PSY 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Neurosis, No Age, Sexually Transmitted Infection

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3101
• Professor: Mary Theresa Howard

Document Summary

Losses are a fact of life and endings are losses. Bereavement is the objective event of loss. Grief is a persons emotional response to loss- is the total emotional response. Mourning is the process of incorporating the experience of loss: the outward acknowledgment of loss, behaviours are culturally and socially determined. Includes seclusions: wearing black, etc: may start conflict if behaviour is different across generations, persons interpretation of loss is very personal, aspects of death are also very personal in their impact: Fear higher when young, peaks at middle age and is lowest with the elderly (individual differences: death is more acceptable in older age but choosing death is less acceptable, there are various ways of coping: Social support is important in dealing with death. With age comes the inevitability of death and the greater chance of experiencing other"s death: theories: phase, task and process, difference between grieving and mourning: Grieving: intrapersonal dimension of coping with loss.