Knowra Grief Grief Grief is a response to loss, especially the death of someone significant. It can involve emotional, cognitive, social, and physical reactions, with no single timetable or pattern.
Bereavement : Bereavement is the state of having experienced the death of someone significant. It names the lived condition in which grief following a death unfolds.
Loss : Loss is the ending or absence of something valued, through death or other forms of change. Grief is one response to loss, though not every loss produces the same response.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross : Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a psychiatrist whose work helped popularize a stage model of responses to dying. Her model became widely associated with grief, despite not describing a universal sequence for mourners.
Five stages of grief : The five stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, a framework associated with Kübler-Ross. The stages are often misapplied as a fixed path that everyone grieving must follow.
Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement : A model describing coping as movement between loss-focused and restoration-focused attention. It explains why grieving often alternates between confronting the loss and engaging with daily life.
Attachment theory : Attachment theory explains how close relationships provide safety and shape responses to separation. A lost attachment helps explain the intensity and distinctive meaning of bereavement.
Colin Murray Parkes : Colin Murray Parkes was a British psychiatrist known for research on bereavement and attachment. His studies connected bereavement with attachment and helped establish grief research as a clinical field.
Grief counseling : Grief counseling is supportive care that helps people adapt to bereavement and related changes. It offers support without assuming that ordinary grief is itself an illness.
Continuing bonds : Continuing bonds are ongoing inner relationships with deceased people, maintained through memory, ritual, or imagined dialogue. It shows how connection can persist without requiring grief to end through detachment.
Mourning : Mourning is the outward, often culturally shaped expression of grief through practices and behavior. It separates inner responses from the social acts through which loss is expressed.
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