Treatment of grief: Exploration and perspectives

Abstract

The mourning is the emotional reaction because of a death. These reactions are universals; affect at the different dimensions of the individual and usually to be expressed in a diverse way depends on the culture where it is developed. The complication of the process of the mourning entails a series of clinic manifestations that damage and endanger the physic and emotional health of the people and thus, require to be attended for specialist professionals that can give relief his consequent suffering. In the last decades have been inverted a lot of energies on the description for which criterions help us to differentiate the normative mourning than the difficulties of itself. It has been proposed, after the evidences found in the investigations realized, a clinic entity typical from the symptoms more complex, diversified of other psychological disorders. From here it could be spoken in a communal language to define and evaluate it, facilitating the development of studies and outcomes applicable subsequent to the clinic field. According to the treatment of the mourning, in the scientific literature displays a big number of studies that address this problematic from the different psychological orientations, from where support his procedures and offer directions and lines of intervention helping to give comfort the magnitude of this experience. However, the different revisions realized to value the answers of the strategies and techniques have been used, have not showed concluding results through which type of intervention could be more effective. This article compiles the recent discoveries have been developed in this sphere and offers an approach of the procedures and studies which show the best results.