Grief in the Middle Years: Helping Clients with Mid Life Losses

In this course Prof. Brandon Hunt, Ph.D., Georgia Southern University, differentiates between loss, grief, bereavement, and mourning. Delimiting her focus to grief and loss in mid-life (defined as between ages 40 and 70), Hunt examines grief responses at physical, emotional, behavioural, cognitive, and spiritual levels, and explains how – with both death-related and non-death-related losses – primary losses can engender secondary ones. Hunt discusses two grief models, and lists the interventions and strategies that can help counsellors to help their grieving clients.