MH Test 3

Elizabeth kubler Ross

6 stages:

• Stage 1: Denial

• Stage 2: Anger

• Stage 3: Bargaining

• Stage 4: Depression

• Stage 5: Acceptance

• Stage 6: Making Meaning

John Bowlby

4 stages:

• Stage 1: Numbness or protest

• Stage 2: Disequilibrium

• Stage 3: Disorganization and despair

• Stage 4: Reorganization

George Engel

5 Stages:

• Stage 1: Shock and disbelief

• Stage 2: Developing awareness

• Stage 3: restitution

• Stage 4: Resolution of the loss

• Stage 5: Recovery (obsession of loss is resolve

J. William Worden

4 Tasks:

• Task 1: Accepting reality of the loss

• Task 2: Processing the pain of grief

• Task 3: Adjusting to a world without the lost entity

• Task 4: Finding an enduring connection with the lost entity in the midst of embarking on a new life

Worden believed what?

people needed to complete the tasks to move on

Birth to age 2 years

Unable to understand death but can’t experience the feeling of loss and separation

Age 3 to 5 years

Have some understanding about death have difficulty distinguishing between fantasy and reality; believe death is reversible

Ages 6 to 9 years

Beginning to understand finality of death; difficult to perceive their own death; normal grief = regressive and aggressive behaviors

Ages 10-12

Understand that death is final, anger, guilt, and depression common; peer relationship and school performance may be disrupted

Adolescents

• Usually able to view death on an adult level

• Difficulty perceiving their own death

• May or may not cry, may withdraw

• May extort acting out behaviors

Elderly adults

• A time in life of the convergence of many losses

• May lead to bereavement overload

• Bereavement overload may result in depression