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Is the Kübler-Ross model of grief (5 stages of grief) still considered valid?

I know it's been challenged by other research, but does the psychology community still generally accept it? Did it go the way of Freud?
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It is still fairly widely accepted as a valid model of grief.  The only major change involves the process of moving between stages.  When this model was proposed, it was understood that an individual progressed through the stages linearly, from 1 to 5, and then was "all better."  

We now know that, like so many other things, this is not a linear progression.  Individuals may progress through these stages in any order, or repeat stages, or skip stages.  They may even progress through all of them, "recover" from their grief, and then fall back into the process again.  Some people will progress through the stages quickly and some slowly.

So, nowadays it is less of a "road map" through grief and more of a framework to compare against.