Effects of Disaster on Specific Groups
• Women
• Children
Childs view of death at various developmental stages
Instants: -
• No
comprehension but sense something has happened
• Recognize
that people around them are unhappy, sad or worried and become frightened
• May
change eating, sleeping, toilet habits
Pre-school:
• They
may view death as something that you wake up from it is reversible
• Family
is center of their world and they are confident that family will care for their
needs.
5 – 9 years
• Often
feel responsible for the events and the less
• Begin
to realize that death is final believe it will never happen to them or anyone
they know
• Tend
to personify death. They may associate death with a skeleton or have nightmares
about them.
9-12 years
• Start
recognizing that death is permanent and common to anyone who is alive.
• They
can have somatic complains:.
(experience
and reporting of bodily symptoms that are suggestive of medical illness but
cannot be fully explained medically)
• They
may deny the loss and get on their life.
• Worry
about who will care for them. May regress to an earlier stage of development
• They
may guilty and also try and become very good to overcome this guilty.
Adolescents: -
• Have
adult notions and view death as inevitable, universal and irreversible
• They
are trying to be independent and they will feel dependent when they face a loss
• They
have to very confusing and may have suicidal thoughts
• They
will question life itself and want a lot of discussions. Need someone to
listen, to talk with.
• They
think about their own death, this can be frightening and they may withdraw and
deny the loss.
• They
feel guilty, anger, even some responsibility for death that occurred.
• Not
sure how to handle own emotions in public or private, they need adult guidance.
Elderly
• The
physically, mentally or developmentally disabled
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