Question

What key factors are shown to complicate the bereavement process? How do we know if someone's process is being stunted (e.g., symptoms)?

What are the factors associated with bereavement among elderly men? Why might husbands and wives mourn differently?

Answer 1

What key factors are shown to complicate the bereavement process? How do we know if someone's process is being stunted (e.g., symptoms)?

Factors that could complicate grief are:

• Recent losses
• Guilt for someone’s death
• Sudden deaths
• Personal history of moe than one loss
• Insensitive comments
• Societal norms
• No previous exposure to managing loss.

To identify if the process of grief is stunted is:

• Denial
• Confusion
• Depression
• Isolation and irritability
• Feeling victimised
• Feeling hopeless
• Dreams about the dead people.