On 2 Mar 2007 at 10:32, Rick Froman wrote: > When you are speaking of post-loss and grief, I assume you are speaking > of dealing with the death of another person. I thought the Kubler-Ross > stages were stages the individual goes through in dealing with their > own impending death. I don't see how bargaining or any of the other > stages makes a lot of sense when we are talking about grief about > someone else's death.
Yes, Maciejewski et al note in their Introduction that Kubler-Ross proposed her stages as applying to the response of terminally-ill patients to their own impending death. But they also point out that the theory has been widely generalized to coping with the death of a loved one. You can readily verify this usage by searching on Google using "stages of grief" as your entry. The article again is: > Maciejewski, P. et al (2007, February 21, actually). An Empirical > Examination of the Stage Theory of Grief. JAMA. 2007;297:716-723 > > > http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/297/7/716 Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
