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Grieving Process
The grieving/bereavement process
The concept of bereavement, in as much as it is universal and being a daily occurrence, it still remains an enigma that lives with us, it is hard to understand and in the same measure tricky to handle and get along with the consequences that come with it. It is a phenomenon that though every living human being is aware of its inevitable arrival some day, none of them is well prepared enough to handle bereavement and the accompanying consequences with ease. This is why a lot of focus has been directed towards trying to understand bereavement and attempts made towards devising ways and means of coping with grief that comes from bereavement as well as walking through the tough times that come with the loss of loved ones.
WordNet (2013) descries bereavement simply as "State of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one." The other reliable online source of definitions is the Free Dictionary (2013) which also describes bereavement as "the condition having been deprived of something or someone valued, esp through death." These are two brief definitions with the common denominator of lack of joy due to death. These two definitions recognize the fact that when one dies, there are people left behind...
This is a period that can be very confusing since it involves lots of powerful emotions that if not controlled can ruin the entire life of the bereaved. The bereaved will go through several stages and these emotions will grow, change or even disappear as the bereaved individual moves from one stage to the other, there is no predictable pattern in handling of grief but just a general map or direction of how most bereaved people will handle themselves.
It must be noted that not everyone experiences the various stages of bereavement at the same time and in the same order as will be indicated below, however, most bereaved people are observed to go through the following main stages; denial, anger, Bargaining, depression and acceptance. It was Elizabeth Kubler who in 1969 in her book "On Death and Dying" gave a comprehensive approach and observation to normal grieving and thereafter paved way for other psychologists to reproduce several other materials on the same subject (Axelrod J.,…
References
Axelrod J., (2013). The 5 Stages of Loss and Grief. Retrieved November 29, 2014 from http://psychcentral.com/lib/the-5-stages-of-loss-and-grief/000617
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, (2013). Complicated Grief: Symptoms. Retrieved November 29, 2014 from http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/complicated-grief/DS01023/DSECTION=symptoms
WordNet, (2013). Bereavement. Retrieved November 29, 2014 from http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bereavement
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