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experience in Life
Lecturer: Rev Morris Sing Key
Learning Objectives
1. To become familiar with these six losses
2. To apply these losses both for your patients and
yourself.
3. To become sensitive to your patients as they come
to terms with some of the losses caused by their
illness.
Material Loss
MATERIAL LOSS
MATERIAL LOSS
MATERIAL LOSS
MATERIAL LOSS
MATERIAL LOSS
Relationship loss
Relationship loss
It is an unavoidable component of
human life. Sooner or later we all
experience such a loss.
It may be partial, as in moving five
hundred miles away, or total, as with
widowhood
Systemic Loss
Systemic Loss
Functional Loss
Functional Loss
Functional Loss
Functional Loss
Amputation of a limb or breast...the
discovery that one must wear a hearing
Aid, undergoing a colostomy , having to
enter a nursing home because you can no
longer look after yourself ...all these
experiences are functional losses.
Functional Loss
The reaction is grief.
We may be aware that a hearing-impaired
acquaintance is touchy about her hearing
aid or that those who use guide dogs are
sometimes inappropriately angry if others
admire the dog.
What we may miss is that the touchiness
and anger are normal grieving reactions.
Intrapsychic loss
Intrapsychic loss
Intrapsychic loss
We may encounter intrapsychic loss in
times of change or when a major task is
successfully completed.
Buzz Aldrin, the astronaut, referred in
television interviews to the enormous
sense of loss he experiences after setting
foot on the moon.
Role loss
Priests who become bishops, skilled workers who
become supervisors, and others who are promoted
may experience such gains as grief-producing losses as
well.
Role loss
Role loss is also visible when a single
person marries or a married person loses a
spouse.
The middle-aged person who changes
careers or enters school may experience
loss in assuming the roles of a student
Case study
You have been accepted into UPH Medical
school. Your family is not rich and both
mum and dad sacrifice by working long
hours but they think it is worth it .you
will be the first doctor in the family and
they are very proud of you.
Case Study
They are always sharing with everyone that
their son / daughter is studying to be a doctor.
Suddenly you get a call on your mobile.