A Sample

On
Supporting Significant
Life Events

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1 ............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 life changing events and their impacts ............................................................................. 1
1.2 Possible group responses to significant life event encountered by a staff member ......... 2
1.3 Supporting residents and other staff members after the death of long term and very greatly
liked resident .......................................................................................................................... 3
TASK 2 ............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Evaluating the effectiveness of an organization's policies and procedures for supporting
individuals affected by the death of a closed one .................................................................. 3
2.2 family and friends / their religious community offer support to an individual who has just
experienced the death of a long term partner ......................................................................... 4
2.3 external sources of support for individuals experiencing the significant life events ....... 6
TASK 3 ............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 organizational responses to the need to support individuals experiencing a significant life
event ....................................................................................................................................... 7
3.2 personal contributions to the support of individuals experiencing specified significant life
events...................................................................................................................................... 7
3.3 Making recommendations to bring more efficient support system in the organization ... 8
CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................9

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INTRODUCTION
Since early childhood, every individual experiences many events in life. In the course of
time, daily regular events are sometimes accompanied by combination of expected and
unexpected events. In those events some imparts significant impact on life, personality,
perception and working of an individual. Favorable events change life in positive perspectives
whereas some imparts negative impact in lives of individual by inducing stress, psychological
pressure and personal problems. A person experiencing change requires support to overcome the
problems he is facing. Help is provided in the form of family and social support and by
professional care services. It enables them to cope up with the event and experience and also deal
with the change and stress (Arhant Sudhir, Arhant Sudhir and Sudhir, 2011). Report is
prepared to outline different life changing events and support offered by health and social care
services.

TASK 1
1.1 life changing events and their impacts
While moving in different course of life, there are some important events which changes
life in a very significant manner. It fills the life with anticipation and excitement. These are the
changes that move an individual a step forward. It can be anything new career, expanding family
or something which brings positively in the form of big push. On the other hand, there are some
unexpected and unwilling changes that changes course of life in considerable way by dawning
down the working of life such as death of a loved one, an accident, diagnosis of a malignant
disease, marriage terminal or something a person is not willing to step in. So far there are three
such events that have changed my life in a very significant manner.

Transfer in other city: One such event that has impacted significantly in changing my
perception and molding my personality is when our family was moved to another city
when I was in fifth grade (Bale and et.al, 2010). My father is working in bank as a branch
manager. The organization has opened another branch in suburban region of London. For
that we had to shift in that area in the middle of session. It brought change in every aspect

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of my life; change in school, city, friends and neighbor. I had faced many difficulties to
adapt into new life style. Being introvert, I could not make friends easily that make me
fall into isolation. It has also impacted on my academic results. There was fall in my
grades. But gradually with the help of family support I managed to cope up with the
situation.

Close friend diagnosed with malignant disease: Among all the relations, friendship with
one of my close friend has been the most important part of life. The close and friendly
relation with him had created a non breaking bond between us. During first semester of
graduation course he was diagnosed with a malignant disease. This news has shaken me
completely. As a friend I had to support him in at the time harsh and tough treatment and
at the same time I was experiencing a deep grief. It has brought significant changes in my
personality. It broke me immensely (Cohen, 2004). A support was detaching from my life
gradually. I had identified the development of many traits in my personality such as
responsibility towards friendship, sensitivity towards matters and the ways to deal with
them.

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Job opportunity in different country: After passing a professional degree course, I was
offered a very nice job opportunity in a country in another continent. Seeing the
possibility of career progression I had accepted this offer. Going to country with totally

