grief
Sign in to saveGrief 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 often used interchangeably, bereavement refers to the state of loss, while grief is the reaction to that loss.
Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Grief
- Medical condition.synonym
- Mourning; grieving; bereavement
- Medical condition.image
- Grief - old woman (70-ies).jpg
- Medical condition.image_size
- 220px
- Medical condition.treatment
- Pastoral care, mental health professionals, social workers, support groups
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- Grieving process
- Reactions
- Bereavement science
- Bonanno's four trajectories of grief
- "Five stages" model
- Continuing bonds
- Physiological and neurological processes
- Evolutionary hypotheses
- Risks
- Health risks
- Complicated grief
- Disenfranchised grief
- Examples of bereavement
- Death of a child
- Death of a spouse
- Death of a sibling
- Death of a parent
- For an adult
- For a child
- Loss during childhood
- Loss of a friend or classmate
- Other losses
- Veteran bereavement
- Gradual bereavement
- Support
- Professional support
- Support groups
- Cultural differences in grieving
- In those with neurodevelopmental disorders
- In animals
- Mammals
- Birds
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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 often used interchangeably, bereavement refers to the state of loss, while grief is the reaction to that loss.
The grief associated with death is familiar to most people, but individuals grieve in connection with a variety of losses throughout their lives, such as unemployment, ill health or the end of a relationship. Loss can be categorized as either physical or abstract; physical loss is related to something that the individual can touch or measure, such as losing a spouse through death, while other types of loss are more abstract, possibly relating to aspects of a person's social interactions.