of a Family Member by Suicide
When you are made aware that a loved one, a family member, or a close friend has died by suicide, your world may come to a brisk halt.
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Recovering from the Death of a Coworker
The death of a coworker is a painful experience under any circumstance and even more difficult if it was unexpected. Recovery of individuals and of your team itself can be supported by the grief leadership provided by the team's manager.
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Secondary Trauma: When You're Affected by Another Person's Traumatic Experience
It's possible to have stress reactions to a traumatic event without experiencing the event yourself.
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Sharing Your Feelings About Cancer
Talking about your feelings can help you deal with your cancer.
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Suggestions for Speaking with Bereaved Individuals
Supporting bereaved individuals can sometimes be difficult and uncomfortable.
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Surviving Survivor Guilt
One of the many emotions survivors of a tragedy experience that is not much talked about is survivor guilt.
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Talking to Your Kids About Death
It's hard to explain to your kids when a relative or pet dies. It's harder to find the words if you're grieving yourself.
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Tips for Talking to Children and Youth After Traumatic Events
Traumatic events, such as shootings, bombings, or other violent acts, can leave children feeling frightened, confused, and insecure.
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Tips for Talking to Children and Youth After Traumatic Events: A Guide for Parents and Educators
Children respond to traumatic events, such as car crashes or violent acts, in many different ways. Knowing the signs common to different age groups can help parents and teachers recognize problems and respond appropriately.
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Tornadoes and Severe Storms
Tornadoes are outgrowths of powerful thunderstorms that appear as rotating, funnel-shaped clouds.
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Toxic Positivity
Well-meaning messages of positivity may seem like they're helping to lift another person's spirits, but they can do just the opposite.
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Types of Funerals
Every family is different, and not everyone wants the same type of funeral.
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Understanding and Dealing with Racial Trauma
Racial trauma is the cumulative traumatic effect of repeated experiences of racism and discrimination, including exposure to media coverage of acts of racism and race-based violence.
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Unexpected Death and COVID-19
Death is never an easy thing to process, especially when it happens unexpectedly.
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Warning Signs and Risk Factors for Emotional Distress
Learn about the common warning signs and risk factors for emotional distress that children, adults, and first responders often experience.
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What to Do When a Loved One Dies: Part 1
It's something no one really likes to think about, or plan for, but you usually find yourself dealing with it at one time or another. Just what do you do when a loved one dies?
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What to Do When a Loved One Dies: Part 2
It's something no one really likes to think about, or plan for, but you usually find yourself dealing with it at one time or another. Just what do you do when a loved one dies?
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When a Parent Has Cancer: How Teens Can Help Parents
This article offers tips and information on things that other teens have done to help their parent at home. Pick one or two things to try each week.
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When a Parent Has Cancer: Taking Care Of Yourself—Teens
It's important to stay fit%mdash;both inside and out. This article offers tips to help you keep on track during this experience.
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When a Parent Has Cancer: Teens—Finding Support
It may not be easy to reach out for support%mdash;but there are people who can help you. Read on to find out what's worked for other teens.
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When Someone You Love Is Being Treated for Cancer: Adjusting to Being a Caregiver
You may have been an active part of someone's life before cancer, but perhaps now the way you support that person is different.
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When Someone You Love Is Being Treated for Cancer: Part 1—Caring for Yourself
You may feel that your needs aren't important right now. But caring for your own needs, hopes, and desires is important to give you the strength to carry on.
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When Someone You Love Is Being Treated for Cancer: Part 2—Caring for Yourself
You may find yourself so busy and concerned about your loved one that you don't pay attention to your own physical health.
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When You and Your Parent Are Grieving
It is never easy to console someone whose spouse has died, but it can be especially challenging when the deceased is your parent. How can you comfort your surviving parent while dealing with your own loss?
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You're Safer, They're Not: Coping with Separation and Guilt in a Crisis
In a crisis such as an armed conflict or a natural disaster, families can be separated when some members move to safety while others remain behind.
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