A challenging concern of grief-crisis intervention is providing appropriate emotional and educational support immediately after a sudden violent death. Research suggests that coping after this type of loss is laborious for the entire family, including children, adolescents, and adults. The survivor's grief response is intense with a prolonged trauma. The consensus of the research indicates that grief-crisis intervention helps the survivors to want to go on living in the face of disaster and positively affects their ability to cope.
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