Developmental Psychology

Achieve Test Prep: Developmental Psychology

- Acceptance: accepting the events which will occur

Bereavement and Grief: Bereavement is the state of feeling deprived of another human life due to their death. Grief includes complex physical and emotional responses. Grief and bereavement may include shock, depression, loneliness, fatigue, emptiness, and numbness (both mental and physical). Each person experiences grief differently and each person deals with their personal grief for different lengths of time. Mourning involves the personal reactions to bereavement, which are influenced by an individual’s culture. Mourning occurs in every culture, with some similarities between most cultures. - Honoring the life and death of the deceased - A socially approved way to handle grief - Social support for the mourners - A way to redefine life and the community without the deceased individual The most difficult deaths to people to comprehend and overcome are premature deaths (death of a child), sudden deaths (car accidents), or stigmatized death (suicide or hate crimes). Right to Die and Euthanasia: In recent years, a new issue has arisen, especially for medical ethics committees--the right to die. Assisted suicides have come controversial among physicians, caregivers, and patients. The lawsuit involving Dr. Kevorkian fed the flames of the controversy. Currently, Oregon is the only state in the USA that allows for physician-assisted suicide. Documents such as advanced directives and living wills help to direct the action a person wishes to occur when they are in a state during which they can no longer advocate for themselves. A DNR, or do-not-resuscitate order, is a limited-advanced directive which instructs medical personnel to allow for what is considered passive euthanasia, but not active euthanasia.

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