bereavement
丧亲之痛,丧亲,哀伤,丧葬
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- : a period of mourning after a loss, especially after the death of a loved one: The widow had many visitors during her bereavement.
- : a state of intense grief, as after the loss of a loved one; desolation: Not all therapists are equipped to treat clients suffering with such debilitating bereavement.
- : deprivation or loss by force: The bereavement of our community began with the closing of the mill.
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When most people think about grief, “they go immediately to bereavement loss,” said Litsa Williams, a licensed clinical social worker and co-founder of the online support community What’s Your Grief.
“We’ve seen a rise in creative bereavements,” Pitsillides says.
If you’re lucky enough to have guaranteed bereavement time, it’s likely still restricted to immediate relatives.
Every single grief expert Fortune spoke to criticized the country’s lack of federally guaranteed bereavement time—and the few days generally provided by the employers who do offer it.
Only Oregon has passed a law guaranteeing bereavement leave to workers employed in the state, although a similar bill has been under consideration in California.
The stages of heartbreak are similar to the recognized stages of bereavement: shock, denial, grief, anger, finally acceptance.
Bereavement is one of those things Western society is not very good at, particularly the British.
Have you had bereavement or other catastrophic disruptions in your recent life?
And death and bereavement are hardly the only troubles that this conflict brings to a Palestinian childhood.
In this group, when bereavement turns into depression, it requires immediate clinical attention and evaluation.
Loss, where she was concerned, involved a permanent and irremediable bereavement—no substitute was conceivable.