The Dual Process Model Of Grief Counseling
Grieving
Per Santrock (2015), “grief is the emotional numbness, disbelief, separation anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness that accompany the loss of someone we love. Grief is not a simple emotional state but rather a complex, evolving process with multiple dimensional”. There are few types of grieving which are long-term grief or also known as prolonged or complicated grief, and disenfranchised grief. Per Miller (2012), long-term grief is sometimes masked and can predispose individuals to become depressed and even suicidal. Prolonged grief possibly happen when individuals had lost their spouse, lost loved one unexpectedly, or spent time with the deceased every day in the last week of the person’s life; while complicated grief are more likely to be present in older adults when the grief was in response to the death of a child or …show more content…
Adults with depression are usually prone to have complicated grief. Disenfranchised is described by Gill and Lowes (2014); Spidell and others (2011) as one grief over departed person that is a socially ambiguous loss that cannot be openly mourned or supported such as an abortion, the death of an ex-spouse and etcetera (Santrock, 2015). Per Stroebe & Schut (1999), the dual process model of coping with bereavement identified two oscillating coping processes, loss and restoration (Bennett, Gibbons, & Mackenzie-Smith, 2010). I can relate the grief theory with my grandfather, whom loss his wife earlier this year. I knew he took her death hard because it was my first time saw him bawling his heart out. Right after my grandma’s death; my grandpa move into our house and often late at night I would see him in the living room sitting alone with
Per Santrock (2015), “grief is the emotional numbness, disbelief, separation anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness that accompany the loss of someone we love. Grief is not a simple emotional state but rather a complex, evolving process with multiple dimensional”. There are few types of grieving which are long-term grief or also known as prolonged or complicated grief, and disenfranchised grief. Per Miller (2012), long-term grief is sometimes masked and can predispose individuals to become depressed and even suicidal. Prolonged grief possibly happen when individuals had lost their spouse, lost loved one unexpectedly, or spent time with the deceased every day in the last week of the person’s life; while complicated grief are more likely to be present in older adults when the grief was in response to the death of a child or …show more content…
Adults with depression are usually prone to have complicated grief. Disenfranchised is described by Gill and Lowes (2014); Spidell and others (2011) as one grief over departed person that is a socially ambiguous loss that cannot be openly mourned or supported such as an abortion, the death of an ex-spouse and etcetera (Santrock, 2015). Per Stroebe & Schut (1999), the dual process model of coping with bereavement identified two oscillating coping processes, loss and restoration (Bennett, Gibbons, & Mackenzie-Smith, 2010). I can relate the grief theory with my grandfather, whom loss his wife earlier this year. I knew he took her death hard because it was my first time saw him bawling his heart out. Right after my grandma’s death; my grandpa move into our house and often late at night I would see him in the living room sitting alone with