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• 1 Introduction: Concepts and Issues in contemporary Research on Bereavement

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• After 1940s, what was to characterize more recent directions for scientific research?

  more systematic mapping of manifestations and duration of grief --> gain understanding about vulnerabilities of grieving individuals and indications for providing care

• First the focus was very much on symptomatology (interpersonal processes), however interest developed for 

  interpersonal issues including social risk factors, the effectiveness of the intervention, and consequences of bereavement on social networks

• what three areas seemed to represent areas in which most development has taken place since the 1990s?

  Consequences
  Coping 
  Care

• Over the years there has been _____ among researchers with respect to a number of concepts and manifestations associated with bereavement

  reasonable agreement

• why is the studying of consequences still important?

  there is still little knowledge about male grieving processes or somatization of grief in non-western cultures. There may also be a difference between consequences now and what they used to be, given societal changes within which grieving takes place

• what dimensions of grief are there?

  affective
  behavioural
  
  cognitive
  physiological 

• True/False: Grief is the same everywhere

  no, there are cultural differences 

• what is the growing concern of limiting to and labeling grief reactions as symptomatology?

  it causes medicalization, and implies that grief is an illness and medical problem

• there is a thin line between coping and symptomatology, give an example:

  crying as a symptom, however shedding tears has also been shown to alleviate stress. variables can be examined as process or product of grief 

• A current popular view about bereavement individuals:

  they do not 'get over' loss, but rather adapt and adjust to changed situation