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Bereavement |
A state involving loss; a period of time when something has been taken away from someone. |
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Blended families |
the joining of two previously separated families. requires adjustment. |
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Charles Darwin re: Loss |
He commented that the separation reactions resulting from the loss of a loved one were innate. |
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Effects of divorce on children |
Power struggles and immaturity of parents causes suffering. Parents often need counseling. |
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
physician who developed the idea that people who have been diagnosed as terminally ill go through various stages as they mourn the loss. The five stages of grief. |
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What are the five stages of grief? |
Denial and Isolation Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance |
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Grief |
the feelings of sorrow and sadness that follow a loss. |
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John Bowlby |
Noted theorist in the area of attachment and separation; proposed four phases of mourning. |
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Loyalty issues |
issues experienced in a blended family when the children feel guilty for loving or bonding with a stepparent. worry that the natural paren will be angry or hurt. sometimes they are. crisis workers help children and natural parent come to terms with this. |
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Sigmund Freud re: mourning |
defined mourning as a periods of gradual withdrawal of libido from the now-missed loved object. |
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4 tasks of mourning - John Bowlby |
1. accepting the reality of the loss 2. experiencing the pain or grief 3. adjusting to an environment in which deceased is missing 4. withdrawing emotional energy from the deceased person and reinvesting it in another relationship or activity. |
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Mourning |
THE OVERT EXPRESSION OF GRIEF AND USUAL RESPONSE TO BEREAVEMENT.CULTURALLY INFLUENCED |
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INTERVENTIONfor those going through divorce |
GOAL IS TO HELP CLIENT GRIEVE JOURNAL, READ, SUPPORT GROUPS NORMALIZE EDUCATE about steps of grief |
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Best predictor of child's adjustment to divorce |
Custodial's adjustment to divorce |