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When grief counseling conflicts with your cultural understanding of death

The grief counselor says I should be moving through stages but my people believe the dead stay with you and I am not trying to get over anything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Linear models of bereavement cannot accommodate traditions where death is relational rather than terminal.

Ideas that help explain it
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