Ch. 25 in Foundations Book Flashcards
LOSS
When any aspect of self is no longer available to a person.
DEATH
Cessation of life
Universal in the human experience, but they are unique events to the individual.
GREIF
Is a pattern of physical and emotional response to bereavement, separation, or loss.
A natural response to loss.
Is the subjective response to actual or anticipated loss.
MORTALITY
(The condition of being subject to death) and other distressing issues that accident loss.
GRIEF THERAPY
( mental health treatment aimed at helping a patient deal with the pain of loss; a program that assists the bereaved to cope with a loss)
KÜBLER-ROSS
Denial: individual acts as though nothing has happened & may refuse to believe or understand loss has occurred.
Anger: individual resists the loss & may strike out at everyone & everything.
Bargaining: individual postpones awareness of reality of the loss & may try to deal in a subtle or overt way as though the loss can be prevented.
Depression: individual feels overwhelmingly lonely & withdrawals from interpersonal interaction.
Acceptance: individual accepts the loss & looks to the future.
Bowlby’s Phases of Mourning
A behavioral theory 4 stages
Numbing : individual describes phase as feeling “ stunned” or “ unreal.” It is a period of intense emotion that serves to protect the body from consequences off loss & last from a few hrs to a week or more.
Yearning & Searching: phase arouses acute distress in most people. Painful phase is characterized by physical symptoms such has tightness in the chest & throat, shortness of breath , a feeling of weakness, & lethargy, insomnia, & anorexia. Phase pay last for months or years.
Disorganization & Despair: individual endlessly examines how & why the loss occurred. It is a common time for person to express anger. Gradually phase gives way to an acceptance that loss is permanent.
Reorganization: individual begins to accept unaccustomed roles , acquire new skills, & build new relationships. Phase may last a year or more. Individual needs support to unlink self from the lost relationships.
Worden’s Tasks of Mourning
A behavioral theory 4 tasks
Accept reality of loss: There is always some period of disbelief & surprise over a loss. This task involves processes needed to accept that the person or object is gone & will not return.
Work through pain & grief: Emotional pain come as a natural part of loss. Individuals who deny or shut off the pain prolong their grief.
Adjust to environment In which the deceased is missing: Individual does not realize full impact of loss for at least 3 mos. at this point friends & associates stop calling , & the person is left prey to loneliness. Often the individual must take on role formerly filled by the deceased.
Emotionally relocate the deceased & move on with life: individual does not forget the deceased, however, must take a new, less prominent, place in a persons emotional al life. People dealing with this task fear they will forget their loved one.
ACTUAL LOSS
Identified easily, such as a woman who has a mastectomy.
PERCEIVED LOSS
The loss of confidence or when a woman who hopes to give birth to a female child delivers a male child instead, is less obvious.
Overlooked and misunderstood.
MATURATIONAL LOSS
A loss that results from normal life transitions.
e.g loss of childhood dreams, loss felt by an adolescent when romance fails, & the loss felt when leaving the family home for college or marriage & establishing a home of ones own.
SITUATIONAL LOSS
Defined as a loss that occurs suddenly in response to a specific external event, (e.g such as the sudden death of a loved one)
PERSONAL LOSS
Any significant loss that necessitates adaptation through the grieving process.
e.g. when something or someone can no longer be seen, felt, heard, known, or experienced, a sence of loss occurs.
GRIEF
Is the subjective response to actual or anticipated loss.
BEREAVEMENT
A common depressed reaction to the death of a loved one.
