Grief, Pathological Grief, & Rehabilitation Counseling

Abstract

Rehabilitation counselors may encounter clients who are struggling with previously unresolved grief reactions to death and to losses associated with disability. These reactions may impede any potential therapeutic progress for such persons. The symptoms characterizing normal and pathological grief may be multiple and varied. Clues for the differential identification of these two grieving patterns are described, implications for practice are made, and resources for referral are suggested.