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Lesson 12 Identify several healthy ways to cope with loss or grief. Why do you think feelings of loss and grief intensify during holidays? Look at page 125. Answer questions 1 & 2 after analyzing the graph.

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Page 1: Lesson 12 Identify several healthy ways to cope with loss or grief. Why do you think feelings of loss and grief intensify during holidays? Look at page

Lesson 12

Identify several healthy ways to cope with loss or grief.

Why do you think feelings of loss and grief intensify during holidays?

Look at page 125. Answer questions 1 & 2 after analyzing the graph.

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Death and Dying

Is it wrong to think about death? Why?

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Does everyone live to an old age?

Has anything happened recently?

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Where do we hear about death on a daily basis?

Can we be sheltered from death until we are old?

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Questions

Who has to deal with loss or death?

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Where can you get help?

Children And Grief | American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Welcome to the American Counseling Association

Home - American Hospice FoundationGriefNet

- A Community of Persons Dealing With Grief, Death, and Major [email protected]

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More websites

mental illness, mental health information center

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What are the stages of death?

Denial – not meAnger- what did I do to deserve this?Bargaining- please if I just do….DepressionAcceptance

Not linear or sequentialBased on study of people who were dying

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Stages of Grief

1. Denial, shock, disbelief

2. Despair, numbness, guilt, sadness

3. Recovery and resolution

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We are all survivors of loss

JobLove relationshipFriendshipA roleReputationConnection to our past

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What causes the most grief?

Loss of a close relationship More intense reaction

One of the best ways to cope is by telling our story so that we integrate the loss in a new way. We don’t get over the loss, we find a different “place” for it.

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Symptoms

Sporadic thoughts Behavior changes Tightness of throat Shortness of breath Sick to stomach Insomnia Change in appetite/

weight loss irritable

Anxiety Fear Confusion Preoccupation with

loss Sadness Guilt Anger crying

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Grief- reaction to loss

Triggers of Grief Scents Music Holidays

Mourning- process a bereaved person integrates loss into life

Bereavement- event of a loss

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What does death mean?

Heart stoppedBrain stoppedBreathing stoppedWhat about persistent vegetative state?

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Promote Mental and Emotional Health

Express feelings in a healthy wayEngage in activities that are mentally and

emotionally healthyPrevent and manage conflict and stress in

healthy waysUse self-control and impulse-control

strategies to promote health

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Promote Mental and Emotional Health

Seek help for troublesome feelingsBe empathetic toward othersCarry out personal responsibilitiesEstablish and maintain healthy

relationships