Supporting People Facing Loss: Understanding Grief and Its Mediators

Supporting people facing loss

INTRODUCTION
• Loss : reflects a condition where a specific event is responsible for an individual’s altered
communication and interactions skills socially and mentally (Jewel and blackmore, 2004)
• In addition, failure to achieve a particular aim or deprivation of anything which is close / dear is loss.
• Loss can be: physical loss or abstract loss
• Physical loss is the loss which can be touch, felt or measured e.g. death of loved one
• Abstract loss is broadly associated to social links
• Grief is a emotional natural suffering to any loss which is expressed either physically or psychologically
(wright, 2009)
• It depends on personal experience, cultural environment and spiritual believes of an individual and is
unique in its own sense
• Loss can be necessary, actual, perceived, maturational, situational
• Grief can be normal, anticipatory, complicated, disenfranchised (Hume, 2008)
• This presentation includes theories of grief and one of the mediators of grief as presented by Worden