Impact of Guiding and Supporting Carers in Grieving Process

Project

Table of Contents
Introduction.........................................................................................................................................3
Background..........................................................................................................................................5
The influence of grieving process over the people.............................................................................5
The stage of grief after a death that faced by the people....................................................................6
The role of carers in handling people after grieving process..............................................................8
Research methodology........................................................................................................................8
Impact of Change................................................................................................................................9
Reflective Commentary.....................................................................................................................12
Leadership perspective......................................................................................................................13
Conclusion..........................................................................................................................................17
References..........................................................................................................................................18

Title: To investigate the impact of guiding and supporting carers at the time of grieving
process.
Introduction
The intensity and frequency of the grief differ from person to person. Sometimes it depends
on the conditions that affected the person to feel sadness. Besides example, the death of an
older adults, so while adored, relative often causes a different reaction than with the child's
death. For children who haven't seen a divorce come, this could be much more of a shock
than for a child who has witnessed daily parental arguments. It has been identified that
grieving process is one of the most important opportunity to effectively mourn a loss in an
appropriate manner and then heal it in a proper manner. This is the process which assist when an
individual person acknowledged grief, identify support and then get time for the grief to perform
its work (Moh and Manaf, 2014). In this regard, there are some stage of grief such as denial,
anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. In general, it is said that grief is a natural
emotional procedure arise because of someone death and loss. All these are the main sign of
grieving that affect the human health. In this, it is important for carers to effectively handle
and support people when they suffering from grieving. While it is conventionally based on
emotional reaction to loss, it even has physical, behavioural, emotional, social, economic,
religious and metaphysical aspects. All these elements needs to be considered by individuals
as they are the initial symptoms of grief which can cause the overall mental and physical
health of a person in a long run. Therefore, these factors need to be considered by healthcare
professionals as well as by the family members and not need to be ignored.
Although the concepts are mostly used interchangeable terms, depression means a
state of death, and grief is a response to the death. There are various stages in a person’s life
where they feel loss. This might include separation from loved or close ones, death of a pet,
kids leaving home, lose a job or position, divorce, sudden death of a loved one and many
more. According to some healthcare professionals it has been said that there are two types of
grief where one is acute and the other one is persistent (Mehralian and et. al., 2016). As per
an analysis it is said that mostly people face acute grief, which mainly arise in the first 6 to 12
months immediately after a loss happen and then gradually resolves in an effective manner.
On the other hand some people experience another sort of grief which lasts more than 12
months. Usually grief occurs when there is death of someone close to an individual person
shake their existence which directly or indirectly affect the body or mind of the person. It has

also been identified by examining various people that during the time of grief, a person who
is suffering from this become preoccupied with memories, thoughts, ideas and images of the
loved one. It has also said that chronic stress is common while acute grief which as a result
leads to various sort of emotional and physical issues which includes trouble in sleeping,
depression, anger as well as bitterness, loss of appetite, anxiety, general aches & pains. There
are some cases where individuals resist grief, but these symptoms need to be considered and
not to be ignored by anyone so that this can reduce the chances of heart attack, death, strokes
and many more (Wong, Ignatius and Soh, 2014). Therefore, it is said that grief as well as
grieving process needs to be considered by a person at initial level so that the negative impact
of such process can be reduced within given time period.
Research aim
Research aim of the present research or investigation is “To investigate the impact of
guiding and supporting to carers while grieving process.”
Research objectives
 To determine the influence of grieving process over the people.
 To identify the stage of grief after a death that faced by the people.
 To access the role of carers in handling people after grieving process.
Above mentioned are the research objectives which are going to be discussed in detail
manner so that the whole investigation will be concluded in an effective manner. Research
questions are usually developed on the basis of research aim so that the whole investigation
will be concluded in an effective manner and develop positive frameworks. The first aim of
this research project is to determine the influence or impact of grieving process on the people.
It is said that the impact can both positive and negative which can affect the life of
individuals in a long run. In addition to this, another research objective which is developed to
complete the whole project is to identify the grief stages which is faced by a person when
there loved one separate from them due to death or many other reasons. Stages of grief includes
anger, denial, depression, bargaining and acceptance needs to be analysed and identified by the person
within stipulated time frame which can reduce the negative impact in an effective manner. At the end,
last research objectives is formulated to examine the role of carers in order to manage and handle after
grieving procedures. It is said that carer plays very essential role in order to handle people after they
face grief.

