Coping With Grief in Response to Caring for Persons With AIDS

AIDS has or will affect virtually every professional health care provider. Occupational therapists are in a key position to identify and intervene with the so­ cial and occupational changes and losses com­ monly experienced by this patient population. Sug­ gestions are provided to assist occupational therapists in helping patients with AIDS maintain meaning in their lives. Strategies to help occupa­ tional therapists prevent burnout resulting from the emotional stress related to caringfor patients with AIDS are suggested as well.