You are Weeping for That Which Has Been Your Delight”

To explore how people experience grief and what factors are perceived as facilitating successful grief work, a survey was distributed to people who had completed a grief recovery course. The results showed that emotions, cognitions, physical expressions, and behaviors all characterize grief, but that emotions are the most central component. The course brought relief and was regarded most favorably by those having at least 1 year between the grief trigger event and participation in the course. Writing a letter in which course participants express their feelings to the loss object was perceived as the most successful aspect of the course. The letter might help with grief recovery by bringing aspects that have not been dealt with into conscious awareness

Cognition · Complicated grief · Course (navigation · Disenfranchised grief · Feeling · Grief · Object (grammar · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Traumatic grief · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Migration, Health and Trauma · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Psychology · Social Psychology

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• The Rhetoric of Shared Grief

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• A scoping research literature review to map the evidence on grief triggers

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• Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy

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• The varieties of grief experience

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• The effectiveness of psychotherapeutic interventions for bereaved persons

  John Mcnab Currier, Joseph M Currier et al.•Psychological Bulletin•2008

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  Carol H Ott•Death Studies•2003

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• Adjustment to threatening events

  Shelley E Taylor•American Psychologist•1983

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• Making sense of loss and benefiting from the experience

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• The time course of grief reactions to spousal loss

  Katherine B Carnelley, Camille B Wortman et al.•Journal of Personality and Social…•2006

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