grief counselling [ grief counseling | bereavement counselling | bereavement counseling ]

accompanying people | travel with people | accompany people | escort people

Definition: States of subjective distress and emotional disturbance, usually interfering with social functioning and performance, arising in the period of adaptation to a significant life change or a stressful life event. The stressor may have affected the integrity of an individual's social network (bereavement, separation experiences) or the wider system of social supports and values (migration, refugee status), or represented a major developmental transition or crisis (going to school, becoming a parent, failure to attain a cherished personal goal, retirement). Individual predisposition or vulnerability plays an important role in the ...[+++]risk of occurrence and the shaping of the manifestations of adjustment disorders, but it is nevertheless assumed that the condition would not have arisen without the stressor. The manifestations vary and include depressed mood, anxiety or worry (or mixture of these), a feeling of inability to cope, plan ahead, or continue in the present situation, as well as some degree of disability in 9the performance of daily routine. Conduct disorders may be an associated feature, particularly in adolescents. The predominant feature may be a brief or prolonged depressive reaction, or a disturbance of other emotions and conduct. | Culture shock Grief reaction Hospitalism in children

bereavement counsellor [ grief counsellor ]

accompanying person

Definition: The main feature is loss of memory, usually of important recent events, that is not due to organic mental disorder, and is too great to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness or fatigue. The amnesia is usually centred on traumatic events, such as accidents or unexpected bereavements, and is usually partial and selective. Complete and generalized amnesia is rare, and is usually part of a fugue (F44.1). If this is the case, the disorder should be classified as such. The diagnosis should not be made in the presence of organic brain disorders, intoxication, or excessive fatigue.

Definition: A heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by the acute onset of psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and perceptual disturbances, and by the severe disruption of ordinary behaviour. Acute onset is defined as a crescendo development of a clearly abnormal clinical picture in about two weeks or less. For these disorders there is no evidence of organic causation. Perplexity and puzzlement are often present but disorientation for time, place and person is not persistent or severe enough to justify a diag ...[+++]nosis of organically caused delirium (F05.-). Complete recovery usually occurs within a few months, often within a few weeks or even days. If the disorder persists, a change in classification will be necessary. The disorder may or may not be associated with acute stress, defined as usually stressful events preceding the onset by one to two weeks.

accompanying dependants

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Bereavement Support Project

(d) specific assistance for vulnerable persons such as minors, unaccompanied minors, disabled persons, elderly people, pregnant women, single parents with minor children, victims of trafficking, persons with serious physical illnesses, mental illnesses or post-traumatic disorders, persons at risk of violence due to a personal characteristic referred to in Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and persons who have been subjected to tortur ...[+++]e, rape or other serious forms of psychological, physical or sexual violence;

the technical crew accompanying journalists; participants in official exchange programmes organised by municipal entities other than twin cities; close relatives of EU citizens residing in the territory of the Member State of which they are nationals; persons accompanying persons visiting for medical reasons; representatives of civil society organisations undertaking trips for the purposes of educational training, seminars, conferences; members of the professions participating in international exhibitions, conferences, symposia, ...[+++]seminars or other similar events; representatives of religious communities; and participants in official EU cross-border cooperation programmes.

persons belonging to a vulnerable groups, such as women and children at risk, unaccompanied minors, survivors of violence and torture, persons having serious medical needs that can be addressed only through resettlement, persons in need of emergency resettlement or urgent resettlement for legal or physical protection needs;

(d) specific assistance for vulnerable persons such as minors, unaccompanied minors, disabled persons, elderly people, pregnant women, single parents with minor children, victims of trafficking, persons with serious physical illnesses, mental illnesses or post-traumatic disorders, persons at risk of violence due to a personal characteristic referred to in Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and persons who have been subjected to tortur ...[+++]e, rape or other serious forms of psychological, physical or sexual violence;