{"id":219,"date":"2004-01-27T10:34:31","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T18:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/01\/27\/bereavement-counseling\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:17:15","slug":"bereavement-counseling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/01\/27\/bereavement-counseling\/","title":{"rendered":"Bereavement Counseling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the NY Times article, <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/mem\/tnt.html?tntget=2004\/01\/27\/health\/psychology\/27BROD.html&#038;tntemail1=&#038;pagewanted=all&#038;position=\">Often, Time Beats Therapy for Treating Grief<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA major new &#8220;Report on Bereavement and Grief Research&#8221; prepared by the Center for the Advancement of Health concluded, &#8220;A growing body of evidence indicates that interventions with adults who are not experiencing complicated grief cannot be regarded as beneficial in terms of diminishing grief-related symptoms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report adds that there is very little evidence for the effectiveness of interventions like crisis teams that visit family members within hours of a loss, self-help groups that seek to foster friendships, efforts to show the bereaved ways to work through grief and a host of other therapeutic approaches believed to help the bereaved.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the studies indicate, grief counseling may sometimes make matters worse for those who lost people they loved, regardless of whether the death was traumatic or occurred after a long illness, according to Dr. John Jordan, director of the Family Loss Project in the Boston area. Such people may include the only man in a group of women, a young person in a group of older people, or someone recently bereaved in a group that includes a person still suffering intensely a year or more after the loved one&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the research suggests, bereavement counseling is least needed in the immediate aftermath of a loss. Yet it is then that most grieving people are invited to take part in the offered services. A more appropriate time is 6 to 18 months later, if the person is still suffering intensely.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NY Times article, Often, Time Beats Therapy for Treating Grief: A major new &#8220;Report on Bereavement and Grief Research&#8221; prepared by the Center for the Advancement of Health concluded, &#8220;A growing body of evidence indicates that interventions with adults who are not experiencing complicated grief cannot be regarded as beneficial in terms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13113,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/13113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}