Supporting Significant Life Events In World
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SUPPORTING SIGNIFICANT LIFE EVENTS
This discussion concerns significant life events and how they impact on individuals andgroups. The main focus of this text concerns Grenfell Tower fire which occurred on 14June 2017 and resulted in 72 deaths. Furthermore, it looks at the effectiveness oforganisational policies and procedures, social networks, and external sources ofsupport. It includes the writer’s own reflection in support of an individual experiencing amajor life event. Moreover, recommendations are offered in terms of improving thesupport available in a health and social care organisation.Later, due to unawareness and adoption of 'fire put off policy', few residents got trappedad lost lives. While few escaped and came out of the building via staircases. Firebrigades came to the rescue but maximum casualties took place and resulted in loss ofmany lives. This accident required much support both in terms of monetary adpsychological support. However, many organisations came together for raising charitiesand donations and supported in maintaining the accommodation and food services.1.1 Significant life event is defined as the critical event or occurrence of unexpected incidentwhich has negative impact on the patients' life (Klatzkin, Baldassaro and Rashid, 2019).This has led to the socio-physical and psychological changes in the life stages ofindividuals. For e.g. Outbreak of Fire on Grenfell Tower, which was an uncertain eventand caused death of seventy-two people due to the failure of ‘stay put policy’? It alsoincludes relationships, economic crisis or onset of cultural issues at societal levels. Holmes and Rahe (1967) Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) rates the numberof life events experienced and predicts whether or not stress occurs. However, it doesnot give a specific time-frame in which a person has stress. Other researchers haveclaimed that daily hassles have a greater impact on individuals than do major life events(Kanner et al. 1991). Brown and Harris (1978) argued that effective coping strategiesand/or social support can act as a buffer against stress.It is evident that in many cases stress result from traumas in a person’s life. Selye'sGAS (General Adaptation Syndrome) Model is also beneficial in predicting thephysiological changes in terms of alarm (1), resistance (2) and exhaustion (3). This aidsin understanding the stressors and triggering points through the three stage response inthe body. Such models support in demonstrating wider understanding of structuralchanges that might have occurred in Grenfell incident due to significant life events.People experiencing major life events often are stressed. Signs of stress which include:physiological (headaches), behavioural (drinking and smoking more), cognitive (memoryproblems) and emotional (lacking in self-esteem) factors. These are inter-connectedand have an adverse influence which put restrictions from the coping resources andreleases direct physical responses due to unsteady homoeostasis in the body. It isclear that many of the survivors of Grenfell Tower fire are experiencing some of theaforementioned problems. Many have attempted suicide as a result of ‘survivor guilt”.1
The Life change model is the transferable model that is used for making changes and isbased on four stages namely pre-contemplation stage, contemplation stage, preparationstage and action stage (Walsh and et.al. 2019). These are useful in bringing changes toaffected bereaved families of Grenfell Tower tragedy. This is possible through a naturalrecovery which concentrate on person centred approaches and motivating them inovercoming any bereavement or untoward conditions. 1.2 Group responses are the reactions to the significant life event to gain the insights onmanaging and deploying the risk management and provide coping strategies toovercome it. Grenfell Tower disaster led to many queries especially about the 'stay put'fire policy. The residents were in utter shock as they did whatever was being askedthem to do and few disregarded it and reached the downstairs safely. It was already latewhen this advice was abandoned and took many lives. Herein, the social networks tookon a debate whether this policy must be discarded or not and the community ledorganizations with government funds responded aptly (Richardson and Jost, 2019). They together generated funds to provide assistance regarding lodging and foodservices. For instance, London Emergencies Trust, Rugby Portobello Trust and theCharity Commission together took an initiative and received funding from other sourcesfor the Grenfell Tower affected residents to stand tall in this time of adversity. Also,2Illustration 1:Stages of Life Change Model(Source: Hartney, 2018)
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