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different culture has brought significant transition in my life. Initially I faced problem to
adjust in that area but gradually became familiar with the environment and culture.
1.2 Possible group responses to significant life event encountered by a staff member
Working in a health and social care service center I had identified that support and help
given by colleagues and friends at the time when he is facing some problems in personal or
professional grounds plays a significant role to cope up with the situation and come out of that.
A Staff member was undergoing financial crises due to some unexpected expenditures
and events in his family. For that purpose he was doing work for extra time as well. This will
enable him to get extra money and will improve financial condition. External support is provided
to him to get him out of this challenging time. Many organizations function to grant financial
help to the needy employees on low interest rates. Further, motivational and inspiring sessions by
expertise and specialists helps to deal with this and keep oneself motivated. All these methods
have helped him to come out of state of depression and anxiety (Bremer and et.al, 2004). The
mutual support given by surrounding is the crucial factor to deal with these situations and come
out of this.
1.3 Supporting residents and other staff members after the death of long term and very greatly
liked resident
Staff working in a residential home with persons suffering from different mental health
issues is required to deal with the patients in a very precise and sensitive way. They encounter
the patients with variety of mental health problems. Staff members are engaged in the treatment
of patients at all the stages (Cohen, 2004). Dealing with and providing intimate care to the
patients with psychiatric disorders, medical mental conditions and the one substance to abuse
problems. While undergoing the process of their treatments a bond of care and sensitivity is
formed with them. It involves performing various task such as providing them the prescribed
treatments, intimating them proper care, motivating them to make them feel early cure, taking
care of their daily tasks and many other related. After all these efforts and a bond created when a
patient dies it affects the staff members of resident care significantly. Being a staff member of a

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residential care unit for mental health patient, it is a very crucial task to console other staff and
residents on a death of patients. To help them to come out of that situation and deal with the
situation various steps was adopted.

Initial consolation to the staff members and residents is a very crucial task. Handling at
the time just after the death of patient becomes very difficult. With the help of consultants
and psychiatrist, physical and mental state is assessed and accordingly steps were taken.

Immediately a team of expertise and specialists were called to help them in dealing with
the grief. Components such as making them feeling about malignancy of disease and
inevitability of event. It helps to cope up with the situation (Cooper and et.al, 2007).

2.1 Evaluating the effectiveness of an organization's policies and procedures for supporting
individuals affected by the death of a closed one
To bring out the employees who have undergone the grief of losing a patient or closed,
organizations have different policies and procedures. Post effect of losing a closed one is very
crucial for the organization. It affects the working of organization in various aspects. It brings
down the morale of employees. Efficiency and productivity of employees largely get affected.
Working of staff members of health and social care is not limited to themselves only. Horizon of
their working is very wide as they are supposed to deal with large number of patients undergoing
mental health treatments. So death of a patient and its post affect is to be immediately controlled
by the organization (Dais and et.al, 2008). It includes conducting consultation sessions and
programs for the recovery of staff members and other patients. It is conducted for the recovery of
staff members from the grief and sadness. The effectiveness of policies and procedures adopted
by organization is assessed on various grounds.

With the help of multi-professional team, formal and informal discussions are organized
to develop a robust understanding of the degree of coping of staff members from that
unexpected and unwilling incident happened in the health and social care unit. The
process is undertaken by the individual or a team who knows the family and person very
closely (Fein, 2004).

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Assessment is done that families and relatives of staff members are intimately connected
in the process to make staff to cope up with the situation and come out of it.

The evaluation is made about the process adopted by the organization to offer support to
the staff members and relatives. Step by step evaluation is made. Pro-activity is assessed
on the grounds of degree of involvement of the management of organization.
Administering the process plays a key role in assessment of process adopted.

An interactive session is organized to check the pre bereavement and post bereavement
condition of individuals. Policies and procedures to make staff members cope up with
situation have to be started just after the death of patient. Further, by checking the gap of
time duration between the implementation and projected time, the relevancy of process is
assessed. Further, with the stated methods, a comparison is made about the mental and
physical state before and after bereavement to check the effectiveness of steps adopted by
organization (Hareven, 2013).

2.2 family and friends / their religious community offer support to an individual who has just
experienced the death of a long term partner
A person experiencing the death of long term partner is a very crucial condition for to
deal with. It leads to fall in various other psychological problems. Not only psychological it also
affects the health of a person mentally and physically. For that person to come out that situation

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and cope up with the circumstances become extremely difficult. In that condition, family
members, relatives and friends play vital role in supporting them. They offer them help in
various aspects and dimensions. Only through this help a person is able to get back to its
previous and normal life (Harrison and Vannest, 2008). To make them adapt to the unwilling and
unexpected situation, these steps are adopted by the closed ones:

Time just after the death of long term partner is very crucial for a bereaved person and his
family. At that time it is the prime duty of loved ones to check if this incident is affecting
very rigorously to the person. In case of emergency, immediately medical treatments is
required to be seek by family members (Huebner, 2004).

Time is very good healer. Realizing the significance of giving time to need to understand
so that the bereaved person gets time to come out of the situation in natural manner. But
this is to be adopted in the vigilance of a person so that at the time of need help can be
offered.

