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The term grief is typically associated with a process related to the loss due to the death of a person with whom a bond qualified as important was sustained. However, the concept is related to the notion of loss itself, whether of something or someone valued as significant, due to death or not. In this way, a grief can be experienced in different contexts and moments of life, nevertheless, within the framework of interpersonal relationships, particularly significant losses can happen as we are social beings. Therefore, this text has the aim of reviewing three forms of grief in the interpersonal dimension: first, sentimental breakup grief, in which the bond and the meanings associated with it are lost; second, the empty nest syndrome, refers to the context in which children leave home and parents lose the life dynamic associated with being their caregivers; and, third, parasocial grief, which the loss refers to the death or disappearance of a character or public figure with whom there was a symbolic bond. It is considered relevant to mention that in the three contexts, the evidence supports that people can experience the same stages that they would go through in a typical grief due to death. Finally, intervention options that have shown empirical support are also presented and we concluded with the invitation to expand the treatment in basic and applied research of the grief phenomenon, beyond the loss due to the death of someone close.
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