Loss is a universal experience. No problem encountered in psychotherapy fails to contain significant elements of loss--whether physical or psychosocial. Therefore, knowing how to help clients grieve and mourn a loss is one of the most important areas of competence for the therapist to develop. This workshop will focus on what therapists can do to promote healthy mourning. We'll analyze the three basic types of loss, using the death of a loved one as an example. We'll then review the critically important distinctions between grief and mourning, examine acute grief as a form of traumatic stress reaction, and identify the six processes of mourning necessary to resolve a major loss.