Loss and Grief

Question 1

What factors can affect the grieving process?

Answer 1

• the way in which the person died
• nature of the relationship with the deceased
• FHx of death/bereavement
• personality/mental health/temperament of the deceased
• availability of support
• social/cultural/religious framework

Question 2

What are some commonly reported physical symptoms of grief?

Answer 2

SOB
Heightened sensitivity to noise
feeling of hollowness
lethargy and fatigue
muscle sches
loss of appetite

Question 3

What are some of the behavioural manifestations of grief?

Answer 3

sleep disturbances
withdrawal from social situations
searching for reminders of the deceased
restlessness

Question 4

Describe anticipatory grief

Answer 4

Grieving process that starts before someone has died - start to experience feeling of actual/perceived loss

Question 5

What is Bowlby’s Attachment theory?

Answer 5

Argues that attachments develops in early life and offer security and survival for the individual. When attachments are broken, they develop distress and emotional disturbances.

Question 6

What are Bowlby’s four phases of mourning?

Answer 6

Numbing
Yearning and searching
Disorganisation
Reorganisation

Question 7

What are the Kubler-Ross five stage of grief?

Answer 7

Denial
Anger
Depression
Bargaining
Acceptance

Question 8

What are the four Worden Tasks of Mourning?

Answer 8

Accept reality of loss
Work through pain of grief
Adjust to an environment in which the deceased is missing
Emotionally relocate the deceased and move on with life