What is Emotional Hazards

Among the inevitable traumatic hazards that people encounter is death of a loved one. A notable reaction to such loss is grief. Individuals in grief could develop a crisis and suddenly start to function with diminished capacity. While some individuals navigate their grieving phase with minimal damage and return to functionality, others lack the requisite resources to manage the phase, leading them to crisis. This latter group needs counsellors to assist them navigate the phase and return to pre-crisis functionality. This chapter provides two-way effective grief and trauma counselling therapies. To social supports, it provides empathic listening, tolerating awkward responses from the bereaved, and observing a task that needs to be done and do it vicariously, etc. To the bereaved, it offers cognitive restructuring, self-monitoring of thoughts and recording, increasing help-seeking behaviours, Premack principle, time out, self-compassion, bibliotherapy, and reinforcement, among other therapies, to manage grief and trauma during bereavement.