...Faith based Grief Counseling Resource- When Trouble Comes by: Jim Berg TRUTH #1 * The greatest danger is always the flesh=try to make life work without God. * Though other people may have created the wound,we are responsible how we react to it. TRUTH#2 * The Gospel is always the answer! apply it to our suffering * The only lasting and satisfying answer to life’s problems = increase your intimacy with God! * A life focused on Christ will not crumble amidst crisis , because there is complete trust in God. The plan is not easy to do because our self-centered ways cry out for relief in our terms. * “My strength is made perfect in weakness” * Look at “God’s agenda”, when a crisis hits, taking on his perspective. TRUTH#3 * God’s glory is always the goal. * In the “fiery furnaces” of our lives need to (1) always respond in a way that shows God is more important than anything else, (2) and respond in a way that if someone is watching , they could see God’s goodness in you . Therefore- we are glorifying God, because we are esteeming Him of highest value. Example—(Daniel 3:24-25) : These men risk there lives for God despite the consequences of being through into fire,which in the end God saves them. * “ If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will lose his life for my sake,the same shall save it (Luke 9 :23-24). * Our goal must be to use every circumstance to show...
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...Knowing Your Audience Communication and Paper Release Kimberly Vaughn BCOMM/278 June 10, 2014 Joel Maier Knowing you audience In today’s society a crisis can present itself at any given time. Unfortunately, today Monday June 9, 2014 at approximately 4:15pm the Pixar Amusement Park suffered a huge tragedy. The Minions rollercoaster collapsed. One employee being pronounced dead on the scene also two adults and one child were injured and in semi critical condition. Since a crisis can arise at any time it’s best to be prepared on how to address the situation, the media, patrons, shareholders, employee’s and families affected by a crisis. According to Businessdictionary.com a crisis is defined as a critical event or point of decision which, if not handled in an appropriate and timely manner (or if not handled at all), may turn into a disaster or catastrophe. My name is Kimberly Vaughn and I am a crisis manager at Vaughn and associates. My job is to create a plan of action on how Pixar Amusement Park can overcome this tragic loss suffered. I will assess the crisis and propose a plan of action on how to address the audience and provide the best solutions and feedback possible; to relieve the company and comfort the public that the amusement park is safe for children and families to patronize. During this time I will draft two communications for the CEO and the president of the company to release on Pixar and its affiliates behave. First I have...
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...inspection. Use this material to dwelve deeper into the concepts that may have been confusing or “muddy”, and share. This exercise in totality will take 2-3 hours to complete, including review of the video/audio, synopsis and completion of the form. | | | |Name of Audio or Video |Basic Counseling Techniques | | |https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKut-MpT_mg | | | | | | | |List the concepts discussed within |Learning some basic skills of counseling techniques which some skills would include the | |podcast/video/audio |patterns of sessions, active listening, body language, tone, open ended and closed | | |questions, paraphrasing, summarizing, note taking, homework, the 'goodie bag' and other fun | | |and informative stuff! ...
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...Library of Congress Call Number | BF575.G7 | Dewey Decimal Classification Number | Fil 155.937 Se68p 2008 | Main Entry - Personal Name | Serrano, Claire. | Title Statement | The power of acceptance / Claire Serrano | Physical Description | 82 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 17 cm | Subject Added Entry - Topical Term | Bereavement | | Bereavement -- Psychological aspects | Bibliographic Data | International Standard Book Number | 0195105915 (pbk.) | Cataloging Source | NLP | Dewey Decimal Classification Number | Ref 155.937 083 C461h 2000 | Main Entry - Personal Name | Christ, Grace Hyslop. | Title Statement | Healing children's grief : surviving a parent's death from cancer / by Grace Hyslop Christ | Physical Description | xxi, 264 p. ; 24 cm | Subject Added Entry - Topical Term | Grief in children | | Grief in adolescence | | Bereavement in children | | Bereavement in adolescence | International Standard Book Number | 1853022853 | Cataloging Source | NLP | Dewey Decimal Classification Number | Ref 155.937 083 In8 1995 | Title Statement |...
