Health Sciences 4710A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dsm-5, Infertility, Headache
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Loss: the removal of something or someone meaningful from an individual"s life. Bereavement: the state of being deprived or having lost something meaningful. Mourning: is the way in which the individual expresses grief, as influenced by society, culture, religion, and the individual"s experience. Is the removal of something or someone meaningful from the individual"s life: loss is a part of life, major loss. Loss of something or someone in a person"s life in which the person was emotionally invested. Demographic trends of loss: with the increase in life expectancy you are exposed to more, change, transition (the grieving procsess allows us to transition and incorporate. What is it: assumptions or beliefs we have that give sense of reality and meaning. It"s how we expect the world to work: how we expect others should be. It"s our view of ourselves in relation to the world and others.