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  • Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement.

    The Dual Process Model provides an evidence-based alternative to the stages of grief model. Created by Stroebe and Schut in 1999, the model identifies actions of grieving people.

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  • A family in need: toward a grief literate community.

    It was Sunday morning, about 8:30. A group of people moved along the front of the hospital, across the crosswalk and into the parking lot. From their slow pace and the clusters and the lingering in groups by two or three cars, I guessed that they were coming from the death I knew had happened…

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  • 8 principles for change: toward a grief literate community.

    What would it look like for people to feel supported in the hours and months after a death? In 2021, the UK Commission on Bereavement asked that question. Actually, they asked several questions. They did surveys and reviewed the literature and held several consultations. It was in the middle of the pandemic, with an increase in…

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