How Many People Take Advantage Of Bereavement Or Grief Counseling?
Question submitted May 6, 2002: How many people attend therapy for death/grief counseling? CyberShrink’s answer posted 5-6-02: We don’t know of any way to estimate the total number of people who enter therapy for bereavement or grief counseling in any given period of time. There is no agency that attempts to collect that and related statistics. However, it’s probably reasonable to assume that fewer people seek such counseling than the number of people who could benefit from such counseling. The death of someone to whom one is deeply attached, the loss of a limb or ability to function in an accustomed way, being involved in, or being a witness to, natural disasters, mass accidents, and acts of terror resulting in deaths, are profound losses that can have emotionally traumatic effects. Many people are not able to accept or cope with such losses and, not infrequently, there is a delayed reaction to such losses. Bereavement and grief counseling, crisis counseling, and therapies designed to