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...Kolbi Senegal Bereavement Counseling Southern University March 23, 2014 Class Reflection March 17, 2014 Unfortunately I was able to attend class due to illness but for what I learned and got from my classmates is that class was about the empty chair technique. Everyone in class got a turn to do the empty chair technique. According to Humphrey (2009), the empty chair is used to address unfinished business. Especially when dealing with grief counseling the client is to image the person or non- death related death sitting in chair and then the client will say or tell the person how she/he feels and gets everything out in the open and talk thru the situation. This technique is also used in Gestalt Therapy to make clients aware of their feelings. I do believe this is a great technique for clients who feel that they are to blame or they never got a chance to say how they feel to person or object that he/she has unfinished business with. This technique the client is doing all the talking and getting down to core of the problem that the individual has with the non-related death or death of love one. Tuesdays with Morrie With each visit, Mitch notices Morrie sinking more and more into his chair. He asks Morrie why he will not lie in bed. Morrie's response is, “When you're in bed, you're dead.” He says "Nightline" wants to come back, but they want to wait. This infuriates Mitch, as he feels they are exploiting Morrie, wanting to show him at his absolute worst. Morrie says that it is...
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...Grief counseling and children: Ambiguous loss and its effects on children: Implications and interventions for school counselors. By K. Guidy, C. Simpson, T.Test, and C. Bloomfield. Texas A &M University Commerce. * In addition to emotions, children experience physical responses to a loss such as exhaustion, insomnia, headache, stomachaches, and regressive behaviors. * Just like adults children process grief in different and unique ways, there is no right or wrong way to grieve. * Grief work is essential in order for the individual to become actively engaged in their own life again. * Children need adequate information, reassurance, routine, validation, active listening, and adult models to demonstrate mourning behaviors constructively and appropriately. * When a child losses someone in their family they are grieving the loss of the systemic role in the family, the loss of a relationship, loss of an emotional connection and the fear of possibly losing someone else in their family. * May have self-blame, confusion, fear, isolation, or alone * Faced to deal with the changes in their new family systems, adjusting to the remaining parents new way of life may be difficult * SC should build meaningful relationships with the student as well as validate, understand, listen, and normalize their loss when the child is comfortable enough to share with them * You need to meet children and families where they are, support them with patience, compassion...
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...family service is a place a person can go to get professional help on a sliding scale cost. United Family Services' mission is to provide hope and solutions for people in crisis. When a person has nowhere to turn united family services provides help. Their service area is all of charlotte and surrounding areas. The counseling is open to most adults but there is about a two for three month wait before being seen unless it is an emergency and harm may happen. If the thought of immediate harm is going to happen there are immediate services provided. The population severed is people who need counseling in different areas. The counseling is geared towards women who are victims of domestic violence. This is where a woman can receive counseling to remove themselves from the abuse and have shelter for themselves and their children. It is not limited to just women. There are programs for men and teens to receive the help they need. Other services that are available are; clinical services which are marital or family counseling, anger management support groups, parenting classes, crisis intervention such as 24 hour sexual assault hot line, child abuse intervention grief counseling following a homicide, support groups for teens and also post –traumatic stress debriefing for groups affected by violence. Another service that is provided is economic independence. This service provides people with tools to budget money or money management education. This service helps people learned how to...
