
Cause and Effect When Addressing Grief: Through the Filter of Religiousness and Religiosity - Part O
In my clinical experience, most people who ask for psychotherapy have a history of personal loss or they struggle with working through a recent loss. While the death of a loved one is the main motivation to look for help, there are other losses that also produce grief, such as an unexpected divorce, loss of a valued job, or the onset of physical disability, to name a few. Grief work in psychotherapy attempts to address and treat an effect from one or several particular caus