What do you think might be the most helpful ways for us to both grieve our losses and grow from those grief experiences?
What do you think might be the most helpful ways for us to both grieve our losses and grow from those grief experiences?
May 11, 2020 Comments Off on What do you think might be the most helpful ways for us to both grieve our losses and grow from those grief experiences? Uncategorized Assignment-helpThis developmental psychology class has taken a lifespan perspective—looking at development from womb to tomb. As we arrive at the end of our class, we also turn to that final chapter relating to issues at the end of life. It’s a heavy topic but has relevance for each of our personal lives and many of our professional lives. To prepare for and complete this Discussion Assignment:First, watch the documentary entitled “Being Mortal.” Make sure to budget enough time for it—it’s about 54 minutes in length!You can find the documentary at the following link: https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-being-mortal/.Also, just a heads up that this video features people talking frankly about death including patients who are approaching their own deaths. It can be a tough watch, but also a really touching exploration of how we face our final days. Second, complete the Death Anxiety Scale.This short assessment can be found on the Content page in D2L (under Week #16). The scoring guidelines and the interpretation of this assessment are found on the same document.Third, read the article called “Death Is Not the End: Fascinating Funeral Traditions from Around the Globe,” which can be found at the following link: https://ideas.ted.com/11-fascinating-funeral-traditions-from-around-the-globe/.Fourth, read the article called “Growing from Grief,” at the following link: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-entitlement/201407/growing-griefFifth, review the relevant material from Chapter 10 in your textbook (and you’re welcome to refer to material from other chapters as well, if desired).Sixth, review the Discussion Assignment Guide (DAG) for specific tips on completing this assignment and the expectations on which you’ll be graded. You can find the DAG on the Content page under Week #2. Pay close attention to where the DAG talks about applying and citing concepts from the textbook—this is an essential requirement for your Initial Post!Seventh, consider all of this information as you address the question sets below. These question sets should all be posted together on the same message (but separated by number) as your Initial Post for this assignment (on the Discussions page in D2L, under the discussion area for this Discussion Assignments). Just click on the “Discussion Posts” area for your small group, then “Start a New Thread.” Type in an intriguing subject line, type out your answers to the question sets in the message body, and then click “Post” when done. Once you submit your Initial Post, you’re free to start the Replies to Peers part of the assignment any time after your peers start submitting their Initial Posts.Question Sets:1.What reactions do you have to the documentary that you watched? What did you learn from it? How might you use this information in your own personal and/or professional lives?2.To the extent that you’re comfortable doing so, discuss your Death Anxiety Scale results and your own experiences with death anxiety. How well do your experiences with death anxiety fit with what the textbook says is typical (based on age, gender, culture, other factors)? Alternatively, if you’re not comfortable talking about your own experiences, talk more broadly about how age, gender, culture, and other factors affect people’s death anxiety in general. How might the level of death anxiety that a person experiences affect how they confront the possibility of their own deaths as well as the deaths of their loved ones?3.In physician Sherwin Nuland’s book, “How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter,” he has observed that what people want at the end of their lives is a “death with dignity.” He explains this idea as follows: “The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life. It is the dignity that proceeds from a life well lived and from the acceptance of one’s own death as a necessary process of nature that permits our species to continue in the form of our own children and the children of others…The greatest dignity in death can be found in the integrity of the life that precedes it. This is a form of hope we can all achieve, and it is the most abiding of all. Hope resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.” What are your reactions to his ideas? What does a “death with dignity” mean to you? Did the patients in the documentary achieve “deaths with dignity?”4.What are the potential benefits and risks of physician-assisted suicide practices? What part might these practices play in helping a person to achieve a death with dignity, if any (assuming they would be made legal in your state, if they are not currently)? 5.From the “Death Is Not the End” article, what did you take away from it? What funeral traditions do your own families (or other loved ones) participate in, if any? What do you think is the significance of participating in funeral rites, traditions, and ceremonies? 6.From the “Growing from Grief” article, what did you take away from it? What do you think might be the most helpful ways for us to both grieve our losses and grow from those grief experiences? How might those strategies be influenced by our age, gender, culture, or other aspects of our identity? What factors affect how well we are able to cope with a death? How can you tell if a grief response that a person is experiencing is “normal” or if it has become problematic and abnormal?Links needed-You can find the documentary at the following link: https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-being-mortal/.death is not the end articlehttps://ideas.ted.com/11-fascinating-funeral-traditions-from-around-the-globe/article called “Growing from Grief,” at the following link: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-entitlement/201407/growing-grieftwo in text cited textbook connections are required for this assignment-(Lally & Valentine-French, 2019, p. 172-173). http://dept.clcillinois.edu/psy/LifespanDevelopment.pdf the anxiety scaleDeath Anxiety ScaleDirections