What happens when college students experience the death of a close friend or family member? How will the advisor know that the student is grieving and how can academic advisors help college students navigate this normative developmental experience so that it does not have a negative impact on their academic work and personal functioning?
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Everyone grieves, yet when encountering a grieving student, academic advisors may feel helpless. The author suggests tools that can be used can regardless of where the students are along their grief journey.
In August 2017, the field of academic advising lost a champion with the passing of recent NACADA Journal co-editor Leigh S. Shaffer. Leigh, a recognized scholar in his field of social psychology, authored or co-authored 11 peer-reviewed articles for the NACADA Journal, more than any other author in the Journal’s history.
