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Whose death is the patient dealing with?Tap a term: its definition, what you can do with it, and how often the exam asks it.
You can: Tell numbness from denial by whether the person grieves a death or faces their own death.
Definition: the second phase, with longing for the dead and sometimes a sensed presence.
You can: Name yearning and searching when a bereaved person looks for the dead or senses their presence.
Definition: the third Bowlby and Parkes phase.
You can: Tell disorganisation and despair from depression by the model each belongs to.
Definition: the fourth and last Bowlby and Parkes phase.
You can: Name reorganisation as the last of Bowlby and Parkes's phases.
Definition: the first Kubler-Ross response to impending death.
You can: Tell denial from numbness by the model each belongs to.
Definition: the second Kubler-Ross response to impending death.
You can: Name anger as the second stage in Kubler-Ross's list.
Definition: the third Kubler-Ross response, found in no Bowlby phase.
You can: Tell bargaining from yearning and searching by whether the person faces their own death.
Definition: the fourth Kubler-Ross response to impending death.
You can: Tell depression from disorganisation and despair by the model each belongs to.
Definition: the fifth and last Kubler-Ross response.
You can: Name acceptance as the last stage in Kubler-Ross's list.
Each card is one term. The grey line is what the patient says, which is what the question stem gives.
Summary
- Numbness: the first Bowlby and Parkes phase of grief after a death.
Numbness is the first of Bowlby and Parkes's four phases of grief.
Numbness is the first of Bowlby and Parkes's four phases of grief. This model describes a bereaved person after a death.
Grief models describe early shock and disbelief, then acute discomfort and withdrawal, then restitution and reorganisation. The phases overlap. The models are general guides and prescribe no single correct course. Denial looks like numbness at first. Denial belongs to Kubler-Ross's list for a person facing their own death.
Tom sees his GP a week after his wife's funeral. Tom says, "I feel nothing at all."
Numbness follows the death of someone else.
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