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RE313
Final EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
RE313 – September 14th
Class 3 – Tasks of grieving a loss
• We’ve talked aout grief as a proess – something that we move through, or visit, or
walk with, or cycle through and revisit again and again
• How do we understand death?
• With death can come guilt: realistic and unrealistic
• One may feel relieved, and guilty that they feel relieved
• Emotions may be expressed physically rather than felt
• Anger can be present
• We can process death and loss by talking with friends, talking with a therapist, using
writing therapy (and other ways)
• What might be some tasks of grieving a loss?
• What might we expect? Is all grief the same?
• Bonanno: Chronic, recovery, resilience
• Freud Mourig ad elaholia 1917 agial thikig
• Sadness, anger, laughter
• Imagine grief: an oscillation, a wave, a fighter pilot dropping bombs
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RE313 – September 12th
Class 2 – Understanding death and the processes of grieving a loss
Bereavement
• Stearns p. 1 "to be dispossessed, to be robbed of something belonging to oneself"
• A period of mourning after a loss, something being taken away form you. An active state
• Something you do after a loss, something youlose
• Lose something extremely important to yourself
Grief
• our society may not provide a lot of outlets for someone to express grief in a socially
acceptable manner
• grief has been understood as a process that we move through: shock, disbelief, sadness,
anger (i.e. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)
• An uncontrollable sadness = a process we go through
• Something that never really ends but dissipates/changes
• Types of grief: anticipatory and ambiguous
• Delayed mourning: When we cat/do’t gie ourig grief the tie it eeds
o Not done with the stages: revisit them. Grief like and expanding spiral or cycle
o Can we put a time frame on grief?
• Society does not always provide outlets for someone to express grief
• There may be a type of mourning that happens before the body is gone
Anticipatory: When you know you’re to lose somebody/something. Changes the way you
handle grief.
• Anticipatory grief does not mean the grief hurts less
What types of loss can we experience?
• Ending/death of a relationship: separation, divorce
• Losing hair – losing a physical part of yourself –injury: loss of physical (c)abilities
• Shattered dream – loss of dreams/hopes
• End of friendship
• Loss of self – losing who you were/loss of home/loss of roots (geographic, etc)
• Loss of soeoe else due to Alzheier’s or deetia atiipatory
• Having to leave something behind (moving to a different country/culture due to work
etc)
• Loss of a certain conception of your future (i.e. diagnosed with illness)
• Financial loss
• Getting over an addiction/still dealing with cravings
• Loss of childhood – growing up, growing up too fast
• Losing freedom due to incarceration (realistic guilt, unrealistic guilt)
• epty est --- parents watching children grow and move along as adults
Death
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