Stages of Greif
Introduction: Grief is something every person will experience at some point in his life, and can affect people in very different ways, So for medical students and future doctors, understanding how people usually cope with their losses is very important, because we often meet patients and families during some of the hardest moments in their lives. Key psychological Concepts: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s model describes five stages of grief: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance , they are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief. Not everyone goes through all of them or in a prescribed order, also these stages are not linear ; individuals may move back and forth between them or experience several of them at the same time. Denial, This first stage of grieving helps us to survive the l...
