Worden and Others Have Argued That Children Do Experience Grief

question 26

Essay

Worden and others have argued that children do experience grief and mourning, but have also maintained that children may not respond to loss or express their reactions as adults do. How would you explain these similarities and differences?

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Definitions:

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Attributional Theory

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Overload Theory

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