Stress, grief, and death are common aspects that paramedics experience and can present in many different ways. This assignment will be identifying the presentation of stress, and strategies to manage stress and to also maintain the personal wellbeing of paramedics, plus common stressors. According to Lambert and Lambert (2008), stress can be arranged into a physical, enthusiastic, and a type of human behaviour. This assignment will also be touching base on Kübler-Ross and Dual’s Model, plus general strategies to assist grieving people and relating it to paramedic practise. Cultural specific strategies will be compared with the Māori culture and the Japanese culture about sudden death and how they traditionally handle it. Bledsoe, Porter, and Cherry (2014) mention that paramedics experience more death than the vast majority. This has been found to prompt total physical and mental overload, which paramedics need to perceive and manage in order to remain balanced (Lambert and Lambert, 2008).
Symptoms of stress as stated by Lambert and Lambert (2008), can vary amongst individuals. Bledsoe et al, (2014) explain that a stimulus that causes stress is also known as a stressor. Bledsoe et al, (2014) also describe the causing signs of stress can include loss of valued procession, general displeasure and incapable methods for dealing with stress. Examples are given by Marieb and Hoehn (2015), physical short-term stress can change in blood flow from an increased heart rate, which will
A stressor is a specific event or pressure threatening a person’s well-being or places demands on the person while stress is the physical
Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss. Although primarily focused on the emotional reaction to loss, it also carries a physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical connotation. Doctor Elisabeth Kübler-Ross introduced the idea of the stages of grief in her 1969 book, On Death and Dying. Although it has received much criticism since then, the Kübler-Ross model remains to be the most widely accepted model of grief today. However, as most psychological research conducted in the 20th century was based on people living in the North America and Western Europe, the Kübler-Ross model could be culturally biased. In the Laws of Absence, Ahmed El-Madini introduces the readers to grief and mourning in the Islamic culture. Through this
According to Hart (2012), those people who are suffering from grief often seek help from the health care professionals. This is important for the clinicians to identify and address their own experiences in the clinical settings. The main aim of this article is to explore the facts about grief, the common themes of grief and the different ways in which the patient process of the clinicians can be facilitated.
People tend to deal or cope with death in a variety of ways, ranging from a very pleasant or healthy way to destructive. It really depends on how mentally strong and how much support you collect from family member, close friends, or possibly people who have dealt with similar trauma. Joe Manetti from “Always a Motive,” and Eric Clapton, singer and songwriter of “Tears in Heaven,” display quite an army of differences. However, they make it visible that they are not to different from one another. Clapton exposes that he is able to make it through such rough times by writing music. Joe Manetti on the other hand struggles with living with his misery because he does not have a strong outlet of emotions like Clapton does . Grief can be a
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Grief, anger, crying, despair and loneliness are just to name a few of the symptoms of one would feel at the loss of a loved one. According to research no study conducted can detect the true feelings of how one would feel about losing a loved or watching someone slowly die each day while on hospice care.
When stressed, we have and increase in heart rate, muscles tense, breathing quickens and you may start to sweat. ¹
The most common effect of death in a family is known as grief. When we understand it better, it makes the process a little less daunting. We have to realize as humans, we are not alone. Everyone has lost someone they loved and it's a natural thing to deal with. There is no normal way of dealing with death. It doesn't have patterns or a set way of dealing with it.
Stress is your body’s way of responding to any kind of demand; it can be caused by both good and bad experiences.
The stages of mourning and grief are universal and are experienced by people from all walks of life. Mourning occurs in response to an individual’s own terminal illness or to the death of a valued being, human or animal. There are five stages of normal grief that were first proposed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book “On Death and Dying.”
Black Americans can have different emotions from crying to being silent. People usually gather in large gatherings to pay respect. Black Americans have a belief that death is God’s will and the deceased is in God’s hand and will be reunited
Grief and loss, that is what you are commonly left feeling after a natural disaster. Whether you lost a family member, friend, pet, or your home, you could be left feeling this way. There is no real way to stop a natural disaster, but for your own well being it is best to get out of the way to avoid any sort of lose to you or your family. Natural disasters kill around 68,000 people every year, whether it's Tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, or floods. These storms also affect millions more due to the destruction of their homes or belongings.
In this essay I will outline the main theoretical models relating to loss and grief.
Stress today can be described as "that which disturbs a person's mental and physical well-being" (Morrison 1). Common symptoms of stress include chronic fatigue, changes in appetite, drug and/or alcohol abuse, difficulty sleeping, body aches, and changes in emotions (Cooper 1-2). And although stress is something that is inevitable, it can be controlled. Just about everything we do today creates stress, both good and bad. In the face paced and technological world we live in, stress management is key to survival as well as sanity.
Stress is also linked low fertility in one’s reproductive organs, and can cause problems during pregnancy or one’s menstrual cycle (www.everydayhealth.com). This happens when one is overwhelmed with the stress he or she is going through in their lives. No one person is the same, meaning stressors as well as stress levels differ for each individual. This is why it is hard for scientists to reach the core because it is a subjective sensation related with a variety of symptoms that differ for each of us. Because of this, stress is not always a synonym for distress. Situations like a steep roller coaster ride that cause fear and anxiety for some can prove highly pleasurable for others (www.stress.org). Each person also responds to stress differently. There are numerous physical as well as emotional responses to stress. Stress can cause an ocean of different emotions that are often times unpredictable. It can have wide ranging effects on people’s emotions, mood and behavior (www.stress.org). Stress has said to have been America’s number one leading health problem. It has been shown that stress levels have escalated in children, teenagers, college students and the elderly for reasons that of which have lead to: increased crime, violence, and other threats to personal safety; pernicious peer pressures that lead to substance abuse and other unhealthy life style habits; social isolation and loneliness; the erosion of family and religious