Grief

Question 1

List five symptoms of grief

Answer 1

1. Reduced concentration
2. Emotional numbness
3. Disruptive sleep patterns
4. Change of eating habits
5. Roller coaster of emotions

Question 2

Rando’s R-stages of grief model

Answer 2

1. Recognize
2. React
3. Recollect and Re-experience
4. Relinquish
5. Readjust
6. Reinvest

Question 3

Rando’s R-stages of grief model Recognize

Answer 3

Recognize the loss:

• First, people must experience their loss and understand that it has happened.

Question 4

Rando’s R-stages of grief model: React

Answer 4

People react emotionally to their loss.

Question 5

Rando’s R-stages of grief model: Recollect & Re-experience

Answer 5

People may review memories of their lost relationship (events that occurred, places visited together, or day to day moments that were experienced together).

Question 6

Rando’s R-stages of grief model: Relinquish

Answer 6

People begin to put their loss behind them, realizing and accepting that the world has truly changed and that there is no turning back.

Question 7

Rando’s R-stages of grief model: Readjust

Answer 7

People begin the process of returning to daily life and the loss starts to feel less acute and sharp.

Question 8

Rando’s R-stages of grief model: Reinvest

Answer 8

Ultimately, people re-enter the world, forming new relationships and commitments. They accept the changes that have occurred and move past them.