title: Management of acute grief.
abstract: Family physicians must often help patients through the grief process. Acute grief may occur with the loss of a loved one or with the loss of physical health. Normal grief has well-defined stages, which help distinguish it from pathologic grief reactions. Familiarity with the grief process allows the physician to intervene when necessary and to facilitate the normal sequence of grieving which, if thwarted, has serious ramifications.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000786:Anger; D003643:Death; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D004358:Drug Therapy; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D009017:Morbidity; D012944:Social Support; D013997:Time Factors