Two Cases of Grief Counseling : From Children's Deaths Caused by the Train Accident and the Suicide

On this report, we shall discuss two clients' experiences of being deeply deprived in due to the unexpected deaths of their own children ; one is the loss by the car accident and the other is by the child's suicide. This report also includes each progress of the grief counseling for those two clients. In general, "the loss of own child" causes various pathological and psychological disorders ; such affections sometimes break up well ordered relationships between the client and the rest of family members. As a result, the biggest challenge for the counselors is to find a way of supporting their clients who have intense feeling of being excluded, and clients often refer such feeling as "the particular kind of feeling which is only known to people with the actual experiences". For those two clients, we have carried out our counsels for about two years, and the counsels have being completed by the time we have acknowledged clients' psychological stabilities. Although we have not yet obtained enough evidences to conclude "Being Independent and the Level of the Reintegration" (Fig 1. Hirayama, 1998), we have had opportunities to provide not only our counseling supports but introducing those two clients to each other. In due to such promising opportunities, we may now conclude that those meetings of two deeply anguished clients have being a definite factor of closing our counsels with a right direction. On those counsels, our report includes discussions based upon three points of view : the process of being grieved with their actual contents, the suffer of clients as a result of children's deaths, and the grief counseling