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The death of a loved one is a significant event that everyone experiences. An individual's social environment, including societal and familial cultural factors, may influence how an individual approaches death or grieves the loss of someone else who dies. You can anticipate addressing grief in your social work practice and, therefore, should develop an understanding of the grieving process.
Two models of grieving—the Kubler-Ross and Westburg models—identify stages through which an individual progresses in response to the death of a loved one. Understanding the various ways individuals cope with grief helps you to anticipate their responses and to assist them in managing their grief. Select one model of grieving—the Kubler-Ross or Westburg model—to address in this assignment.
Addressing the needs of grieving family members can diminish your personal emotional, mental, and physical resources. In addition to developing strategies to assist grieving individuals in crisis, you must develop strategies that support self-care.
In this Assignment, you apply a grieving model to work with families in a hospice environment and suggest strategies for self-care.
- Explain how you, as a social worker, might apply the grieving model you selected to your work with families in a hospice environment.
- Identify components of the grieving model that you think might be difficult to apply to your social work practice. Explain why you anticipate these challenges.
- Identify strategies you might use for your own self care as a social worker dealing with grief counseling. Explain why these strategies might be effective.
Support your Assignment with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.
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Introduction
Grief is generally considered as the way a person cope with a situation of loss. In life,
individuals experience losses of their friends, family members and above, all their loved ones.
Other causes of grief include cases such as losses of jobs, friendship breakups, failure in personal
dreams or loss of a romantic relationship. Such situations and relationships result in individuals
experiencing grief. There exist signs such as having suicidal thoughts and experiencing
depressions that affect the individual normal being.
A grieving person always shows emotional signs such as; being numb, showing
bitterness, impartiality with prolonged sadness moods, and physical signs such as continued
headaches, fatigue, and digestive issues (Kübler-Ross, & Kessler, 2014). Here, we will discuss
stages a person undergoes in grief involving the death of their loved ones, the bereavement type
of grief. In order to relieve oneself or respond to grief, individuals have to undergo progressive
stages which are discussed in two main grieving models, Kubler-Ross, and Wesburg models. In
this assignment, a focus is given on Kubler-Ross’s stages through which individuals must
progress in response to cope with grief.
Kubler-Ross Grieving Model
Psychologists and researchers such as Kubler-Ross developed models of grief illustrating
stages individuals must experience in the grieving process. In 1969, there was the estab...
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