ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the role of the social worker in helping the client fulfil four existential needs related to meaning making. These four existential needs in grief: dignity, understanding of justice, now-in-relation-to-later and control. The chapter explains the functioning of the meaning making mechanism and zero-dimension of grief. It indicates what the narrative method has to offer to reduce meaning making stress and to restore one's strength. The chapter addresses what is meant by the impact narrative and the helping narrative? It also addresses how can the narrative method contribute to the reduction of meaning making stress and recovering one's strength? From literary research about care in stressful situations and the environment acting as a buffer, it appeared that a sense of dignity and trust in one's own personality can be decisive elements in learning how to integrate periods of crisis into one's life.
