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Supporting Significant in Life Events Report

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Supporting Significant in Life Events Report

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SUPPORTING SIGNIFICANT LIFEEVENTS1
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................31.1 Explaining the impact of significant life events on individuals.............................................31.2 Analyzing possible group response to bereavement..............................................................51.3 Analyzing the impact for others in health and social care setting when an individual isbereaved.......................................................................................................................................52.1 Evaluating the effectiveness of organizational policies and procedures of supportingbereaved individuals....................................................................................................................62.2 Explaining the ways in which others in social network may provide support to thebereaved individuals....................................................................................................................62.3 Evaluating the suitability of external sources of support that are available for the bereavedindividuals....................................................................................................................................73.1 Analyzing thepossible organizational response to the need to support individuals that areexperiencing a significant life event............................................................................................83.2 Personal contribution to the support of individuals that are experiencing significant lifeevents...........................................................................................................................................83.3 Recommendations for improving the support that is available in a health and social careorganization for individuals and their social networks which are affected by significant lifeevents...........................................................................................................................................9CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................112
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INTRODUCTIONLife events play a significant role in reshaping the life of a person (Kaplow and et.al.,2014). A significant life change can be any event or occurrence, gain or loss or even positive ornegative but after that, life of individual gets change or somehow affected. Life event may bedeath of a beloved person, retirement, promotion, marriage, divorce and change in financial stateetc. (Landau and et.al., 2011).In this project, there is a case of Mr. George whose mother is suffering from Cancer. Theproject report includes the way in which the life of Mr. George gets affected due to life eventwhich is faced by him that is his mother’s illness. Further, there is a discussion regarding thesupport from external sources which are available for the bereaved person with reference to thegiven case of George and his mother Garry. 1.1 Explaining the impact of significant life events on individualsThere is a great impact of the significant life event on individuals. The bereavedindividual’s social, physical or psychological life gets affected due to any such cause or lifeevent. The impact of significant life event on individual is as under:Physical Impact- The person gets affected due to significant life event, he get weakensand scattered as well as suffers from the poor physical health due to instability in foodhabits (Bonanno, 2009). In the present case, Mr. George was also getting affected withthe illness of his mother, Mrs. Garry. He was much stressed and disappointed whichgives a bad impact on his health as he has become weak due to this. But, he was trying tocope up with the situation by taking proper care of his mother in her last time.Emotional impact- The person gets mentally disturbed due to such cause along withbecoming aggressive, deeply stressed and getting disappointed. Sometimes, it also gives apositive impact on the person as because of that, he becomes stronger to take theresponsibility in that tough situation of dying person (Thoits, 2013). Mr. George was alsoupset and sad but he tried his level best to take better care of his mother and to make herhappy as well.Social impact- Due to such impact, taking care and giving support to the patients towhom the individual is attached will result in detachment of the individual from society3
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and his social life (King and Hicks, 2009). He wants to live isolate and do not want to gooutside or far away for a minute from the ill person. Social life of Mr. George also getsaffected by the illness of his mother, Mrs. Garry. George who started spending his entiretime in taking care of her mother and he also took a leave from his job. Due to all these,social life of George affected a lot.Kubler - Ross grief cycle model is useful in understanding one's own and other people'semotional response to the personal trauma and change. As per this model, life of a person getsaffected in 5 stages:Denial: It is the stage where conscious or subconscious mind of a person refuses toaccept the fact (Douma, Dekker and Koot, 2006). As per the case given, Mr. George'smother was suffering from cancer and he is also at this stage where he is refusing toaccept the fact that his mother, Mrs. Gary suffered from any such kind of disease.Anger: In that stage, people become upset and disappointed due to such life event and getangry and aggressive as well (Mazure and et.al., 2014). In case of Mr. George, he wasgoing through the situation where he started blaming himself and feeling extremely guiltyand stressed.Bargaining: At this stage, individual starts bargaining with God. People starteddemanding with god to improve the health and illness of their beloved one of familyperson. Doctor, Mr. George was also very sad and hurt as he was also praying to God forsoon recovery of his mother’s illness. Depression: This is the stage where person becomes extremely sad and get the feeling offear and anxiety (Williams and et.al., 2008). Mr. George was also frightened about thefact that he would lose his mother.Acceptance: Finally, at this stage, person accepted the reality and tried to move on in hislife (Ong, Bergeman and Bisconti, 2005). As per the given case, Mr. George alsoaccepted the reality of death of his mother and started working towards the fulfilment ofhis mother's dying wishes.4
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