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DEALING WITH DEATH AND BEREAVEMENT - Coggle Diagram
DEALING WITH DEATH AND BEREAVEMENT
Thanatology: study of the phenomena of death from various perspectives, including physical, ethical, spiritual, medical, sociological, and psychological.
Hospice care: warm, personal, patient and family centered care for a person with a terminal illness
Palliative care: care to relieve pain and suffering and allowing the terminal ill to die in peace, comfort and dignity.
KUBLER - ROSS'S STAGES
Denial: Avoidance / confusion / elation / shock / fear
Anger: frustration / irritation / anxiety
Bargaining: overwhelmed / helplessness / hostility / flight
Depression: struggling to find meaning/ reaching out to others / telling one's story
Acceptance: exploring options / new plan in place / moving on
Bereavement: the process of adjusting to the loss of someone close
Grief: the emotional response experienced in the early phase of bereavement
CLASSIC GRIEF WORK MODEL (3 stages)
Shock and disbelief
Preoccupation with memory of dead person
Resolution
Grieving (3 patterns)
COMMONLY EXPECTED: mourner goes from high to low distress
ABSENT GRIEF: mourner does not experience distress immediately or later
CHRONIC GRIEF: mourner remains distress for a long time
UNDERSTANDING DEATH IN ADULTHOOD
YOUNG ADULTS: mortality at this stage can lead to frustration and rage
MIDDLE AGE: more acceptance of mortality
OLDER ADULTS HAVE MIXED FEELINGS: fear, denial, acceptance
HASTENING DEATH
ACTIVE EUTHANASIA: action was taken directly to shorten life
PASSIVE EUTHANASIA: withholding or discontinuing treatment
ADVANCE DIRECTIVE: durable power of attorney
ASSISTED SUICIDE: helping a person bring about self - inflicted death
METHODS OF LIFE REVIEW
writing or taping an autobiography
Constructing a family tree
looking over scrapbooks and old letters
Trips to childhood locations
reunions with friends and family