Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.
Bargaining: Just let me live to see my son Depression: I am so sad, why bother with
anything?
Freedom
According to Kubler-Ross a person
simultaneously experiences two of the stages at any given time.
and marks the beginning of an emotional and social reentry back into the everyday world (pp. 28-29).
Grief
Mourning Coping Interaction Psychosocial reorganization
Planning
Balancing conflicting demands Facilitating an appropriate death (p. 51)
suppressed, or postponed. A subsequent loss may elicit an exaggerated reaction because the bereaved is grieving for two losses. hopelessness, depression, or other symptoms become so excessive that they interfere with the daily existence of the bereaved. by a person who does not recognize the fact that these are related to a loss.
Case Study
Mr. and Mrs. B. have been married for 50 years. They have been in good health and have been enjoying retirement (traveling, seeing their grandchildren and sleeping until noon!) Both Mr. and Mrs. B. will be turning 70 this year and the family are planning a BIG surprise party.
One morning Mrs. B. wakes up and she can not move the left side of her body. Mr. B. calls an ambulance and the family physician. Mrs. B. is taken to the hospital.
Mr. B
Mrs. B Their family (all 30 people!) How will you, as the social worker, provide a therapeutic intervention that will meet their needs. Is meeting everyones needs possible or realistic?
Bibliography
Gehlert, S., & Browne, T.A. (2006). Handbook of Health Social Work. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Levine, S. (1982). Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying. New York: Anchor Books. Kubler-Ross, E. (1973). On Death and Dying. New York: Routledge. Kubler-Ross, E., and Kessler, D. (2005). On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss. New York: Scribner.