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Shock And Grief Case Study

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Factors possess grief from accepting the sudden death of a loved one:

Case 1: CHERRY Shock and Disbelief. Cherry could not find the answer for tragic life event that happened “not knowing” why something awful occurred to her loved one. Difficulty facing the reality that the person she loved is dead, that the person is gone and will not return anymore. Unending grief. An intensity and duration of grief that Cherry feels make her harder to move on. Self-blame. One of the hardest things to come to terms with is the fact that there is nothing that Cherry could have done to prevent or change the outcome of sudden death that is why Cherry blamed herself for what happened to her loved one.

When someone dies suddenly, there is always a sense …show more content…

Many less experienced counselors do not recognize this and focus too much on mere intellectual acceptance of the loss, overlooking emotional acceptance.The bereaved person maybe intellectually aware of the finality of the loss long before the emotions allow full acceptance of the information as true (Anonymous, 2004).

Case 2: JACK
Self-blame. Jack blamed his self about the sudden death of his loved one. That “If only I had accompanied him to go to church that day, it would not happened it to my loved one” the guilt that Jack felt was affect him to accept the loss.

Self-blame stresses responsibility for the death, and implies accusation of oneself, regret in bereavement focuses more on possible better outcomes, without impaired sense of self. Negative cognition focused on oneself, as in self-blame, has been suggested to play a more detrimental role in psychological well-being and accepting in grief than negative perception of one's behaviour or the event per se, as in regret. A major purpose of the current longitudinal investigation is, then, to compare the role of self-blame with that of regret in the process of coming to terms with the loss of a loved one. They examine their role not only as determinants but also their course over time, across the months of acute grief and grieving (Plos one, …show more content…

The present study focuses on two components of guilt, namely, self-blame and regret. There are good reasons to select these two: They are the most-frequently identified forms of guilt in the bereavement literature, yet systematic comparisons of their impact have so far been lacking. Given the specific characteristics of self-blame and regret one might assume that they have different associations with psychological well-being among bereaved persons: Self-blame and regret are like the same or too close, yet distinct phenomena, ones which may play different roles in the adaptation process after loss. (Plos one,

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