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...DISENFRANCHISED In life, there are certain situations in which an individual's grief is not recognized and unacknowledged by others, a phenomenon that has been termed disenfranchised grief. These individuals are denied the "right to grief" and are not offered social support, sympathy, or opportunities to express their emotions. Disenfranchised grief is more actively negative and destructive as it involves denial of entitlement. Disenfranchising messages actively discount, dismiss, disapprove, discourage, and invalidate, the experiences and efforts of grieving. And disenfranchising behaviors interfere with the exercise of the right to grieve by withholding permission, disallowing, constraining, hindering, and even prohibiting it. ( Attig ). Kenneth Doka defined disenfranchised grief as the grief that people experience from a loss that is not, or cannot be, openly acknowledged, publicly mourned, or socially supported. There is a wide range of multiple losses that people experience on a daily basis that fits into a disenfranchised grief framework. These losses can range from changes in jobs and friendships to loss of a lover, through divorce or the death of a pet or due to the physical or emotional changes to a loved one brought on by conditions such as AIDS or Alzheimer's disease. In each case, where there was once an attachment, there soon follows a loss and its accompanying grief. The grief process, however, becomes more complex because the usual supports that facilitate...
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...of adulthood can find the emotions that they are experiencing to be frighteningly intense. Grief is individual and the processes of mourning are never the same between two people. However some of the responses to death and bereavement can be similar depending on the age, level of comprehension, relationship with the person who has died and the emotional resilience of the mourner. The following responses are common Alternating play and sadness Members of the school staff may be the first to recognise changes in the bereaved child or young person’s behaviour outside of their immediate family, who may not have noticed if they too are grieving. Young children may appear to be sad and withdrawn one minute then might begin playing with building blocks or dolls the next. This is because unlike adults, bereaved children do not possess the emotional reserves to grieve continuously and they will need respite from their grief. Play allows the bereaved child to shift their focus from their grief, albeit for a short while, until they are sufficiently mentally restored to recommence grieving. It is of paramount importance not to view such play breaks as the child “getting over the death” because this is not only inaccurate but can lead to the child being chastised or criticised for attention seeking when they resume grieving. Play breaks are just that – momentary breaks from perpetual grief which the bereaved child does not have the...
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...The First Stages of Grief The death of a loved one can cause people to become severely depressed. Everyone goes through a grieving process. Healing comes gradually and at different stages through the grieving process and will last differently for everyone. The Five stages of Grief are, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and then finally acceptance. The first stage of grief is denial. Denial is a period of time where the person will simply deny that the death of a loved one has occurred. This stage does not last long though. It occurs as soon as the news has been given to them that their loved one has passed. Most of the time this first stage of grief will only last about two weeks or so. After the first two weeks, you may or may not go into the second stage, Anger. Anger is the period of time that the person will be/feel angry with themselves for any past mistakes they made with the deceased. They may also become angry with the deceased for leaving as well. The anger may last for two to four weeks, but is different with everyone. Some may not even go through this stage and skip right to the third stage or the ending stage....
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...living. Frequently, the patient is ready for this before their family/friends. At this point, care for the terminally ill should focus not on a cure but on comfort and as much freedom from pain and other symptoms as possible. Death with dignity and as little pain as possible becomes our goal. This isn’t always an easy process for a medical professional. We have been taught to never give up, retain hope at all costs, to do something to “fix the problem”. We need to remember that first and foremost we are an advocate for our patient and their wishes, despite our own beliefs and value system. Assisting a patient and their support system through the realization that death is imminent is and can be very rewarding. Understanding the 5 stages of grief-denial/anger/bargaining/depression/acceptance-and realizing not only do the patients experience these stages but also their supporters do too. Progression through the stages isn’t linear and they could experience 2 stages at a time and may even revert back to a stage multiple times. (Such as anger) As a medical professional, it is our duty to remain supportive and an advocate for our patient-especially when what the patient has expressed as their final wishes are not being honored. (Having a trachea and feeding tube placed despite a living will that expressly states not to have done if quality of life will be poor) We must be able to put aside our own beliefs and prejudices to ensure our patient’s wishes are met. Strategy #1: Increase use...
