Utilize the Unfinished Business in Bereavement Scale, why:

Utilize the Unfinished Business in Bereavement Scale, why:

Using the Unfinished Business in Bereavement Scale (UBBS) can be very valuable in both clinical and research contexts. 

Here’s why it can be useful, especially from a psychological or parapsychological perspective:

Why Use the Unfinished Business in Bereavement Scale (UBBS)?
1. Identifies Unresolved Grief
The UBBS helps detect lingering emotional issues, such as:

Unexpressed feelings

Unresolved conflicts

Regrets or missed opportunities with the deceased

These can deeply affect the grieving process and overall mental health.

2. Promotes Psychological Healing
Understanding unfinished business allows therapists to:

Target specific themes (e.g., guilt, anger, forgiveness)

Create interventions such as guided imagery, letter writing, or gestalt empty-chair work

Facilitate closure through symbolic or therapeutic acts

3. Predicts Complicated Grief & Mental Health Risks
High UBBS scores can signal risk factors for:

Prolonged grief disorder

Depression

Anxiety

PTSD symptoms

It serves as an early warning system for deeper emotional or psychological complications.

4. Supports Tailored Interventions
It allows practitioners to personalize grief therapy based on a client’s unique emotional ties and unresolved issues with the deceased.

For example:

Someone grieving a parent may have different unresolved themes than someone mourning a partner.

It also helps spiritual or existential counselors guide clients through meaning-making processes.

5. Valuable for Parapsychological Exploration
 parapsychology — unfinished business may relate to:

Continued bonds or communication with the deceased

Psychic impressions during grief

Spontaneous after-death communication

The UBBS can be a tool to assess whether such phenomena are linked to unresolved emotional ties, helping you distinguish between emotional projections and potential anomalous experiences.

Shervan K Shahhian