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This 9 page paper present a Wilsonian conceptual analysis of grief. Secions include questions, definitions and how the term grief is used, examples of Contrary, Related, Borderline cases, social and cultural context, feelings and anxiety underlying grief, practical implications, the importance of language and how the conceptual anslysis is useful. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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are used (The University of Kansas Medical Center, n.d.). As Wilson so correctly noted, words have many different meanings and we just spend too much time focusing on their meanings
(The University of Kansas Medical Center, n.d.). The following pages present a Wilsonian concept analysis of grief. 1. Isolating Questions The primary questions related to the concept of
grief is: What exactly is grief? How is grief defined? How is the term used? How is grief expressed behaviorally? 2. Right Answers or Essential Uses of Concept The
dictionary defines grief as: 1.) great sadness, especially as a result of a death; 2.) the cause of intense, deep, and profound sorrow, especially a specific event or situation; and
3.) annoyance or trouble (informal) (Microsoft Corp, 2004). Kaunonen (2000) citing the literature described grief as a complex multidimensional dynamic process resulting from the loss of a person with whom
the griever has an emotional bond. Grief is not static, it is a dynamic, normal, pervasive and very individualized process (Kaunonen, 2000). There are two purposes of grief: 1.)
to accept the death as real and 2.) "to cope with the emotional and social problems that are created as a result of the loss" (Kaunonen, 2000). As an individualized
process, each person may exhibit different behaviors when grieving. This is also true to the amount of time the person feels grief (Kaunonen, 2000). The person may indeed feel grief
for years and/or they may feel grief at specific times in the year, such as holidays, birthdays, anniversaries and so on (Kaunonen, 2000). Specific behaviors that may be associated with
grief include: loss of appetite, sleeplessness, crying, detachment from others, depression, cognitive dysfunction, feelings of meaninglessness, spiritual reaching (Kaunonen, 2000). 3. Examples: Model, Contrary, Related, Borderline Creating a model
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