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Grief

Grief is the response to the loss of something deemed important, in particular the death of a person or animal 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, political and philosophical dimensions. While the terms are…

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Other names
Mourning; grieving; bereavement
Specialty
Psychology
Treatment
Pastoral care, mental health professionals, social workers, support groups

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Grieving process

Reactions

Bereavement science

Physiological and neurological processes

Risks

Examples of bereavement

Support

Cultural differences in grieving

In those with neurodevelopmental disorders

In animals

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Grief

Nodes130
Edges129
Triples336
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015385
Components1

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Grief

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related to Further reading · 91
Grief → Affective Disorders, Aging/Death, Albert, Bereavement Groups, Black, Boelen, Characteristics, Cholbi, Complicated Grief, Death, December, Depression, Donald, Dying, Elderly, Elderly Husband, Family Worldview, Father, February, Hek
related to Cultural differences in grieving · 18
Grief → American, An, Arizona, Columbia University, Cross-Cultural Fiction, Different, Each, Glen Coughlin, Grief Management, Hopi, In, In Japan, Mourning, The, The American, The Grief Committee, The Politics, Western
related to Mammals · 17
Grief → All Ball, And, Another, For, Goodall, However, Jane Goodall, Koko, Mammals, Of, One, Other, She, Such, The, The Royal Society, When
related to Evolutionary hypotheses · 15
Grief → Bo Winegard, But, Freud, From, Generally, However, If, John Archer, More, Other, Randolph Nesse, Several, Sigmund Freud, That, The
related to Bonanno's four trajectories of grief · 12
Grief → AIDS, Because, Bonanno, Bonanno's, Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Columbia University, George Bonanno, His, Israel, Subjects, The
related to Complicated grief · 11
Grief → An, CGD, Critics, DSM, DSM-5, Individuals, It, Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder, PGD, Prolonged, Shear
related to In animals · 11
Grief → After, Cats, For, One, Previously, Since, Some, The, There, This, When
related to Continuing bonds · 10
Grief → According, Among, Attempting, Continuing, Dennis Klass, In, Phyllis Silverman, Steven Nickman, Toward, While
related to Death of a spouse · 9
Grief → Contemporary, In, Many, Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, Mumtaz Mahal, Often, Shah Jahan, Taj Mahal, The
related to Professional support · 9
Grief → America, Can, In, Many, Medline Plus, Other, Some, Support, United States

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loss death may deceased bereavement one also people complicated life depression support process social bereaved child parent mourning grieving many

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
GriefOther namesMourning; grieving; bereavement1.00infobox
GriefSpecialtyPsychology1.00infobox
GriefTreatmentPastoral care, mental health professionals, social workers, support groups1.00infobox
Griefis aresponse to the loss of something deemed important0.90text
Griefis areaction to that loss.The grief associated with death is familiar to most people0.90text
Griefis amore complex process of adapting to loss than stage and phase models have previously suggested0.90text
Griefis aprocess of libidinal reinvestment0.90text
Griefis abyproduct of the human attachment system0.90text
Griefis akind of psychological pain that orients the sufferer to a new existence without the deceased and creates a painful but instructive memory0.90text
Griefis amore severe and prolonged version of acute grief than a completely different type of grief0.90text
Griefis aterm describing grief that is not acknowledged by society0.90text
Randolph Nesse have proposed that grief is a kind of psychological pain that orients the sufferer to a new existence without the deceasedinstance ofis a painful cost of the human capacity to form commitments.Other researchers0.80text

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