The Grief Cycle

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Help me understand my child´s grief.

The Grief Cycle

The grieving process, although it follows a fairly predictable path, is not the same for each person.
Children, like adults, tend to move through the grief cycle in a sequential order, but it is common for both child and adult to have moved from one step to the other (i.e., anger to bargaining). The grief cycle is as follows:


    Disbelief or denial (e.g., Mommy is still alive, she is just still sick and at the hospital).

    Anger (e.g., I hate Daddy for driving the car Mommy was in when she died).

    Bargaining (e.g., Please God, if you let Mommy come alive, I will be good for the rest of my life).

    Resolution (e.g., I am sad and will never get over Mommy dying but I am still alive).

   

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