What Are the Steps or Stages of Grief Response?
Grief, a natural response to loss, occurs in different stages. Dr. Elisabeth Kubler identified five stages of grieving in her book, “On Death and Dying,” published in 1969 and based on her work with terminally ill patients in Chicago. Not all people go through each stage during a period of grieving, and the order varies among people. Medline Plus, a National Institutes of Health Resource, recommends that people respect and embrace the different stages of grief as they experience them, rather than prevent or change them.