Adrian Ross

Introducing Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s “Stages of Grief” (Kubler-Ross, 1969, pp. 37-49) can provide tools with which help to identify and communicate feelings. Kubler-Ross’ model of the stages of grief begins with Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance, and can be applied to most circumstances involving loss (Torrey, 2016), such as divorce ( (Positive…

According to American Cancer Society (2016), stated that discovering or finding out that one has cancer problems conveys a lot of modifications for the patient and the loved ones, which brings a lots of questions that need to be answered, such as • Why me, • What have done to deserve this? • Did I cause my cancer? • Can it be cured? • Am I going to die? How do I cope? • What are the best treatment options? • Will treatment hurt or make me feel bad? • How long will treatment take? •…

Abnormal Grief. Many of the normal grief responses in a time of loss can become unhealthy and abnormal when they are prolonged (Shear, 2012). Abnormal grief can be displayed through worsening of anxiety disorders, negative health behaviors and tendencies towards suicide. Additionally, grief is often compounded when unresolved grief resurfaces with the advent of a current loss (Wright, 2011). Ideally, initial grief, no matter how painful, will evolve and become integrated into the new life of…

You presented an informative post regarding the application of Lamar and Kubler-Ross stages. Knowing that someone is counting his time to death is tragic. The concerned individual as well his/her family members and friends will need counselling to mitigate the emotion and shock they are experiencing during that terrible moment. As a hospice volunteer, I would rely on the theories of Lamar and Kubler-Ross to help myself, the dying individual, his relatives, and friends to comprehend what the…

Complicated grief happens to approximately 10-20% of bereaved persons and is described as a chronic heightened state of mourning (Khoshaba). When experiencing complicated grief one needs grief therapy not to be confused with grief counseling; in grief counseling you facilitate the bereaved person through the mourning tasks, while grief therapy you are identifying and resolving conflicts that are keeping you from successfully completing the mourning tasks. If a person is experiencing…

Ethics is a subject fully steeped in observation and informed speculation. It seeks to construct a sort of ‘outline’ to life, referencing interactions with self and others. Ethics, also referred to as moral philosophy, forces us to think about morality under a thousand different scopes. Many philosophers described endless theories; all in efforts to teach people how to live. Philosophers often ascribe to theories characterized by a group of interconnected ideals that result from a single, basic…

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…

Prigerson’s Work Third, Dr. Holly Prigerson, who is currently the Irving Sherwood Wright Professor of Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College, and the Professor of Sociology in Medicine, and Director, Center for Research on End-of-Life Care, has research and authored studies focused on prolonged grief disorder, religious influences on end-of-life care, and “psychosocial and behavioral influences on medical care and care outcomes for patients and families confronting life-threatening…

There is a dynamic duo that is always at work, never stopping for anyone, no matter how much it hurts. This duo is know as life and death, both are never ending cycles that can not be dismissed by anyone on this earth. No matter how powerful or weak we are, all living things must once die. So far my entire life consist of over thinking and questioning what it means to live and die. After losing my mother to Breast Cancer February 2 2016, I often found myself crying till my head started…

felt in many different circumstances such as during a divorce, moving away from a dear friend, or in any scenario where loss of the attached person, animal, or object occurs. (Kubler-Ross) Typically, mourning is associated with death. All people from all walks of life experience grief differently. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, a Swiss-American psychiatrist, made remarkable progress in the study of the mourning process when she published her five stages grief in the 1969 book “On Death and Dying”…