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If the Grieving Adolescent's Friends Fail to Understand His or Her

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If the grieving adolescent's friends fail to understand his or her pain or are rejecting, the adolescent may be devastated and grieve the loss of the friends too.


Definitions:

Preoperational Stage

A developmental phase in Piagetian theory, where children from about 2 to 7 years old develop memory and imagination, but do not yet think logically.

Theory Of Mind

A cognitive ability to understand that others have beliefs, desires, intentions, and perspectives different from one's own.

Egocentrism

The inability to differentiate between one's own perspective and someone else's perspective.

Three-Mountain Task

A cognitive test developed by Jean Piaget to measure egocentrism in children, involving the ability to see a set of mountains from different viewpoints.

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