Knowra Bereavement Bereavement Bereavement is the state of having experienced the death of someone significant. It encompasses personal, social, and practical responses to that loss.
Grief : Grief is the emotional, cognitive, physical, and social response to loss. Grief is a common response to bereavement, but the terms describe different things.
Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement : A model describing bereavement coping as movement between loss-focused and restoration-focused attention. It explains how people alternate between confronting the loss and adapting to changed routines.
Prolonged grief disorder : Prolonged grief disorder is a mental disorder involving persistent, impairing grief beyond expected cultural and contextual norms. It is a diagnosable condition that may arise after bereavement, not a synonym for bereavement.
Bereavement leave : Bereavement leave is time away from work granted after the death of a family member or other close person. It addresses the practical need for time to grieve, attend rituals, and manage arrangements.
Mourning : Mourning is the outward expression and social practice of responding to a death. Rituals and customs make bereavement visible within families and communities.
Continuing bonds : Continuing bonds are ongoing inner relationships with someone who has died, maintained through memory, identity, or ritual. The relationship may change without disappearing after death.
Anticipatory grief : Anticipatory grief is grief experienced before an expected death or other impending loss. It can begin before the death, whereas bereavement follows an actual death.
Hospice care : Hospice care provides comfort-focused support for people approaching the end of life and their families. Hospice teams often prepare families for loss and offer support after a death.
Death : Death is the irreversible cessation of the biological functions that sustain an organism. A death is the event that begins bereavement.
Meaning reconstruction : Meaning reconstruction is the process of revising beliefs and life stories after a disruptive loss. A death can unsettle assumptions about identity, purpose, and the future.
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