The cultural and socio-psychological interactions of mourning in the arabo-berber moroccan society

Although the fact that the cultural characteristics of the Moroccan population have been changing, the beliefs and customs concerning grief and bereavement remain fairly constant. This article describes the beliefs and traditions of the Moroccan population and is quite similar to those of the countries of North Africa as Muslim Arab countries. Certainly, the customs, rituals and beliefs of the Moroccan population affect the experience of death, the grief of the bereaved, hence the interest for mental health professionals to be open to learning all this in order to better understand and help the bereaved.