ABSTRACT
This chapter explores screative teaching strategies that health professionals learn about the appropriate aspects of bereavement and loss, and discusses the key issues and implications for providing the education to improve clinical interventions. Education about the theoretical frameworks and models alone is not sufficient to equip health professionals to deal with all the traumas faced by their patients, carers, relatives and colleagues as a result of loss. It must be acknowledged nonetheless that the frameworks and models do go some way towards making sense of this complex process. When educating health professionals on bereavement theories and models, the message is that people do need to know what to expect when they or others are grieving. Many years ago, there were only a small number of bereavement practitioners and educators who were raising awareness of what to do after death, about the funeral process, and the role of the funeral directors.
