The most effective time to teach clients who have sustained a sudden, traumatic, major loss is most often during the acceptance or adaptation stage of coping. The rationale for this fact is that clients in this stage are:a) Ready for discharge and therefore in need of preparationb) At the peak of mental anguish and therefore open to changec) Less angry and therefore more compliant and more receptived) Less anxious and more aware of reality and therefore ready to learn