bereavement support
Help through loss
Bereavement support is assistance offered to people grieving the death of someone close to them.
It encompasses counseling, support groups, and practical help during mourning: The hospice provides bereavement support for families, She found bereavement support through her church.
The term appears frequently in healthcare, funeral services, and workplace policies regarding time off after a death.
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- funeral planningOrganizing services after death
- funeral homeFacility for death services
- mourningPeriod following loss
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
sorrow · grief counselor · hospice care · final goodbye · coping · healing process · empathy · mental health services · community · crisis intervention · spiritual guidance · peer groups · safe space · group therapy · religious leaders · rituals · resilience · outreach programs
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- Catholic ministrycatechists, evangelization, religious education, RCIA, youth ministry
- grief supportgrief counseling, grief counselor, grief therapy, consolation, mourning
- UK Benefitshousing benefit, child benefit, child tax credit, state pension, DWP
- pastoral carepastoral counseling, spiritual counseling, church counseling, religious counseling, spiritual care
- elder ministryvisitation, home visits, sick visits, hospice visits, spiritual care
bereavement supportanniversary celebration
Event honoring a recurring date
wedding planning · welcome home party · retirement celebration
bereavement supportabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
neglect · emotional withdrawal · isolation · indifference · cruelty