8. Abnormal Grief Reactions: Complicated Grief Flashcards
Why do people fail to grief?
- Relational Factors
- Circumstantial Factors
- Historical Factors
- Personality Factors
- Social Factors
What are ways grief goes wrong? (Types of Grief)
- Pathological Grief
- Unresolved Grief
- Complicated Grief
- Chronic Grief
- Prolonged Grief
- Delayed Grief
- Exaggerated Grief
What is pathological grief?
When the loss is combined with other losses
What is unresolved grief?
When you don’t have time to react
What is complicated grief?
Feeling abandoned / sad because the plans also die
What is chronic grief?
The grief is accumulated instead of being processed
What is prolonged grief?
Culturally having to grief for specific time
What is delayed grief?
Postponing the grief
What is exaggerated grief?
Support system begins to move on so you regress to avoid being lonely
What is complicated bereavement?
The intensification of grief to the level where the person is either overwhelmed, resorts to maladaptive behavior, or remains interminably in the state of grief without the progression of the mourning toward completion
*Could be long term / forever
Who created the Paradigm of Complicated Grief?
J William Worden
What is masked grief?
Pretending you’re ok, hiding that you’re griefing
What is J William Worden’s Paradigm of Complicated Grief?
-Chronic grief
-Delayed grief
-Exaggerated grief
-Masked grief
