Bereavement is the experience of deprivation or loss by death; grief is the psychological or behavioral response that arises from bereavement. However, these treatments rarely address painful grief reactions, such as separation distress or existential distress, or healthy, adaptive grief reactions, such as making meaning of the death or carrying on the deceased person’s legacy. These include reducing unhelpful grief reactions (grief that keeps kids “stuck” and unable to adjust); promoting helpful grief reactions (grief that helps kids to feel and cope better after a death); reducing symptoms of psychological distress; and helping bereaved children to lead healthy, happy, productive lives. “Our goal is not to rid children of their grief, but to provide them with the coping skills needed to better handle their grief reactions over time,” she said. However, Kaplow emphasized that grief does not have a set timeline, and said that for most individuals, waves of grief will ebb and flow over the course of their lives.