Which finding indicates successful completion of an individual's grieving process?
a. For 2 years after her husband's death, a widow has kept her husband's belongings in their usual places.
b. After 15 months, a widower realistically remembers both the pleasures and disappointments of his relationship with his wife.
c. Three years after her husband's death, a widow talks about her husband as if he is alive and weeps when others mention his name.
d. Eighteen months after a spouse's death, a person says, "I have never cried or had feelings of loss, even though we were very close.".
B
The work of grieving is over when the bereaved can remember the individual realistically and acknowledge both the pleasure and disappointments associated with the loved one. The individual is then free to enter into new relationships and activities. The other options suggest maladaptive grief.
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