Ambiguous Loss And The Family Grieving Process

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Betz, Gabrielle, and Jill M. Thorngren. "Ambiguous Loss and the Family Grieving Process." The Family Journal 14.4 (2006): 359-65. Web. This article talks about ambiguous grief and how it compares to traditional loss. Ambitious loss can be many things such as a miscarriage, a family member has Alzheimer’s disease, or losing custody of a child. Ambitious loss means there is no closure or clear understanding of what is happened/happening to a family member. This type of closure has a different grieving process compared to the traditional death. The organization of the article was beneficial because it defined ambiguous loss, provided resources, and then had narrative about this type of loss. This article provided information …show more content…
This article focuses on how female adolescents identity developed after a death of a loved one. Death can be extremely difficult of a child to understand it can challenge the way they view the how word. When young adolescents deal with death they have to find a way to deal with grief, while moving forward. This article talks about how death and grief can reconstruct people’s identities. The article continues to talk about the process of grief and how it can affects female …show more content…
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Rezaei, Abdolbaghi, and Seyyed Hassan Seyyedrezaei. "The Contribution of Psychological Theories in Literary Criticism." Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 84 (2013): 1908-11. Web. Rezaei and Seyyedrezaei’s article talks about how psychological theory has contributed to literature. The article talked different psychological theories and the people who helped bring them to life. It talked about Rogers, Maslow, Erickson, Freud, and Bolles. The article went into detail about each gentleman work and the psychological theories they stood by. When reading the article provided a lot of background information on the different theories and gentlemen who stood by them. The article did not go into detail a about how psychological theories connected to text, it just stated knowing the psychological theories well help readers understand the literature context. The article only provided background information, which was beneficial to help back up my understand ing of the theory. The article was not that helpful, but still useful in connecting my topic psychological

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