or a guaranteed-substantive post, reply to this post with the results of your Google hunt.

There is a lot of talk about “the stages of grief,” and while there is an accepted list of five stages it is by no means the only model. What is another model for understanding and processing grief that doesn’t use the five-stage model? Find one on Google, summarize it in your reply with the link pasted, and give in a sentence or two what you like or don’t like about this model.

The stages of grief are incredibly important, because we all experience them–knowing a bit more about them can help our patients and ourselves.