A 34-year-old single mother of three had been involved in a ...

[berenicecastro]

A 34-year-old single mother of three had been involved in a secret relationship with her boss, a married man who was 24 years her senior.
 
  When her boss suddenly died as the result of a heart attack, the woman had difficulty expressing the extent of her loss. The grief that she was expe-riencing could best be described as which of the following? a. Disenfranchised
  b. Complicated
  c. Normal
  d. Anticipatory

Question 2

A 45-year-old widow, who is being seen in a mental health clinic for clinical depression and alcohol dependency, lost her husband and her son in a boating accident 10 months earlier, and has become increasingly despondent and withdrawn.
 
  She verbalizes that she feels overwhelmed by her loss. Her daughter urged her mother to seek help. Which type of complicated grief best explains Eleanor's behavior? a. Chronic
  b. Delayed
  c. Exaggerated
  d. Masked

[Ksh22]

Answer to Question 1

A
Disenfranchised grief occurs in situations in which others view a person's loss as insignificant or invalid. For example, a grieving woman does not experience support from her parents when ex-periencing the loss of her ex-husband. Complicated grief happens when a person has difficulty progressing through the loss experience. The person does not accept the reality of the loss, and the intense feelings associated with acute grief do not go away. Normal or uncomplicated grief consists of commonly expected emotional and behavioral reactions to a loss (e.g., resentment, sorrow, anger, crying, loneliness, and temporary withdrawal from activities). The process of let-ting go before an actual loss or death has occurred is called anticipatory grief.

Answer to Question 2

C
People having an exaggerated grief response are overwhelmed by their loss, have difficulties functioning, and display significant behavioral dysfunction. Chronic grief occurs when the active acute mourning experienced in normal grief reactions does not decrease and continues over long periods of time. When people consciously or unconsciously avoid the pain of loss and do not experience common grief reactions at the time of the loss, they have a delayed grief reaction. Masked grief occurs after a significant loss in which some people are unable to recognize that the behaviors making normal functioning difficult are a result of their loss. For example, a person who loses a pet develops changes in sleeping patterns but does not see the connection between the two events.

[berenicecastro]

Thank you!

[Ksh22]

Always glad to help...