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Supporting The Bereaved

            Four Essential Steps to Copying with Grief.
             Nurses are often called on to help friends or relatives cope with grief or a situation in which a loved one was lost. We have to note that quite many nurses are unprepared to deal with those types of situations. The article lays out a four step method according to which helping a grieving person would be most productive. The first step has to do with allowing the bereaved come full face with the fact; spouses death, loss of something/someone important, etc. The second step focuses more on involving the whole family of the bereaved into the readjusting process and puts more emphasis on making the person understand the grief. The third step explained in the article discusses the need for readjustment. Basic daily tasks and establishment of a new social life are pinpointed. The fourth and final phase concentrates mostly on helping the grieving person understand that creating new relationships is a natural progression. .
             Four Essential Steps to Copying with Grief.
             The article discussed in the following paragraphs is essentially a must-read for everyone in the medical profession. Helping others deal with their problems and understanding other people's feelings and situations is fundamentally what the former field is all about. Situations involving grief and loss of a loved one are common. There is a compelling need to understand and learn how to handle delicate situations like the one described above at the nursing level of physical care.
             The former article has a strong psychological value due to the nature of the nursing profession. In many cases a need arises to comfort a client at the immediate contact level before a specialist has a chance to work with him/her. The main benefit of the article is depicted as providing the nurse with basic psychological skills needed to handle a fragile situation in which someone's grief might handicap the basic procedures that the nurse has to perform on the client.


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1. Children and the Loss of a Parent

Current research on parental bereavement have associated poor health conditions such as depression symptoms, low self-confidence, low academic qualifications and poor family support in bereaved young adults. ... Lack of support from her elder sister also created an overall feeling of rejection and isolation by the society. ... Additionally, from the focus group discussion, the extent of support from social and institutional affiliation upon parent bereavement had significant impact on the bereaved young adults. ... The continuous suffering maybe avoided through integration of appropriate socia...

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2. Personality and Bereavement

If these symptoms were present before the death, the bereaved report an increase in occurrences after the death. ... Prolactin levels decrease when a person has sleeping problems, a common complaint of the bereaved (Lane et al., 2007). ... Bereaved individuals, both male and female, have a different physical reaction to depression. Depressed bereaved individuals have an increased heart rate and decreased heart rate variability (HRV) compared to non-bereaved depressed people. ... The negative correlation between depression and HRV in bereaved individuals may explain the increase in heart disea...

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3. How people cope with Grief and Loss

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4. Copying With Grief

The first step has to do with allowing the bereaved come full face with the fact; spouses death, loss of something/someone important, etc. The second step focuses more on involving the whole family of the bereaved into the readjusting process and puts more emphasis on making the person understand the grief. ... Manifestations of denial and a feeling of a need to "not let go" are common, "the person who cannot accept that fact is manifesting denial and is stuck- (Gifford & Cleary, 1990), but there are methods that let the aide comfort the bereaved and help him open up about the loss. ... Re...

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5. Role of Social Support in Old Age

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6. September 11

As shock fades into anguished recognition and social support slowly withdraws, the bereaved may find that the hardest days of their lives still lie ahead. ... The second year also brings greatly diminished social support. ...

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7. Bereavement, Loss and Grief

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8. Edgar Allan Poe's Poetry

The recurring theme of death in Poe's poetry, especially the death of a beautiful young woman is supported by strange morbid settings, a dreamlike, gloomy atmosphere and repetitive wording and sounds. ... As stated in his "Philosophy of Composition": ...the death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably The most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover (1850). ... One of the speakers in "Lenore," her bereaved lover, Guy De Vere, is informed of her death by an unknown speaker. ...

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9. Management of maternity

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