“…As noted earlier, the discussion of grief issues initially addressed in 1980s (i.e., Wright, 1983), were expanded in the 1990s as an important component of psychosocial adaptation (Livneh & Antonak, 1997) and coping with chronic illness and disability (Moore & Stambrook, 1992). However, similar to the stumbling blocks encountered in the medical disciplines, early efforts and attempts to address grief issues and include grief education in rehabili-tation counseling dissipated along with several advocating voices (e.g., Hunt, 2007;Hunt & Rosenthal, 2000;Stebnicki, 2000). Even recently, there have been only a couple in-depth studies that attempt to bring this important theme back to attention (Cicchetti et al, 2016;Heatherly, 2016).…”