Young children may show disenfranchised grief most clearly. They may not have the experience to know how to grieve. Increasingly, the general public seems to be accepting grief as a universal and that it can be experienced with regard to many problems. Strong support for an individual's loss and grief is another matter. A case can be made that only in our own actions and with the help of a very small group of close others do we ever find strong support.
Individuals act as active agents in restoring equilibrium after traumatic events.
Proposes that coping is a process that extends across situations by resulting in general changes in coping resources, such as management skills. As such, coping can affect personality processes such as mastery and self-esteem. Both as a psychological and a legal concept closely linked to loss experiences. Surviving family members may believe that the loss of their loved one was unjust, whether that loss caused by intended violence, fate, disease, etc. Leads to derogation of victims.