Hipertexto Familia y Enfermedad

- FAMILY AND SICKNESS
- Familia y Enfermedad
  - Objetivo de la Unidad de Aprendizaje
  - Contenido Temático
  - Destinatario
  - Sugerencia de Uso
  - Software Necesario
  - Sugerencia para Visualizar
- Introducción
- Objetivos de Aprendizaje
- Metodología
- Evaluación
- Requisitos
- Hypertext Family and Sickness: Developing Reading Strategies
  - Introduction
  - Activities Structure
  - Objectives
- Unit I: Family
  - Features of the Family
  - Integrative Activity
  - Learning Reflexion
- Unit II: Results and Processes
  - Resielence
  - Integrative Activity
  - Learning Reflexion
- Unit III: Sickness and Health
  - Grief and Mourning
  - Integrative Activity
  - Learning Reflexion
- Bibliography

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# Grief and Mourning

| Instructions: Read the following text "Loss, Grief, and Bereavement " and answer the questions below choosing V if the sentence is True or F if it is False.

Loss, Grief and Bereavement

People cope with the loss of a loved one in many ways. For some, the experience may lead to personal growth, even though it is a difficult and trying time. There is no right way of coping with death. The way a person grieves depends on the personality of that person and the relationship with the person who has died. How a person copes with grief is affected by the person's cultural and religious background, coping skills, mental history, support systems, and the person's social and financial status.

The terms grief, bereavement, and mourning are often used in place of each other, but they have different meanings.

Grief is the normal process of reacting to the loss. Grief reactions may be felt in response to physical losses (for example, a death) or in response to symbolic or social losses (for example, divorce or loss of a job). Each type of loss means the person has had something taken away. As a family goes through a cancer illness, many losses are experienced, and each triggers its own grief reaction. Grief may be experienced as a mental, physical, social, or emotional reaction. Mental reactions can include anger, guilt, anxiety, sadness, and despair. Physical reactions can include sleeping problems, changes in appetite, physical problems, or illness. Social reactions can include feelings about taking care of others in the family, seeing family or friends, or returning to work. As with bereavement, grief processes depend on the relationship with the person who died, the situation surrounding the death, and the person's attachment to the person who died. Grief may be described as the presence of physical problems, constant thoughts of the person who died, guilt, hostility, and a change in the way one normally acts.

Bereavement is the period after a loss during which grief is experienced and mourning occurs. The time spent in a period of bereavement depends on how attached the person was to the person who died, and how much time was spent anticipating the loss.

Mourning is the process by which people adapt to a loss. Mourning is also influenced by cultural customs, rituals, and society's rules for coping with loss.

Grief work includes the processes that a mourner needs to complete before resuming daily life. These processes include separating from the person who died, readjusting to a world without him or her, and forming new relationships. To separate from the person who died, a person must find another way to redirect the emotional energy that was given to the loved one. This does not mean the person was not loved or should be forgotten, but that the mourner needs to turn to others for emotional satisfaction. The mourner's roles, identity, and skills may need to change to readjust to living in a world without the person who died. The mourner must give other people or activities the emotional energy that was once given to the person who died in order to redirect emotional energy.

People who are grieving often feel extremely tired because the process of grieving usually requires physical and emotional energy. The grief they are feeling is not just for the person who died, but also for the unfulfilled wishes and plans for the relationship with the person. Death often reminds people of past losses or separations. Mourning may be described as having the following 3 phases:

- The urge to bring back the person who died.
- Disorganization and sadness.
- Reorganization.

Grief and the phases of a life-threatening illness
Understanding how other people cope with a life-threatening illness may help the patient and his or her family prepare to cope with their own illness. A life-threatening illness may be described as having the following 4 phases:

1. Phase before the diagnosis.
2. The acute phase.
3. The chronic phase.
4. Recovery or death.

1. The phase before the diagnosis: The phase before the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness is the period of time just before the diagnosis when a person realizes that he or she may develop an illness. This phase is not usually a single moment, but extends throughout the period when the person has a physical examination, including various tests, and ends when the person is told of the diagnosis.

2. The acute phase: The acute phase occurs at the time of the diagnosis when a person is forced to understand the diagnosis and make decisions about his or her medical care.

3. The chronic phase: The chronic phase is the period of time between the diagnosis and the result of treatment. It is the period when a patient tries to cope with the demands of life while also undergoing treatment and coping with the side effects of treatment. In the past, the period between a cancer diagnosis and death usually lasted only a few months, and this time was usually spent in the hospital. Today, people can live for years after being diagnosed with cancer.

4. The recovery or death phase: In the recovery phase people cope with the mental, social, physical, religious, and financial effects of cancer.
In the final (terminal) phase of a life-threatening illness occurs when death is likely. The focus changes from curing the illness or prolonging life, to providing comfort and relief from pain. Religious concerns are often the focus during this time.

### Pregunta 1

There is just one way people cope with the loss of a loved person.

Verdadero Falso

#### Retroalimentación

Falso

People cope with the loss of a loved one in many ways

### Pregunta 2

A loss means the person has had something taken away.

Verdadero Falso

#### Retroalimentación

Verdadero

### Pregunta 3

Physical reactions can include anger, guilt, anxiety, sadness, and despair.

Verdadero Falso

#### Retroalimentación

Falso

Mental reactions can include anger, guilt, anxiety, sadness, and despair

### Pregunta 4

Bereavement may be described as the presence of Physical problems, constant thoughts of the person who died, guilt, hostility, and a change in the way one normally acts.

Verdadero Falso

#### Retroalimentación

Falso

Grief may be described as the presence of physical problems, constant thoughts of the person who died, guilt, hostility, and a change in the way one normally acts

### Pregunta 5

Grief is the process by which people adapt to a loss.

Verdadero Falso

#### Retroalimentación

Falso

Mourning is the process by which people adapt to a loss.

### Pregunta 6

Mourning is influenced by cultural customs, rituals, and society's rules for coping with loss.

Verdadero Falso

#### Retroalimentación

Verdadero

### Pregunta 7

Mourning may be described as having the following 3 phases: Phase before the diagnosis, The acute phase, The chronic phase.

Verdadero Falso

#### Retroalimentación

Falso

Mourning may be described as having the following 3 phases: The urge to bring back the person who died, Disorganization and sadness, Reorganization.

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