The insightful question that Bonanno answered with the CLOC data was this: Does everyone’s adaptation trajectory during grieving look the same?1 If bereaved people were interviewed at six months and eighteen months after their loss, would everyone look the same, or would you be able to detect groups of people who fall into different patterns? In fact, in the CLOC study Bonanno and his colleagues found that there were four trajectories that could be used to categorize people’s grieving. These trajectories include resilient (those who never develop depression after the death of a loved one),
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