Grief And Loss

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to process and adapt to their loss with no difficulty while others are unable to process and adapt to the loss. Circumstances surrounding the loved one’s death can also have an impact on how you grieve. Your personality, age, gender, religion, ethnicity, culture, coping skills and your family are factors that may influence your grief reaction.
It is my opinion that grief is universal; yet experienced differently by all. There are times when the emotional response to the loss of a loved one becomes overwhelming and unbearable. Knowing when to ask for help in paramount in the grieving process and it is the writer’s position that grief counseling , where one facilitates the tasks of morning in the recently bereaved in order that the bereavement process comes to a successful termination and grief therapy, which helps the individual identify and resolve the conflicts of separation which preclude the completion of mourning tasks in person whose grief is absent, delayed, excessive or prolonged Worden (2002), is necessary to help individuals through their grief regardless of the type of loss. The intro is clear and helps to introduce the paper.
What is Grief?
The terms bereavement, grief, and mourning will be defined. Bereavement is the state of having experienced a loss (Rando, 1995); this definition corresponds with the accepted practice of describing an individual as bereaved, rather than as bereaving. Grief is the generally passive and involuntary reaction to the state of bereavement. Worden (2002) defines grief as the experience of one who has lost a loved one to death. Although grief is commonly considered an emotional state, it actually extends well beyond the realm of emotions (Rando, 1993). The complex responses associated with grief span the affective, cognitive, physical, behavioral, social (Rando, 1995, Worden, 2002), and spiritual domains of human functioning (Cook & Dworkin, 1992; Corr et al., 2000). Mourning involve...