Stephen Black wrote: "Data at last. It seems that denial isn't what it's supposed to be.
Instead, it's acceptance all the way (well, most of the way) down."
I don't see the results quite so simply.
For example,
"Although the temporal course of the absolute levels of the 5 grief indicators
did not follow that proposed by the stage theory of grief, when rescaled
and examined for each indicators peak, the data fit the hypothesized
sequence exactly."
Morover,
"Evidently, a high degree of acceptance, even in the initial month
postloss, is the norm in the case of natural deaths. This contrasts with individuals
who survived a family members traumatic death and those who met criteria
for complicated grief disorder, both groups of whom were found in preliminary
analyses to have significantly lower levels of acceptance relative to the study
sample."
These subgroups comprise a large percentage of individuals who seek out therapists for grief counseling.
Stephen Black then wrote: "Are grief counsellors going to change their tune? I wouldn't bet on it."
Don't bet on it, because the article doesn't require the dramatic paradigm shift you seem to think it does.
Just let us do the work that we know how to do best
Dr Jim Guinee
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