Occupational Therapists' Emerging Role in Running Bereavement Support Groups.
Grief is well recognized as a stress response and, as such, significantly impacts engagement in meaningful occupational performance and engagement in meaningful occupations. Prolonged grief disorder (PGD), a newly recognized diagnosis, reflects the public health risk for the bereaved. Multiple clien...
| Publicado en: | Open Journal of Occupational Therapy (OJOT) Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 1 - 8 |
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Open Journal of Occupational Therapy
Summer2026
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| Sumario: | Grief is well recognized as a stress response and, as such, significantly impacts engagement in meaningful occupational performance and engagement in meaningful occupations. Prolonged grief disorder (PGD), a newly recognized diagnosis, reflects the public health risk for the bereaved. Multiple client factors and performance patterns of those experiencing grief disrupt multiple areas of occupation. This opinion paper evaluates occupational therapy's role in bereavement groups in the occupational therapy scope of practice. |
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