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PSY 211 Module Four Activity Template In the Module Four Activity Guidelines and Rubric, review the Overview, Scenario, and Prompt sections. Then answer each of the following questions with a minimum of 2 to 5 sentences. Complete this template by replacing the bracketed text with the relevant information .  Describe which of Kübler-Ross’s stages of grief are most applicable to Jackie’s situation. Explain your response. The stages of grief that are most applicable to Jackie’s situation are depression and acceptance. The stage of degression is described as when the dying person feels a sense of despair as their predominant emotion (Sigelman & Rider, 2017). Jackie is feeling despair over the loss of her mobility and independence since having to leave her job because of the effects of chemotherapy and now entering hospice care. We can define the stage of acceptance as the stage where the dying person has come to accept “the inevitability of death in a calm and peaceful manner” (Sigelman & Rider, 2017, p.540). While Jackie is still feeling some despair, she has also come to terms with her terminal diagnosis. Jackie feels proud of herself for raising a good daughter and leaving her dysfunctional marriage although she feels some regret for not having given back to her community enough.  Explain how a person experiences Kübler-Ross’s stages of grief. Address the following in your response: o Does a person move through the stages in a linear fashion? o What have you read or experienced about grief to support your answer? Kubler-Ross’s stages of grief have been criticized by many for the use of the term “stages” because it implies that a person must move through the “stages” linearly to reach the final goal of acceptance (Tyrrell, P. et al., 2023). However, the reality is that people do not move through the stages of grief linearly. In fact, some people only go through a few of the stages of grief. According to Sigelman & Rider (2017), “some overzealous medical professionals have tried to push dying patients through the “stages” in order, believing incorrectly that their patients would never accept death unless they experienced the ‘right’ emotions at the ‘right’ times”. In my personal experience, when my great-grandmother died a few months before my wedding, I only ever experienced anger and acceptance. I never denied it happened or tried to bargain with a higher power, I understood and accepted that she was gone, but I was and still am extremely angry. I’m angry that she left before she got to see me get married, I was angry that she was in Florida visiting other family members when it happened, so I didn’t get to say goodbye, and I was angry that I was losing someone who was there my entire life. I believe that I experienced something more like the Parkes/Bowlby Attachment Model of Bereavement. I felt the phase of numbness almost immediately (Sigelman & Rider, 2017). I felt like I was in a daze and would often catch myself lost in my thoughts in the days following my great-grandmother’s death. I didn’t want to feel any emotions or do anything. On the day of her funeral, I began to experience the phase of yearning where the shock of her passing began to fade, and my emotions started coming in intense floods of grief, anger, and guilt (Sigelman & Rider, 2017). During this phase, my anxiety was severely heightened, and I felt out of control. With time, the overwhelming and intense emotions came less often and tended to only be when I found something that reminded me of her and especially on my wedding day when we held a moment of silence for the loved ones that couldn’t be there. Now, I understand this to be the phase of disorganization and despair where Parkes and 1

Bowlby discuss that the “pangs of intense grief and yearning become less frequent” (Sigelman & Rider, 2017, p.542). I feel that now I am somewhere in the transition between the disorganization and despair phase and the reorganization phase because I still have days where I feel those overwhelming emotions about her passing but I have also begun to invest more time in those that are still with me (Sigelman & Rider, 2017).  Explain why having a sense of cultural competence (empathy, respect, self-awareness, cultural awareness, communication) could help Jamie be a more effective caregiver. Having a sense of cultural competence could help Jamie be a more effective caregiver for many reasons. First, it can help her to provide appropriate compassion (Papadopoulos, 2014). It is important to understand that people of different cultures and religions have different beliefs of death and dying. Some people may believe in heaven or reincarnation while others may not. Understanding these differences will allow Jaime to provide appropriate compassion for her patients. Second, when working with individuals who are unable to care for themselves it is important to have empathy for their needs, care, and desires. Cultural competence can help Jamie to better understand the needs of each of her patients.  Given your unique needs, desires, and aspirations, describe some things that you feel will provide you with a sense of life satisfaction as you enter the later stages of the life span. I believe that there are many things that will provide me with a sense of life satisfaction when I enter the later stages of life. First, I have an amazing and supportive support system including my husband, my family, and my close friends. Second, I am pursuing a degree that I have a passion for and want to use to help children with speech and language disorders. Another thing that I feel will bring me life satisfaction is having children with my husband and being a caring, loving and supportive mother to them. 2

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