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Research suggests that music therapy can help support people before and after a loved one’s death.
There are many social assumptions about how to best ‘get through’ grief. We interview 95 people about their experiences of loss and found we need to rethink what grief looks and feels like.
Mourning the loss of a loved one before they die is known as anticipatory grief. It’s a distressing state but can be managed, as two experts explain.
Haigh’s ghostly, dream-like setting offers a powerful remedy for an ageing generation of gay men coming to terms with the grief that pervaded their young lives.
A trauma-informed therapist discusses how grief affects the brain and highlights the role of a sixth stage of grief – finding meaning – in the healing process.
News about the growing ecological crisis may cause people to feel grief and fear. It is understandable to seek relief from these feelings and look for good news. But what if grief is the good news?
The death of Matthew Perry has seen old and new fans reflect on the legacy of a television classic.
Children experience grief much more commonly than most of us think. This is what they want to know.
A celebrated poet and Nobel laureate, Louise Glück wrote about mortality, broken families and human frailty with devastating wryness and quiet beauty.
One night, someone cut down a tree. It wasn’t just any tree. The loss of the Sycamore Gap tree sent a nation into grief. But why?
As we age, it can be hard to fathom the gap between our younger selves and the bodies we inhabit. Carol Lefevre explores this strange form of homesickness.
Gender plays a major role in how mourning is done by the Akan ethnic group of Ghana
New memoirs by Rachel Louise Snyder and Steph Lentz chart the territory of being shaped by an ill-fitting version of strict Christianity – and their struggle to free themselves.
Animal shelters and other organizations that support pets and their owners after disasters will still need help months after the media has moved on.
Grief is a natural response to loss, but if it significantly affects your ability to function, it may be time to seek professional help.
No matter their age, gender, ethnicity or locale, kids undergoing this therapy can make real progress in recovering from the most devastating traumas.
Letting go of what could have been is a critical step in handling ambiguous loss.
When an attack affects a whole city the grief members of the community feel is complex.
End-of-life storytelling is the process of telling stories and documenting death and dying – and many people find it confronting on a medium like TikTok.
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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Professor of Social Work, CQUniversity Australia
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Honorary Research Fellow, Director of Bereavement Services Counselling & Mental Health Clinic, York St John University
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Lecturer in Sociology, Deputy Director of the Centre for Ageing and the Life Course, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Psychology, Curtin University
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Professor, Social Work, University of Waterloo
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
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Lecturer, The Cairnmillar Institute Melbourne, La Trobe University
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PhD Candidate, Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Sociology, Drake University
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Personal Chair, Literary Studies, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Lakehead University
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Dean's Professor of Sociology and Professor of Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Counseling Psychologist, Catholic University of Eastern Africa