[Accompanying caregivers facing bereavement in an institutional clinic]

In view of the major psychological issues that characterize the mourning process, a system has been working for about ten years in a group of health and medico-social institutions to support caregivers. The institutional intervention unit, composed of specially trained psychologists, offers discussion groups for these teams who have been confronted with the sometimes very brutal experience of loss and accompanies them towards the resumption of a mourning process. Based on group psychodynamic approaches, the reasons that can hinder the stages of mourning in these groups and the effects of the proposed discussion groups are explored.