Psychology / Unit 8 Psych 0939 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Kübler-Ross's Stages of Grief
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The idea
Kübler-Ross described five responses to terminal diagnosis and loss: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
In practice
A patient's initial insistence on a testing error is described as the denial response.
Where people slip
The model was drawn from clinical observation of dying patients, not from a systematic study of grief.
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