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Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast050: The Process of Grief with Maris Loeffler, LMFTGrief is the multifaceted response—emotional, behavioral, social—to a loss or major life adjustment (like a divorce, loss of a job, etc.). Bereavement is the process of grieving specific to the loss of affection or bond to a person or animal (Parkes & Prigerson, 2013; Shear, Ghesquiere & Glickman, 2013; Shear, 2015). Some of the signs and symptoms of grief are: -somatic symptoms (e.g. choking or tightness in the throat, abdominal pain or feeling of emptiness, chest pain) -physiological changes (e.g. increased heart rate and blood pressure, increased cortisol levels) -sleep disruption and chan...2019-07-0437 min