Thanatology 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Socalled, Natural Disaster, Prolonged Grief Disorder
2 Oct 2016
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Chapter 9 coping with loss & grief. We form attachments to enrich our lives. In so doing, we put ourselves at risk of encountering loss. Secondary losses: those that follow from a primary loss. Primary losses: the termination of close attachments or relationships. Losses that are not related to death. The term bereavement identifies the objective situation of individuals who have experienced a loss of some person or thing they valued. Among many possible losses, we most often use the word bereavement to identify a loss associated with death. 3 essential elements in all bereavement: a relationship or attachment with some person or thing that is valued, the loss ending, termination, separation of that relationship, an individual who is deprived of the valued person or thing by the loss. The term that indicates one"s reactions both internally & externally to loss. Grief can be experienced & expressed in numerous ways: physically, emotionally (through feelings, cognitively (through thoughts, behaviorally, socially, spiritually.
