Grief and Loss

Grief can be defined as the “emotion, generated by an experience of loss and characterized by sorrow and/or distress and the personal and interpersonal experience of loss” (Humphrey, 2009, p.5). Grieving after a significant loss, the death of a loved one or other loss, is a normative process. Most people proceed through this process with help of family, friends, community support, or alone without complications. However, a significant minority of people develop complications in this process.