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anticipatory grief

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anticipatory grief,
feelings of grief that develop before, rather than after, a loss.


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When the home front costs and burdens fall repeatedly on the same shoulders, the anticipatory grief and trauma--secondary, intergenerational and betrayal--is exponential and increasingly acute.
Here, we can help them with anticipatory grief and to deal with the anger and resentment that they're feeling very nonjudgmentally.
BIBLIOGRAPHY BENFIELD, C 1996: Comparing the anticipatory grief response of mothers and fathers in a neonatal intensive care setting.
 
 
 
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