The nurse is teaching a class on perinatal loss to student nurses. What would the nurse explain about the relationship between attachment and the grief response?
1. The mother has no attachment to the fetus before it is born.
2. The severity of the grieving has nothing to do with attachment to the fetus.
3. The intensity of the grief response can be assessed by determining the level of attachment to the anticipated infant.
4. The mother would feel grief only if it were a planned pregnancy.
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Explanation: 3. The intensity to which the grief will be experienced is best understood from the aspect of the level of attachment the grieving person had to the deceased and usually entails finding personal meaning in the loss for successful integration into the grieving person's life.
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