Strategies for health care providers to help individuals experiencing grief and loss due to spinal cord injury (SCI): A qualitative study.

Conclusions: Providers identified strategies to facilitate holistic patient-centered grief care that included open communication, empathy, trust, and normalizing the grief experience, where appropriate. Providers believed that regular screenings for feelings of grief and loss are necessary to know where individuals with SCI are at in the grief process and what they need. Ideal grief care would benefit from coordinated care, support services, and patient education. These findings offer steps to guide health provider’s approach to addressing grief and loss due to injury among individuals with SCI. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research