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The loss I am referring to may be through death, divorce or abandonment. The manifestations of grief symptoms in children are not always the same as those in adults. And often children become forgo...

I have just taken a week off for a staycation. I am not sure if this is an accepted word in Scrabble but it can be found in The Oxford English Dictionary. Basically, it means “a holiday spent in ...

  Psychotherapist-cum-grief therapist Dr Edmund Ng gave a talk entitled "Beyond Grief: A Guide for Recovering From The Loss of A Loved One" at Menara Star on Aug 6.    ...

When we have lost a loved one, the festive holidays are often a time we would rather skip as so many things will remind us that someone is missing and that, in turn, hurts. We may feel like just going...

If the patient whom we care for dies unexpectedly, we are devastated. Openly discussing the possibility of death is less emotionally difficult when the critically sick person is still able to talk abo...

When we reach out to bereaved parents, we must not neglect their children. Bereaved children also mourn and they need our attention to help them work through their grief. Infants of less than two y...

Bereavement refers to the loss of a loved one while grief is our reaction to that loss. Grief is intense anguish or acute sorrow which can be so painful that the grieving person often looks for ways t...

The tension is palpable in the lift that Datuk Freddy Chan and I share with a grief-stricken Chinese family at the Nirvana Memorial Center in Sungai Besi, in Kuala Lumpur. The household head – a mi...

Spouses who have lost their partners are widows and widowers. Children who have lost their parents are orphans. But there is no term to describe a parent who has lost a child. Locally, some of thos...

No one, in any culture, likes to talk about death, let alone the fact that it’s an inescapable reality for all of us. In the west, there’s an obsession with youth, vitality and beauty – the ide...