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This booklet is for anyone affected by loss. If you are grieving, the first two sections are especially for you. If you are a manager, understanding these sections, as well as the specific advice for you that follows, will help … Continue reading →

Unaddressed grief costs not only businesses, but also the healthcare system at large. Grief reduces productivity due to absenteeism, mistakes, turnover and increased use of health benefits. As reported by the Wall Street Journal in November 2002, the annual cost … Continue reading →

Grief is experienced whenever you lose something important to you. Grief is so powerful that people sometimes look for ways to go around it rather than experience it. This approach will not work. The best thing you can do for … Continue reading →

Grief is experienced whenever you lose something important to you. Grief is so powerful that people sometimes look for ways to go around it rather than experience it. This approach will not work. The best thing you can do for … Continue reading →

By Helen Fitzgerald, CT There is no bond greater than the bond between parent and child. When a child dies, the pain of parental loss is near the top of the scale of human grief, and there is an immediate … Continue reading →

By Helen Fitzgerald, CT Grief is experienced whenever you lose something important to you. Grief is so powerful that people sometimes look for ways to go around it rather than experience it. This approach will not work. The best thing … Continue reading →

By Sandra Howlett, Ed. D As a nurse, you are the front line caregiver and as such, often bear the brunt of the angst, frustration, worry and fear from patients and their families. You carry tremendous responsibility. In addition to … Continue reading →

By Helen Fitzgerald, CT After a death in the family, the time comes when grieving family members begin to re-enter the routines of everyday life. Out-of-town relatives return home. Children go back to school and grieving adults must get back … Continue reading →

By Helen Fitzgerald, CT Introduction With heart disease on the rise in this country, it is not surprising that fatal heart attacks occur in the workplace. Other deaths — from accidents, for example — can also happen during working hours. … Continue reading →

American Hospice Foundation created a model Grief at School training curriculum that has been used by more than 3,500 schools and was endorsed by the national associations of school counselors, school psychologists and social workers. As part of their community … Continue reading →