HDFS 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Emotion, Shared Experience
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Unique context of the family impacts on how the family system responds families will be challenged by death in unique ways. Revisit the concepts of horizontal and vertical stressors. Their will always be other things going on that influence the experience of death. Modified by and contributes to the vertical stressors. The emotional legacies of the families that are carried throughout time funeral remembered individual ways. The historical legacy of a family determines how a family will react to death. How others reflect due to vertical stressors will be. Death impacts on family members in unique and. Ex. your father won"t go to his own father"s. Has to do with their relationship with the person who has died. How others around you respond to death influences how you develop. Death is different when it is in old age compared to when it is in youth. Family tasks in response to a death: shared acknowledgement of the reality of the death.