Bereavement Group Paper
Group Development Paper
Scott Emmel
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
Abstract
The group being established is based on bereavement. The focus of the group being formed is to help individuals who are suffering with grief and loss. The group was formed to provide support and process for the suffering individuals. The group is formed with normal functioning individuals who are only suffering from loss and suffering. To help these individuals with their bereavement issues, interventions and goals were made to help support, manage and process grief and morning. The group will bring perspective and awareness into the group members lives. Evaluations will be determined by the group leader with the process of evaluations they have chosen to use. Ethics and cultural issues have been taken into consideration when forming the group.
Type of Group
The group that is being formed will be a bereavement group. This specific bereavement group will be focused on working with individuals to process their individual grief and mourning, as well as provide support. Bereavement is a process that every individual must endure in their lifetime. To better understand grief, Underwood (2004) explains some elements of grief. Grief is a dynamic and a developing process. The process of grief includes psychological, behavioral, social, and physical reactions to loss, and grief is involved with all types of losses, not just to losses related to death (p. 293).
Bereavement also has five different stages of loss and grief, which are denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance stated by Axelrod (2006). All five stages take time and process to work through them. This group will allow individuals to express their emotions and mortality to the group. Bereavement is a process that many people cannot endure without support around them. The bereavement group that is being formed will be used as another source of support that suffering individuals can
Scott Emmel
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
Abstract
The group being established is based on bereavement. The focus of the group being formed is to help individuals who are suffering with grief and loss. The group was formed to provide support and process for the suffering individuals. The group is formed with normal functioning individuals who are only suffering from loss and suffering. To help these individuals with their bereavement issues, interventions and goals were made to help support, manage and process grief and morning. The group will bring perspective and awareness into the group members lives. Evaluations will be determined by the group leader with the process of evaluations they have chosen to use. Ethics and cultural issues have been taken into consideration when forming the group.
Type of Group
The group that is being formed will be a bereavement group. This specific bereavement group will be focused on working with individuals to process their individual grief and mourning, as well as provide support. Bereavement is a process that every individual must endure in their lifetime. To better understand grief, Underwood (2004) explains some elements of grief. Grief is a dynamic and a developing process. The process of grief includes psychological, behavioral, social, and physical reactions to loss, and grief is involved with all types of losses, not just to losses related to death (p. 293).
Bereavement also has five different stages of loss and grief, which are denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance stated by Axelrod (2006). All five stages take time and process to work through them. This group will allow individuals to express their emotions and mortality to the group. Bereavement is a process that many people cannot endure without support around them. The bereavement group that is being formed will be used as another source of support that suffering individuals can