Grief Communication and Privacy Rules: Examining the Communication of Individuals Bereaved by the Death of a Family Member

Discussing grief can be uncomfortable for both the bereaved and the confidant, and bereaved individuals may seek to control how information about grief is shared. Bereaved college students who completed interviews about a family member’s death and their communication about grief indicated that they felt a strong need to control information and share and discuss the death according to their own and their families’ rules.