Research questions
 What is the influence of grieving process over the people?
 What is the different stage of grief after a death that faced by the people?
 What is role of carers in handling people after grieving process?
Rationale of research
The main reason behind selecting this project is to effectively understand the
influence of guiding as well as supporting to carers at the time of grieving process. This
research provides vast information about the topic and area of interest that support
investigator to effectively take a right decision at the end of the study. Mainly, it also may
assist researcher to enhance their skills and knowledge about the topic. The main advantage
of undertaking this researcher is to accomplishing positive results and at the same time also
develop area that contributes in improving the possibilities of making whole research
successful and reliable as well.
Background
In context of this project, it is based on the aim of analysing the impact of guiding and
supporting carers at the time of grieving process which is favourable to improve condition of
suffered people. This assignment will focus on the influence of grieving procedure over the
individuals. However, it will also include discussion about different stage of grief after facing
death of a loved one. It includes denial & isolation, anger, bargaining, depression and
acceptance (Castelló, Etter and Årup Nielsen, 2016). The role of carers in handling people
after grieving process for supporting people is given below.
The influence of grieving process over the people
The grieving process is difficult for an individual because they are facing extreme traumatic
situation from which healing is not an easy tasks for them. As per views given by Yang and
Zou (2014), it includes the fact that grieving process impact on a person deeply which make a
permanent mark in their mind which may hurt them anytime when they think about the same.
Basically, it has been analysed that grieving situations includes divorce, death of loved one,
financial crisis, witnessed severe accident and so on. It is observed that such incident impact
on mental and physical state of an individual from which they face difficulty to overcome.
People who face difficult situations then they do not overcome with it or have problem of
trauma or any other psychological problem like depression, anxiety, post traumatic disorders

etc. It includes the fact that a person can overcome with their situation but has remains of the
same lifelong. For example, when parents face death of their young son then it will affect
them life long as they get hurt anytime when they think about their passed son. It includes
another example, that when a person face people with extremely injured and horrible scenes
then it impact on their life as they get disturbed for a while when they think about the same.
In addition to this, it has been analysed that grieving process of an individual impact on their
entire life. It includes the various kinds of situations take place with people such as shock,
numbness, sadness, denial, despair, anxiety, anger, guilt, loneliness, depression, helplessness,
relief and yearning. However, it has been evaluated that terrible situations are critical to be
faced due to which people get disturbed mentally many times which requires medical support
and long treatment for an individual to make them able for overcoming with such conditions.
According to the opinion of Shaheen, Samhan and Fuchs-Hanusch (2016), it is observed that
people become stable physically and mentally by intake medications but they face emotional
issues regularly. However, the grieving process impact negatively on health condition
because intake of medications for a long time have side effects of it. it is necessary for family
members, relatives and neighbours to maintain moral strength of an individual so that they
can easily health situation effectively. It is observed that when people overcome in less
duration of time then they have better condition but if it takes long period of time then a
person will not become completely well in physical, emotional and mental context. However,
it has been analysed that relatives have duty to observe condition of an individual and
immediately provide them medical support if condition is critical and support them to
overcome with the terrible situation of life. Additionally, it is observed that grieving process
may be easy or difficult which depends upon the closeness of an individual to the specific
incident happened with and their own internal strength.
The stage of grief after a death that faced by the people
The grief can be defined as a normal intern felling which can be experienced by an individual
in reaction loss, while bereavement is the state of experiencing that loss. Tang, Amran and
Goh (2014) states that it is observed that an individual who had faced death have various
types of emotional changes such as disbelief or shock, denial, bargaining, guilt, anger,
depression and hope or acceptance. The grief after death of an individual is considered as
extremely difficult situation form the close ones. It includes the fact that difficulty is for close
family members who were attached with the person get dead and other relatives can
overcome easily. However, it has been analysed that there are number of stages of grief after