Option Two: Use the case study
To answer the prompts below, you are welcome to use one of the case studies linked here: Case Studies on Dying and Grieving.docx
Both of the prompt options below ask you about the person’s cultural context. Every person on the planet belongs to multiple cultures (i.e., learned ideas about what’s “normal” and widely shared habits, and etc.). You could talk about the person’s faith community as their cultural context. Or their generation. Or their profession. Or their ethnic heritage.
Wait… what if you want to talk about ethnic heritage, but the person is a white American whose ancestors came to the U.S. long ago? In that case, if you can’t pin down an ethnicity within “white” (e.g., Irish or Russian or etc.), then you could look up info on “Western” or “Euro-American” culture.
Option One: Prompt on Grieving
1. Briefly identify the person whose story you are sharing with demographics and cultural identity (no name).
2. Briefly share the grieving experience.
3. Identify the grieving experience as “complicated” or “normal.” Explain. As you do so, please use something specific from both Lecture 5 and The Long Good-bye article (linked within Lecture 7).
4. Does (or did) this person qualify to be labeled with any of the depressive disorders included in Lecture 4? Briefly explain the symptoms that fit. If the person does not have any depressive disorder, please briefly explain that, too, by referring to some of the symptoms that do not fit.
5. What cultural context is relevant to understanding this person’s grief? Use a reliable source (beyond self) to help you talk about grieving within this person’s culture. Cite it in APA style.
Lecture 7: 1) The Long Good-bye
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/grieving/features/2011/the_long_goodbye/normal_vs_complicated_grief.html)
all other sources are attached files
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