Essay

Grieving

Research Topic: Do children and adults grieve in different ways?

The grieving process is a terrible experience that almost every individual will go through at least once during their lives. The loss of a loved one or an individual someone cares about can affect a person in so many different ways that the process is not always the same for every individual. The grieving process is different for every person depending on the relationship, age and how the loved one has passed. However, children react in a different manner than adults when grieving.

I personally first experienced the grief process when my father passed away from cancer after three years. However, I was not the only one to experience this grief. My mother, siblings, and other family members had experienced a loss of a loved one also. The relationship was not the same between all of us though. My mother had lost a husband, my half brothers and sisters had lost a father, and my uncles and aunts had lost a brother. My siblings were older than me with children and they have experienced grieving before, however, I had not.

Almost immediately after the death of my father I noticed they were not grieving the same way I was. So my research will be on the grieving process in children and adults and trying to understand if the grieving process and reactions are similar or different depending on the age and relationship of who was lost.

“It is considered a process because grief ranges in duration and intensity and happens over the course of time, with no specific end point.” (Scarince 1:33). Scarince is an author who has her Masters degree in Sociology particularly grieving. The video source gives the viewer information about uncomplicated and complicated grief which are two different kinds of grief that individuals go through during the grieving process. Complicated grief is described as a disabling condition and uncomplicated grief can be described as a process that as time goes on, activities...