Counselling intended to assist people who have been bereaved in coping with their grief.
through grief counselling, they discover that a sudden, strong desire for a baby might be an unconscious way to cope with loss
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With the lukewarm at-best reception that production received, it looked as if grief counselling might be in order.
In some cases the grief is so severe that it is our responsibility to direct these people to professional grief counselling and help.
But it's also depressing that in a recession, techniques created for humanitarian purposes such as "grief counselling" and victim support are used instead to squeeze money out of the poor and the bereaved.
We cooked them pasta and made them beds and in the evenings that would follow listened to Bea as she arrived home after a traumatic day of grief counselling.
Many parents are given grief counselling.
It keeps me happy - and, anyway, I'm not the one rushing out in search of grief counselling.
When grief counselling became very popular, a lot of that was taking the line that what you had to do was do your grief work and move on.
This was not the type of grief counselling that I was taught when I trained as a Drug and Alcohol Dependency Counsellor and Community Health Nurse many years ago - but I can assure you that it works much more effectively!
Officials suspended operations and were providing grief counselling for the 270 workers at the plant.
If you do survive there is no stress or grief counselling.
He added he would ensure that pupils were offered grief counselling.
He said grief counselling was being offered.
A new centre where families could report loved ones missing and receive grief counselling also got into action after the first building became too small.
"She went to grief counselling, but never got over his death," a resident in the closely-knit estate said.
Derivatives
grief counsellor
noun
A person trained to assist people who have been bereaved in coping with their grief.
Patrick's widow started sessions with a grief counsellor
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Jennifer mentions a grief counsellor from Queensland, who happened to be in Bali on holidays and is helping with identification of victims.
The mother had been told by a grief counsellor that instead of seeing the body that maybe she should go out to the site and say goodbye to Mark.
In 2002 he married Katherine, who had been his grief counsellor.