Monday, January 16th, 2023, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Classes will not be held on Campus on this specific holiday. However, we still need to make up the missed time by doing an assignment and in order to do so, the powerpoint under week 2 and this discussion post will compensate for that. The assignment is below: Please review the material under modules, week 2, Stages of Grief PowerPoint and reply to this discussion assignment below with at least 250 words and reply to 1 classmate’s discussion response with at least 100 words. Discussion topic is on the: The Kübler-Ross model, commonly known as the five stages of grief. Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross introduced the most commonly taught model for understanding the psychological reaction to imminent death in her 1969 book, On Death and Dying. The book explored the experience of dying through interviews with terminally ill patients and outlined the five stages of dying: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance (DABDA). This work is historically significant as it marked a cultural shift in the approach to conversations regarding death and dying. Prior to her work, the subject of death was somewhat taboo, often talked around or avoided altogether. Dying patients were not always given a voice or choices in their care plan. Some were not even explicitly told about their terminal diagnosis. Her work was popular in both the medical and lay cultures and shifted the nature of conversations around death and dying by emphasizing the experience of the dying patient. This led to new approaches to working with patients through the final phase of life. She highlighted the importance of listening to and supporting their unique experiences and needs and spurred new perspectives on ways practitioners can support terminally ill patients and their family members in adjusting to the reality of impending death. Kubler-Ross and others subsequently applied her model to the experience of loss in many contexts, including grief and other significant life changes. The five stages model of grief has been widely accepted by the general public, taught in educational institutions and used in clinical practice. The recent pandemic has brought a big change in our lives. Do you think human reactions to the covid pandemic followed her model? Do you think we should continue to incorporate her model into current teaching and practice? Remember your initial discussion post needs to have at least 250 words and your response to 1 classmate needs to have at least 100 words. This is from your viewpoint in the discussion. There is no real right answer to this question and please if responding to someone, be nice, I am aware we can all have response biases but still be respectful to others when responding. see pp file:///C:/Users/urd20684/Downloads/file.pdf
