Grief from a Cross-Cultural Perspective

Sorrow is a multifaceted response to loss. It mainly focuses on the emotional response to loss, but it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social and philosophical implications. Dr. Elizabeth Cooper Ross announced his idea of ​​the sad stage of the 1969 book "Death and Death". Since then it has received many criticisms, but the Kübler-Rose model is still the most widely accepted mode of sadness today. However, the Kübler-Ross model may have cultural bias as most of the psychological studies done in the 20th century were based on people living in North America and Western Europe.

Different cultures mourn in different ways, but all cultures have important ways to deal with the deaths of loved ones. T. Glen Coughlin explained at the "Sadness Committee" the attitudes toward American family members' sorrow. This short story explores in detail how American culture responds to suffering and difficulties of sadness. (The story is taught in "Politics of mourning: management of sadness in intercultural fiction, Columbia University.") People with high cognitive disabilities such as intellectual disability can not handle the loss of the surrounding people There are people who think, but it is not a fact that people with cognitive disorders such as mental retardation can cope with sadness just like people without cognitive impairment.

Sadly, cultural beliefs play a destructive role in providing victims with greatly needed support. From an intercultural point of view, the people, of course, of life, death, their inner feelings, the factors that need these feelings, the ultimate cause of these feelings, the meaning of these emotions, these emotions Obtain expressions, reasons for these emotions, and techniques related to the solution; it may not be published directly. Several historical studies have shown that Western European people have different mourning