title: Helping relatives cope with the grieving process.
abstract: Grief may be a natural reaction to loss, felt by those most affected, within their own cultural context. Stage-theory approaches to grief may encourage people to think of grief in a simplistic or inflexible way. It is important to allow patients to make their own responses and to express their feelings.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D006117:Grief; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000523:psychology*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations