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Published in Doreen Kenworthy, Mavis Kirkham, Midwives Coping with Loss and Grief, 2019
Doreen Kenworthy, Mavis Kirkham
Lindemann’s early study following a tragic fire in Boston (1944), creates the enduring concept of ‘grief work’: grieving as an active process. He identifies that individuals who confronted their emotional pain, isolation and alteration in their social status reached the point of acceptance of their loss sooner than the group who remain in a state of denial. From this the theory of ‘delayed grief’ emerged. If the bereavement occurs at a time when the individual is confronted with important tasks and when there is necessity for the maintaining of the morale of others, he may show little or no reaction for weeks or even much longer.(144)
Grief and Bereavement
Published in Stephen R. Connor, Hospice and Palliative Care, 2017
Delayed grief is found in those who after many months are unable to grieve and are distressed that they are unable to move on. The flip side of this is prolonged grief, where a person continues to grieve for years and cannot seem to stop.
MRCPsych Paper A1 Mock Examination 1: Answers
Published in Melvyn WB Zhang, Cyrus SH Ho, Roger Ho, Ian H Treasaden, Basant K Puri, Get Through, 2016
Melvyn WB Zhang, Cyrus SH Ho, Roger CM Ho, Ian H Treasaden, Basant K Puri
Explanation: Distorted grief is associated with intense anger or guilt. The person may develop symptoms that the deceased had prior to death. Other signs of distorted grief are over-activity without a sense of loss hostility towards a specific person and taking self-destructive actions. Since the duration is only 6 months, he does not qualify for chronic grief. Conflicted grief refers to intense ambivalent feeling towards the deceased. Delayed grief refers to a bereaved person who does not show any grief reaction after the deceased person died but grief reaction only comes after a delayed period. Inhibited grief refers to some feelings towards the deceased, which is not expressed.
The potential impact of bereavement grief on workers, work, careers, and the workplace
Published in Social Work in Health Care, 2020
Donna M. Wilson, Andrea Rodríguez-Prat, Gail Low
All participants revealed a need for accommodation to return to work and help them regain their ability to work. Accommodation is defined as workplace changes that are implemented to enable work return and assist the person’s capacity or ability to perform work (Government of Canada, 2011; Human Rights Legal Support Centre, 2017). For instance, one participant advised that: “people go back to work when they are still grieving, they move through the stages of grief and sometimes delayed grief at work. It is normal to be distracted, sad, upset at work; even for months after the death” (P13). Participant #9 spoke of going back to work severely sleep deprived; she knew she was not able to function at work as she had before the illness that “killed” her husband, and so she could only work short workdays. Another stated she was grateful for accommodation as she was “drained and could not work full time” when she went back to work (P6). Moreover, all working participants reported having difficulty on work return, for instance: “I had grief brain; I could not focus at work” (P14), “I was distracted, sad, upset” (P13), “I had low concentration, and out of the blue I would think about death and be overwhelmed” (P12), and “I needed longer to think and make decisions” (P14).