[ABSTRACT] In this paper we question the utilitry of the ?trauma? model that is used nowdays in most of the programs aiming to work with mental health issues raised by war or political violence. We propose an alternative model based in considering the difficulties that war situation implies for the tasks involved in grief process: 1) to accept the reality of the loss, 2) to experience the pain of grief, 3) to cope in an enenvironment in which what has been loss is misssing, and 4) to re-locate w