Thanatology 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Prolonged Grief Disorder, Thanatology, Late-Onset Hypogonadism

• School: Western University
• Department: Thanatology
• Course: Thanatology 2200
• Professor: Eunice Gorman

Document Summary

Occurs following some type of violent loss, parental bereavement after the loss of a child is considered traumatic. Personal long-term care of a dying person. Note: when this grief is left untreated, it can result in long-lasting personality characteristics affecting the co-victims mood, capacity to form healthy support systems, capacity to relate intimately and maintain constancy in interpersonal relationships. When a patient enters into treatment, they have usually been living in state 1. Focus on the life of the victim as a separate individual. Still important to remember the victim prior to the trauma, done through co- victims development of a commemorative. Remember the relationship the co-victim had w/ the victim. Relationships usually have positive and negative elements, by helping the co- victim to experience both of these elements they can further separate themself from the victim and the trauma.