Eakes, Burke, and Hainsworth’s Middle-Range Theory of Chronic Sorrow is an attempt to explain how people react to ongoing losses, as well as single event losses, using a visual model to represent their theory. They theorists explain that chronic sorrow is a cyclical event that will continue as long as the figure that created the loss in the first place still exists. Moreover, although the person experiencing chronic sorrow experiences periods of non-sorrow and moves on with their lives, the grief is likely to consistently return, and the theorists interpret this ongoing experience as a normal response towards an abnormal…
Many memoirs about the Holocaust were published by Holocaust survivors. There are countless videos, books, and articles telling over the stories of those that survived and perished during the war. Many of these works show the heroism of many people to save relatives, others and themselves. Some of these people were non-Jews hiding and helping those in need. Many Jews helped their fellow brothers in whatever way possible, many times risking their own lives.…
Review Anticipatory Grief: A Concept Analysis Aim. This article is a report of a concept analysis of anticipatory grief in nursing discipline. Background. The increase of the importance and demand of hospice care requires healthcare professionals to provide better care services for family caregivers of hospice patients. One of their emotional challenges is grief.…
Mourning takes place as a response to an individual own illness, the loss of a relationship, or the death of a valued individual or possession. Normal grief can be divided on five different stages. During bereavement, the individual spends various lengths of time moving through each step and therefore expresses each stage with different levels of intensity. These five stages of grief do not necessarily take place in a specific order.…
“You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.” Said Finley, a boy who literally escaped his thoughts and accomplished his goals, speaks these words in the young adult novel, Boy 21, by Matthew Quick. In the novel, Finley, a senior starting basketball player in high school, faces the challenge in mentoring Russ, an amazing basketball player, after he loses himself when his parents die. Finley is quiet and doesn’t speak much to anybody, because his mother died when he was younger, and he’s always been the quiet type. That’s one of the reasons his coach thinks he’d be a good fit to mentor Russ.…
There have been many theories surrounding loss and bereavement since Sigmund Freud pioneered the study of mourning, however it is only in the last 30 or so years that we have have truly begun to recognise how profoundly grief can affect our physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioural, sexual and spiritual well being, and how greatly it can vary in length and disruptiveness. By properly supporting individuals through grief we can alleviate the possibility of future health problems. Whilst personal experience and intuition are important tools they can have major limitations as a basis of understanding; thus when professionals are involved in supporting the bereaved, they need a knowledge base from which to practise and scientific knowledge provides a particularly solid base; this is where bereavement models come in. I have chosen to compare five models of bereavement: 'Stages and Phases', 'Tasks for the bereaved', 'Dual process model', 'Continuing bonds' and 'Families making sense of death'.…
Often people feel anticipatory grief when they know someone they care about is seriously ill. Anticipatory grief refers to the normal mourning that occurs when a patient or family is expecting a death. Anticipatory grief has many of the same symptoms as those experienced after a death has occurred. It includes all of the thinking, feeling, cultural, and social reactions to an expected death that are felt by the patient and family. It includes depression, extreme concern for the dying person, preparing for the death, and adjusting to changes caused by the death.…
The beginning stages of grief starts with denial and isolation. Since the body is in complete shock of the pain, your mind puts you into denial to try to cover up the reality of the situation. In all honesty, who wants to feel all of the…
Beah came so close to reuniting with his family, but time was not in his favor. Beah is traveling on the outskirts of villages where he meets a man named Ngot Gasemu who explains that his family is in the village down the hill. Ismael is overwhelmed with joy and starts going towards the village but then gunshots are followed by screams and cries. Once the gunshots ended, Beah went to the village to see that is was on fire and he could not find his family. He became overwhelmed with anger hit Gasemu right on his nose (94-96).…
Describe the Situation: Grief is an individual’s natural coping mechanism when dealing with the loss of someone/something no longer in their life. As portrayed by Heart to Heart Hospice, “grief is the natural way we cope with loss” (When You Are Grieving, 2013). Heart to Heart Hospice, located in Indiana, Michigan and Texas, is a hospice agency that provides services for individuals with incurable illnesses and their loved ones. To obtain contact information, services provided or local agencies visit their website HearttoHeartHospice.com. The twenty-six Heart to Heart Hospice locations offers nursing and physician care, social services, occupational and speech therapy, homemaker services and pain management control to individuals with terminal…
Statement of the Problem: Military members and Veterans have unique end-of-life issues which impact and often complicate grief and bereavement. It is imperative that nursing faculty train and develop nursing students to meet the needs facing our nation as current conflicts draw down, our nation’s Heroes return to their hometown, and ultimately face end-of-life issues. The specific war (Vietnam, WWII, Korea, Gulf War, OEF/OIF) and perceived acknowledgement by the healthcare professional can impact the Veteran and/or caregiver’s sense of pride and shame; impacting their sense of grief/ bereavement. The grief experience may be impacted if death is experienced as a result of injury or loss associated with Veteran military service. Health care providers…
The heartbreaking moment of a phone call or face to face conversation that brings tears to the eyes faster than a jet plane. The heartbreaking moment when we hear about a tragic loss of peer, teammate, or even a family member that makes us become speechless with an abundance of emotions. According to McDowell (2016), “Death is never easy. And the death of a young person is especially heartbreaking and traumatic.”…
Grief is a normal response to a stressful event that occurs in a person’s life. Many people experience grief after a major life change such as death of a loved one, divorce, or the loss of financial security. There is no timeline for the recovery of this emotional state, as everyone copes with stressors in their own personal way. However, it is thought by six months in the normal grieving process a person has attained adequate coping mechanisms. Complicated grief usually stems from a mental health condition that continuously worsens over time.…
Grief and Loss Loss is a necessary and essential experience in human life. As we grow we abandon our favorite objects, like toys or a blanket, we say goodbye to places and people, we are giving up on teenage dreams and hopes of becoming famous artists or performers. These experiences allow us to change, develop, fulfill, and explore our potential. Therefore, loss is not always beneficial, some losses are more difficult to accept than others, and they can be devastating. The emotional response to debilitating loss refers to grief or bereavement which involves life’s changes, the way a person thinks, feels, and expresses themselves.…
“Shock symptoms can be pre-empted to some extent by taking the person to a place where they can safely hear the news. Especially if they are likely to move swiftly into more emotive stages, they will need to be in a private place, away from the embarrassment of public tears, and in the company of trusted friends or family” (“The Kubler-Ross Grief…