Question

Since Ellen's wife Lillith died last year, Ellen has been working to get rid of her feelings of guilt over not spending more time with Lillith as well as adjust to living in the house by herself and taking over the responsibilities that Lillith had done with regards to housework and family. She has even begun to spend time volunteering at a nearby shelter and with friends again. According to the text, Ellen's experiences here would be considered to be an example of ________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Grief Work

Explanation:

Grief Work is a psychological concept, involving cognitive process of over coming through loss of death of any closely associated person. It denotes cognitive work on the events before & during the death time, attempting to focus on working for detachment from decreased.

Ellen's wife death & his guilts of not spending time with her, he managing the housework done by him, his volunteer efforts with friends at shelter house : all denote his efforts of overcoming over his wife's death & detaching himself for her memories. So, these experiences are an example of Grief Work