Explain The Four Stages Of Grief

There are four phases of grief: numbness, yearning, disorganisation and despair and reorganisation (changes in behaviour) also known as the phases of shock, reaction, repair and the new orientation phase.How may the children be helped?The nine and six year old child may experience inhibited grief, although most common in children under five years old as they are not necessarily sufficiently mature to fully understand their grief. Indeed, the nine year old will have a more adult understanding of death, the six year old not so much. Children should be encouraged to talk about their feelings. Above all else, they need to know that feeling sad is normal and not silly in any way. This can take the form of talking to a trusted adult or joining a
Any adult who interacts with the children needs to ensure that they are not exposing the children to an unhealthy reaction to the death.In order to help the children process their emotions about their grandmother’s death, they need to be told that their grandmother’s death was not at her behest, that she did not want it to happen and that it was not anybody else’s fault. The children also need to be told that their grandmother is at peace and cannot feel upset about her death, herself.It is important to check in with the children to check about any physical symptoms they may be suffering from in the wake of their grandmother’s death and that they have access to a doctor if necessary. It is also important that if they seem very upset, then a trusted professional can ask if they are feeling so bad that they have thought about killing themselves, in order to get the necessary help and prevent such an eventuality from occurring. What are the effects of grief on the mother? Grief is chaotic and as such, the mother may have a sense of