ABSTRACT
Introduction Events in the recent past have resulted in the need for grief counselors to become more knowledgeable of the impact of trauma on the grief process. Human-caused events such as the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma; the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon building in Washington, DC on Sept. 11, 2001; the underground bombings in London, England, on July 7, 2005; and the train bombings in Madrid, Spain, on March 11, 2004, are not alone in demonstrating the need to prepare more effective trauma-grief support personnel. Natural events such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina of 2005, the Haitian earthquake in 2010, and the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan have also resulted in populations in need for trauma support resources.
