25 - Loss and Grief Flashcards
Necessary losses
things come and go and loss is based on the attatchment
Losses that are replaced by something different or better, natural and positive part of life. Examples: child leaves home to go to college, leaving behind family and friends to go on and make new friends and begin a career.
Actual loss
loss of person or thing that can no longer be felt (loss of limb, job, toy)
Perceived loss
loss of unique to person dealing with it. Loss that they are percievign to themselves
Examples: 4.0 students attending nursing school and receiving a much lower letter grade than they are used to, due to grading scale.
Maturational loss
change related to development (empty nesting)
Situational loss
sudden or unpredictable (accident, natural disaster)
Grief
Grief is an emotional response to a loss or a death.
Each individual responds to loss differently and, therefore, grieves at an individual pace and pattern.
Bereavement
Includes grief and mourning
The state of having lost a significant other to death
Non linear process.
Ring on finger: at first you very notice it but over time you get use to it and don’t feel it, but the ring “loss” is still there
Grief describes the response to any type of loss. Bereavement is grief that involves the death of a loved one.
Normal grief
healthy giref
Anticipatory grief
letting go in advance of actually loss, may decrease grief later when loss actually occurs
Complicated grief
grief that extends beyond whats acceptable and has 4 kinds
Chronic grief
unabe to get past the grief and you are always in the grieving stage
Chronic Grief
Strong grief reactions that do not subside and last over a long period of time. Continually experiencing extreme distress over the loss with no progress towards feeling better or improving functioning.
Delayed grief
delayed normal reaction
the emotional pain from loss is repressed or put on a shelf so to speak, to be dealt with at a later time.
Exaggerated grief
grief that overwhelms to the point that the person isn’t functioning
elt through the intensification of normal grief responses. This intensification has a tendency to worsen as time moves on. This may result in self-destructive behaviour, suicidal thoughts, drug abuse, abnormal fears, nightmares, and even the emergence of underlying psychiatric disorders.
Masked grief
behaviours by the griever that interfer with normal functions and the person is unaware of these behaviorus
grievers do not admit their grief, and end up suffering other symptomology.
Disenfranchised grief
greif that can’t be expressed or acknowledged due to stigmitization
