Grief and Coping
Models and Theories
Specific Losses
Potluck
100

This type of grief involves loss that cannot be openly acknowledged, socially sanctioned, and publicly shared

Disenfranchised Grief

100

This model demonstrates how we bounce between loss-oriented coping and restoration oriented coping 

Dual Process Model

100
This type of loss are those losses followed by the primary loss

Secondary Loss

100

This type of care focuses on quality of life and managing symptoms, but is not limited to just end of life

Palliative care

200

This type of grief overwhelms a person in a persistent way and trap them into unproductive, maladaptive behavior

complicated grief

200

This model holds that being divorced or widowed involves persistent strains that do not disappear and might continue more or less indefinitely

Chronic Strain Model 

200

This type of child occurs when parents treat survivor siblings as if they are incredibly precious, over protecting them

Bound Child

200

This type of suicide happens when individuals are overly integrated into the society (an exaggerated concern for the community) and are will to die for the group, such as pilots in WWII, 911 terrorists, other suicide bombers 

Altruistic suicide

300

This type of task with coping focuses on meaningful relationships and connectedness

Social

300

This theory categorizes grief reactions into three domains:

Separation Distress

Existential/Identity Crisis

Circumstance-Related Distress

Multidimensional Grief Theory 

300

Parents who has lost a child to SIDs often experience this type of grief

Anomic

300

Widowhood and this are the two most stressful events faced in adulthood

Divorce

400

This is when someone must constantly change cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external and/or internal demands that are appraised as taxing or exceeding the resources of a person

Coping

400

This model for therapy includes: 

Includes a combination of psychoeducation about common grief reactions and skill  building exercises

Exposure based sessions in which participants retell the story of their loved ones death or dying

Restorative Reflecting for Violent Loss

400

This is a way to communicate with children after loss that can take place through means such as artwork

Symbolic nonverbal communication 

400

This is when a small group of people who have undergone a similar life experience come together, proven to be therapeutic, discovering how natural one’s feelings are 

Support Group

500

This is the process of detachment from the loved one that is moderated by identification

Mourning

500

This type of interpretation tend to reject or de-emphasize a belief in the afterlife

Temporal 

500

There is a link between transgenerational trauma and this

Suicide ideation

500

This type of loss involves situations that combine loss and presence relational disorders that may or may not involve death

Ambiguous 

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