10. Grief and Family Systems Flashcards
Where do most significant losses occur?
Within the family unit
What does loss create?
An unbalanced homeostasis
What are the grief factors?
Role played by deceased
Communication patterns
Sociocultural factors
Who has a better support system and who takes the opportunity to attack and blame in an integrated family
Well integrated family has better support system
Less integrated family takes opportunity to attack and make guilty
Who created the Family Grief Tasks?
J William Worden
What are the Family Grief Tasks?
- Open and honest communication
- Appropriate rituals
- Recognition of unique grief experiences
- Recognition of role reassignment
- Reinvest in “new family”
- Sense of connection with the deceased
- Meaning making
What is important to remember with the death of a child?
- Very difficult loss
- Could result in complicated grief
- Strong feelings of guilt
- Need to blame someone
- Different grief experiences for parents
- Gender differences
- Divorce
- Need to have a “replacement child”
- Strong feelings
What are the 5 types of guilt parents feel after the loss of a child?
- Cultural Guilt
- Casual Guilt
- Moral Guilt
- Survival Guilt
- Recovery Guilt
Who do parents usually blame after the loss of a child?
Spouse or doctors
What is the rate of divorce of parents after the loss of a child?
High, especially the fresher the marriage
What is a replacement child?
A child that a family has after losing one, as to replace the deceased child
Cases an identity crisis
What are things to remember with the death of a grandparent?
- Sometimes overlooked by society
- Disenfranchised grief
- Unacknowledged loss
- Lack of social support
When and Who created Disenfranchised Grief
1989
Doka
What is disenfranchised grief?
When you can’t connect the pain with anyone
Feeling lonely
What’s important to know about children whose parents have died?
- Children may fail to adequately mourn
- Later may present symptoms of depression
- Inability to form close relationships as adults
- Debate over children mourning
- Model mourning that fits children
- Emotional reaction of separation (separation anxiety)
- Concept of family may change drastically
