ABSTRACT
The late 20th century witnessed the development of dozens of empirical instruments to measure the effects of grief on the well-being of bereaved individuals. While space does not allow a full examination of this multitude, author has noticed three instruments cited with significant regularity in the literature of bereavement research: the Texas Inventory of Grief, the Grief Experience Inventory, and the Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG). Novelists in every era have chosen the vagaries of grief to enliven their characters and to draw readers into the sentiment of the story. The Christian New Testament frequently references the experiences of death and loss, in spite of some contemporary Christians insisting that real faith makes grief unnecessary. During the era Worden was first articulating his theory of the grief process, Simon Rubin (1981) was developing the two-track model of bereavement. Moreover, most grief counselors would probably argue that most mourners would benefit from the services they offer.
