Issues and implications in the counseling of survivors of multiple aids-related loss
- 1 July 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Death Studies
- Vol. 20 (4) , 389-413
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07481189608252789
Abstract
Survivors of multiple AIDS-related loss face a unique phenomenon for which existing theories and diagnostic criteria regarding grief and trauma are inadequate. Unresolved grief and complicated bereavement are normal responses to multiple loss. This distinctive experience and the resulting symptoms have implications for counselors. Suggestions are offered for counselors to help clients process the aggregate and individual losses arising from this experience. AIDS provides a rare opportunity to analyze concurrent traumatization and complicated bereavement occurring on an ongoing basis. This analysis and its implications may therefore be useful in the future in regard to tragedies that share these characteristics.Keywords
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