Recovering From the Death of a Loved One

Source: Image by Chu Viết Đôn from PixabayFrom Grief to Growth: Coping StrategiesMarta Pereira et al. Coping strategies are important after the death of a loved one. They explain that active emotional coping involves expressing emotions or cognitive re-evaluations of stress, where avoidant emotional coping involves evading or suppressing emotional responses. Great Loss Often Prompts Great RecoveryUsing a community sample of 889 adults who had lost a loved one, Pereira et al. They note that their findings may be explained by the reality that problem-focused coping involves taking an active role in resolving the problem, and emotion-focused coping involves regulating the emotions related to the event.