Bereavement Flashcards
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Bereavement definition
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- State of loss resulting from death
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Definition of Grief
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- Emotional response to loss
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Definition of Mourning
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- Process of adaptation to loss
- cultural, social rituals
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Definition of anticipatory grief
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- Emotion that precedes death
- Expectation of loss
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Definition of pathological grief
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- Abnormal outcome
- psychological, social or physical morbidity
- includes complicated grief
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Definition of disenfranchised grief
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- Hidden sorrow for marginalized
- less social permission to express grief
- AIDS, very elderly
- stigma
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Attachment theory and grief
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- close effectionate bonds with others gives secruity and survival potential
- parents, spouse, child
- bonds of close relationship broked in death
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Psychodynamic theory
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- childhood experiences guide emotional experience in relationships
- mourning lifelong mehcanism to cope with trauma in life
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Interpersonal theory and grief
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- relational influences grief
- schemas of who the self is
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Psychosocial transition theory
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- loss results in changed world view
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Sociological model of bereavement
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- breaking of bonds in a relationship
- continuing bonds theory results in ongoing relationship with deceased
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Family Systems
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- family is unit of support
- family function or dysfunction determines outcome
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Characteristics of normal grief
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- somatic distress
- preoccupation with sad memories
- guilt
- anger
- loss of regular conduct
- identifcation with symptoms of deceased
- emotional distress in waves
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Anticipatory Grief presentation
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- periods of grief interspersed with contentment and happiness
- marker of risk for complicated grief
Clinician
- encourage open sharing of feelings
- saying goodnbye is a process
- create opportunities for remininsence, celebration, gratitude, life completion
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Acute Grief and time course of bereavement
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- intial numbness and unreality
- waves of distress
- phase of disorganization and loneliness
- phase of re organization and recovery
- nostalgia replaces sadness
- altered world view
- Time course proportional to the attachment
