• Understanding Grief

Understanding Grief

Grief is an experience - not a mental disorder. Join the movement and learn how you can get a better understanding of grief! 

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We've partnered with The Dougy Center, and dozens of other organizations like us, in the movement to Understand Grief. This campaign is a message of understanding and hope intended to help people who are grieving, and those supporting them. Our goal is to raise awareness of what grief truly is - a natural, normal, and health response to loss.  

Ico Resource 1
Becoming Grief-Informed: A Call to Action

This position paper, written by Donna L. Schuurman, EdD, FT and Monique B. Mitchell, PhD, FT, discusses and challenges what grief means in "mainstream" American society; medicalizing and pathologizing grief; lack of grief education/training; and core principles of grief-informed practice.

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Ico Resource 2
Being Grief-Informed: From Understanding to Action

Quick summary of the full position paper and tip sheet with 10 Core Principles and Action Steps.

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Additional Resources

Visit The Dougy Center website for additional resources, social media images, and ways you can help spread awareness of what it means to be grief-informed.

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