Grief & Stress, connected. A case study
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | R&D Presentation |
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| Description | By its very own nature, stress is closely connected with grief. W.H.O. (1993) also connects stress& grief (ICD 10 / F.42). Our working hypothesis presumed, that we can anticipate and confront Grief as it would be Stress. In an incident of a child death (from fatal illness) in a Greek family we addressed grief mainly with Stress Reduction Techniques (SRT) in an effort to support family. Also we monitored grief levels indirectly using Stress assessment. We also tried to support the same way the child s teacher. Indications both from observation and the assessments were encouraging. During this study we also developed the PSS (Perceived Stress Scale) -GR using double blind & reverse translation to create a Greek language version out of the original PSS (Perceived Stress Scale) 10 - En. Finally we found out that Stress management approach seems to work, but of course that is only an indication since complicated grief usually shows up (if ever) after the sixth month (some time after a year), when the subject finds it unbearable to return to normal life. In any case we have (at least) a strong indication that Stress Reduction Techniques (STR) are most helpful in cases of stress that comes out of grief. |
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