Heather's father died last week with Heather and many other family members with him as he died. Heather has been talking a lot about those last hours, how he met individually with each family member to express his love and gratitude and how, once he had met with everyone, he soon lapsed into unconsciousness. Muller and Thompson (2003) would say that this reflects the ____ theme of the experience of grief.
A) coping
B) affect
C) narrative
D) relationship

Question

Heather's father died last week with Heather and many other family members with him as he died. Heather has been talking a lot about those last hours, how he met individually with each family member to express his love and gratitude and how, once he had met with everyone, he soon lapsed into unconsciousness. Muller and Thompson (2003) would say that this reflects the ____ theme of the experience of grief.​
A) ​coping
B) ​affect
C) ​narrative
D) ​relationship

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The mention of Heather talking about the last hours of her father and how he met individually with each family member to express his love and gratitude suggests that she is constructing a narrative of the experience of grief, which is the narrative theme according to Muller and Thompson's model of grief. The coping theme would focus on how the individual copes with the loss, while affect would refer to the emotional response to the loss, and relationship would describe the attachment style of the bereaved.

Heather's Father Died Last Week with Heather and Many Other