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...I know that I’ve told some people but not everyone… my individually counseling is coming to a close. With Anissa’s help, I have developed an exit plan that only exists of a few more appointments. Part of my plan includes me sharing my story with the three of you. I have several dates that I can offer and I am hoping that one of these will work for everyone (Sept. 7 at 4:00pm, Sept 11 at 5:00 pm and Oct. 2 at 6:00 pm - all of these will be held at The Martinelli Center, which is at The Truman Hospice House in New Philadelphia). Several months ago, I began a series of very intensive “flooding” sessions - these sessions were directly focused on learning to accept and live with my PTSD diagnosis. During these sessions, I worked very hard to re-live...
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...Loving the Bad Man- Movie Review Louise Lomeland CRIS303-B02 Liberty University Online Abstract The movie Loving the Bad Man is about a traumatic experience; rape of a young woman and the man who raped her. Christine Thompson is a young Christian woman loved by those who know her and her family, father, mother, and brother. Christine is raped by a young angry man named Mike Connor and she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a boy she names Arthur. Mike is committed to prison for 10 to 20 years for his crime on the day Christine gives birth. They come together through Christine’s faith in God and His word for forgiveness. Christine’s life gets worse before it gets better, while Mike’s life, although in prison gets better before it gets worse. Everyone close to Christine and Mike are affected by the traumatic event. The Nature of the Crisis Presented Christine Thompson is a young woman who lives with her family. Her mother, Marion who is a stay at home mom is supportive and loving, and shares the Christian faith with Christine, her father, Ed who is also supportive and loving but does not see eye to eye with Christine and her belief standard of faith, and her brother, Joey who is a DJ music player at local venues. Christine works as a cashier in a store. A male co-worker Cole Parker, who is also a Christian is interested in Christine and asks her for a date however, Christine declines stating she does not date. Driving home one night after a church fellowship meeting...
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...Women in Psychology Introduction Before recent times, many doctors, or physicians did not want to treat people with terminal illnesses. People with terminal illnesses were often considered as a humiliation to doctors or physicians, as the doctors and physicians were frequently thought of as failures because they could not treat or cure those individuals with life-threatening illnesses. Many times the doctors or physicians justification as to why patients with incurable illnesses were dying was that there was nothing more that could be done, and that there were countless demands that required the doctors or physicians time. The doctor’s unsympathetic and heartless ways towards the terminally ill was ostracized by a doctor from Switzerland by the name of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Thus, she decided to spend time with the patients who were terminally ill to both comfort and study them. This paper will discuss the background of Elizabeth-Kubler-Ross, her theoretical perspective as well as her contributions to the field of psychology. (Chapman, A, 2006). Background Elizabeth Kubler-Ross was born in Zurich, Switzerland, on the 8th day of July in 1926. She was a sister of triplets and a sister to a brother. Elizabeth desperately searched for uniqueness. It was hard enough being a triplet but having a sister who looked exactly the same as her was taking an even bigger toll on her. Since then need to be unique was so bothersome for Elizabeth she would often escape to one of her...
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...While there is an impact of death on family members, there has been little research documenting the reactions and responses of our nurses. A Curtain of Protection Grief is defined as “keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; or painful regret“(Merriam-Webster,2014). Every person in the world has suffered from grief at one point or another in their life, whether it was caused by the loss of a loved one or another reason it has been felt by them. Different people express grief in different ways; it can often bring people together as well as divide them. This is the same for our nurses. One of the nursing functions of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurse is providing care for terminally-ill patients and assists them towards a peaceful death. However, in helping those patients to approach a peaceful death in an intensive care unit, nurses deal with many difficulties such as communicating bad news, counseling the persons’ families, and facilitating a peaceful death when time is limited. ICU nurses frequently face patients’ death and endure not only stressful, physically tiring and culturally challenging but also psychologically and emotionally draining environment which lead them to experience grief. Caring for terminally-ill patients can cause tension, conflict, moral distress, grief, and suffering for critical care nurses that affect job satisfaction and lead nurses to feel burned out (De Castro, 2010)....
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