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    Grief is an emotion we all experience in our life. Grief is the emotional response to the pain of a loss. It i s the reflection of a connection that has been broken.(Kubler& Ross 2005). Most important, grief is an emotional, spiritual, and psychological journey to healing. (Kessler & Kubler-Ross 2005). In our childhood we realize at some point we will die, and not only will we die but those around us will die someday too. This is the beginning of anticipatory grief, Fear of the unknown…

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    Grief and Mourning Depression and suicidality in clients who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia is common. Often, the depression associated with schizophrenia causes an individual to withdraw socially and to disengage from services (Wittman and Keshavan, 2007). In research by Kim, Jayathilake and Meltzer (2003) it was discovered that one of the major contributors to depression and suicidality is hopelessness. Following that were substance abuse, insight into the individual’s illness,…

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    While reading The Management of Grief by Baharati Mukherjee, I noticed a couple different themes throughout. The main theme that caught my attention was having hope. In this short story, the main character Shaila loses her husband and two sons in a terrorist attack that left a whole plane full of people dead. Shaila has to come to an acceptance that her family is gone and move on. This theme is portrayed in the characters, Shaila and Judith Templeton the most, them being polar opposites. Shaila…

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    Management of Grief” by Bharati Makherjee is a story that reveals a major change of the main character, Shaila bhave, who attempts to manage her grief throughout the story. Even though the main character seems to have managed her grief by the end of the story, the pressure of her losses is still very significant and she can't help from recalling her tragic losses of her husband and two sons in the result of the explosion. She pretends to manage her grief but in the bottom of her heart, her grief…

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    returning, and at disliking many things. When I asked for more family information, I was told Holden’s little brother died of leukemia at the age of 11 which was 3 years ago. This leads me to believe that Holden could be suffering from grief and perhaps another…

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    Grief Therapy Intervention

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    Grief Therapy Intervention Shanita Dopson SOWK 617: Dr. Mathews Salisbury University Introduction Grief is fundamentally an emotional response to death and loss, such as loneliness, fear, sadness, anxiety, anger, mistrustfulness, guilt, etc. (Barbato & Irwin, 1992). Apart from emotional disturbances, physical symptoms, such as tight feelings in the throat and chest, oversensitivity to noise, breathlessness, muscular weakness and lack of energy are responses of grief (Barbato &…

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    Introduction My focus for my practice based-problem is interventions that reduce complicated bereavement symptoms that could result in major depression and complicated grief for elderly widows coping with spousal loss. For most middle-aged and older individuals, the death of a husband or wife is one of the most distressing life events (Wilcox et al., 2003). As a result, widowhood could lead to economic and health problems such as poverty, alcoholism, and high blood pressure (Wilcox et al.,…

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    In her story, The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold illustrates the idea of dealing with grief by forcing the reader to suffer with Susie and her broken family. The death of a loved one can sometimes cause a person to experience the five stages of grief, and as a result, the person accepts loss and moves on. As Susie remains in the “in-between”, the five stages of grief are shown through each member of Susie’s family throughout the story as they try to cope with the tragedy of her death. Jack Salmon,…

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    The Lovely Bones There are two main themes that are continually being presented throughout the novel “The Lovely Bones”, these themes are grief and hope. This essay will analyze how different individuals from the Salmon family cope with the death of a family member and their way of advancing with their lives. Losing someone close to you is tough, especially if it’s a family member. Abigail Salmon is the mother of Susie that she loses early in the novel. This has affected her actions and way of…

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    Case Study: Adolescent Grief Compare the anticipatory grief John experienced in the movie “Iris” with the grief from the sudden death experienced by Brenda and her parents. In comparison to Brenda and her parents, John was able to begin grieving the loss of the wife he knew prior to her physically passing. Unlike John, Brenda and her parents had no warning signs. Therefore, the family was not given the opportunity to knowingly say final goodbyes or “I love you” one last time. Although each of…

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