Grief: Understanding How to Cope With Different Forms of Grief

Grief has much deeper impacts and broader meaning than simply feeling sad when someone is gone. What are the different kinds of grief, and how do they affect people, whether young or old? What are some ways to address grief, and where can you turn for help?

• Diana Stark, coordinator of the Tender Living Care program, Center for Grieving Children
• Carol Schoneberg, bereavement services manager, Hospice of Southern Maine
• Katie Kerr, director of mission services and spiritual care, patient advocate, Mercy Hospital
• Charles Reynolds, endowed professor in geriatric psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

• Maine Hospice Council: Find a hospice
• BDN Blog: Interview: Carol Schoneberg-Robinson, End of Life Educator at Hospice of Southern Maine
• American Psychological Association: Grief: Coping with the loss of your loved one
• Psychology Today: Bereavement
• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: Grief and Children
• Mayo Clinic: Complicated Grief