Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
4 results found in Grief.
- Ambiguous Loss
- Ambiguous loss, a concept articulated by Pauline Boss, is 'a situation of unclear loss that remains unverified and thus without resolution'. Boss distinguishes two types: physical loss where someone i…
- Continuing Bonds
- Continuing bonds is a theory of grief, developed by Klass, Silverman and Nickman in the 1990s, which holds that healthy mourning often involves maintaining an ongoing relationship with a deceased or a…
- Disenfranchised Grief
- Disenfranchised grief, a concept developed by Kenneth Doka, describes the experience of people who 'incur a loss that is not, or cannot be, openly acknowledged, publicly mourned or socially supported'…
- Griefbot (Deadbot)
- A griefbot (sometimes 'deadbot') is an AI chatbot trained on the written, voice or video communications of a deceased person, intended to let bereaved loved ones continue a simulated dialogue with the…