Which truism will the nurse base spousal grief counseling upon?
a. Men are less likely to grieve the loss of a spouse.
b. Women carry deeper attachments to their spouses than men do.
c. Women are generally more likely to out-live their spouses.
d. The male response to grief has been thor-oughly studied and documented.
ANS: C
Three out of four women will be widowed at some point because women tend to live longer than men and frequently marry older men. There is no evidence that men grieve less than women; men and women grieve in different manners. It has not been found to be true that women carry at-tachments to their spouses that are less deep than men's attachments. Male response to grief has not been studied as thoroughly as that of women; the abundance of literature on this topic deals with women.
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