Grief/Loss Unresolved (Bereavement Counseling)

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1. Loss if contact with a parent due to the parent’s death.

2. Loss of contact with a parent figure due to termination of parental rights. 

3. Loss of contact with a parent due to the parent’s incarceration.

4. Loss of contact with a positive support network due to a geographic move. 

5. Loss of meaningful contact with a parent figure due to the parent’s emotional abandonment. 

6. Strong emotional response experienced when the loss is mentioned. 

7. Lack of appetite, nightmares, restlessness, inability to concentrate, irritability, tearfulness, or social withdrawal that began subsequent to a loss.

8. Marked drop in school grades, and an increase in angry outbursts, hyperactivity, or clinginess when separating from parents.

9. Feelings of guilt associated with the unreasonable belief in having done something to cause the loss or not having prevented it. 

Avoidance of talking at length or in any depth about the loss.