Grief/Loss Unresolved Behaviors:
- Loss of contact with a positive support network due to a geographic move.
- Loss of meaningful contact with a parent figure due to the parent's emotional abandonment.
- Strong emotional response experienced when the loss is mentioned.
- Lack of appetite, nightmares, restlessness, inability to concentrate, irritability, tearfulness, or social withdrawal that began subsequent to a loss.
- Marked drop in school grades, and an increase in angry outbursts, hyperactivity, or clinginess when separating from parents.
- Feelings of guilt associated with the unreasonable belief in having done something to cause the loss or not having prevented it.
- Avoidance of talking at length or in any depth about the loss.
- Loss of contact with a parent due to the parent's death.
- Loss of contact with a parent figure due to termination of parental rights.
- Loss of contact with a parent due to the parent's incarceration.