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Grief is the response to the loss of something deemed important, particularly to the loss of someone or some living thing that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, grief also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural, spiritual and philosophical dimensions.
Bonanno's work has also demonstrated that absence of grief or trauma symptoms is a healthy outcome. [43] [44] Among social scientists, another criticism is a lack of theoretical underpinning. [1] [45] Because the stages arose from anecdotes and not underlying theoretical principles it contains conceptual confusion. For example, some people ...
No. 5: ‘I want to come give you a hug’. Before I was thrust into grief, I would not have understood how a loving gesture from a friend could ever feel uncomfortable. Now I do. Those of us ...
The dual process model of coping is a model for coping with grief developed by Margaret Stroebe and Henk Schut. This model seeks to address shortcomings of prior models of coping, and provide a framework that better represents the natural variation in coping experience on a day to day basis. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The authors came up with a dual process ...
George A. Bonanno (/ bəˈnænoʊ /) is a professor of clinical psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, U.S. [1] He is responsible for introducing the controversial idea of resilience to the study of loss and trauma. He is known as a pioneering researcher in the field of bereavement and trauma. [2][3][4][5][6] The New York Times on ...
Prolonged grief disorder (PGD), also known as complicated grief (CG), [ 1 ]traumatic grief (TG) [ 2 ] and persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD) in the DSM-5, [ 3 ] is a mental disorder consisting of a distinct set of symptoms following the death of a family member or close friend (i.e. bereavement). People with PGD are preoccupied by ...
Coping refers to conscious or unconscious strategies used to reduce and manage unpleasant emotions. Coping strategies can be cognitions or behaviors and can be individual or social. To cope is to deal with struggles and difficulties in life. [ 1 ] It is a way for people to maintain their mental and emotional well-being. [ 2 ]
Psychological resilience is the ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis, or to return to pre-crisis status quickly. [1]The term was popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by psychologist Emmy Werner as she conducted a forty-year-long study of a cohort of Hawaiian children who came from low socioeconomic status backgrounds.