Financial help is offered by relatives and family members so that the unexpected incident
does not affect them on monetary grounds. Family and relatives understands the
sensitivity of the issues and offers help.

A practical way is also adopted by loved ones to get them out of the situation.
Consultation and interactive sessions are organized under the supervision of expertise and
specialists to help them deal with situation psychologically.

Religious community also plays a significant role in supporting a bereaved person. They
spiritually awaken them about the inevitability of such incidents and help them realize the
fact (Johns and et.al, 2004).

Offer support to an individual who has experienced a life-threatening heart attack

A person experiencing life threatening heart attack needs help in various aspects.
Immediate help and support is required to be given to avoid tragedy and mis-happening. Not
only an individual experiencing attacks, it is also required to offer support and help to their
families and relatives. Support is offered in two grounds like medical aid and moral support.

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Immediate medical aid is given to the patient so that any delay does not occur. To avoid
any mis-happening with the patient the precise treatment is to be given by the
professional doctor. This part includes that with any requirement of any formalities such
as filling of forms and details, the process of treatment is started (Litvinov, Kotowycz and
Wassmann, 2009).

Along with this morale support is also provided to the patient and family and relatives.

2.3 external sources of support for individuals experiencing the significant life events
In order to support the person experiencing certain life threatening or serious diseases,
support is offered in the form of various methods with the help of external and other sources.

Terminal illness of a child: When a child is suffering from a terminal illness, the family,
relatives and friends face very crucial time to deal with. They are required to be offered
support in various forms. Giving support to the young child is a very sensitive matter
because it inculcates various factors such as considering the illness of child, the problems
and circumstances child is undergoing, helping them to come out of the situation and
helps him to undergo the treatment in a very easy manner (Lucas and et.al, 2004).
Support to the child offered in the form of three external sources: Family and relatives;
support from doctors and lastly through the team of professionals such as consultants.

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Macular Degeneration: Macular degeneration is a commonly occurring disease in upper

age people in which person suffering with the disease experience severe vision loss. This
is a very delicate and sensitive matter to deal with for family members of patient. When a
person had live his life on his own and suddenly he loss vision, his dependency of family
increases to the large extent (Murgatroyd and et.al, 2009). This affects patient
significantly leading to psychological distress and depression. To help the patient and
support him three external sources play a crucial role such as family and relatives,
financial and employment providers and psychiatrist consultation. Fundamentally support
provided by family and relatives to make them feel independent play a vital role in it.
They make feel self dependency and confident. Further, the policies and procedures adopt
by government to help physically challenged people to make them feel confident and
independent are provision of certain fixed composition of appointment in organizations.
It makes them financially independent (Pariante and Lightman, 2008).

3.1 organizational responses to the need to support individuals experiencing a significant life
event
When an individual experience life changing event, it affects the productivity and
efficiency of the employees in the significant manner. Employees working in a health and social
sector are required to provide the intimate care to the patients by offering them full support and
proper treatment as prescribed by the doctors of the organization. Patient undergoing the
treatment of malignant of non benign diseases face many problems. Staff is trained to give them
the best treatment and care in all respects. Further, at the time of emergency also they are trained
to take crucial steps and methods (Polkinghorne, 2007). Realizing the need organization take
different steps to overcome the problem when a staff member experience a life changing event
and undergoing many problems related to that. Organization is prepared in this respect in a very
efficient manner such as different policies are made in this respect like financial assistance is
given at the time of need, morale support is provided to the staff member so that he come out of
the situation in very efficient manner and recover fast, recreational methods are adopted to deal

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with the situation. Financial assistance provided and psychological support given to them helps
the employee in a very significant manner.
3.2 personal contributions to the support of individuals experiencing specified significant life
events
To support an individual who had experienced a life changing event it is very important
to deal in a very precise and effective manner. My experience in dealing with the situation when
a person is undergoing grief of such situation or incident happened in his life was very difficult. I
had an experience in the following regard when I have to deal with the person experiencing life
changing events (Pollitt, Rose and Kaufman, 2005).
When I was working in an organization, one of my colleague was suffering from a very
serious life threatening disease. At the time when we came to know about the incident it was
very unexpected and shocking for all of us. Just after the intimation of his disease several steps
were undertaken to help the person and provide him the support such as financial help and moral
support. Apart from this, I had various contacts with professional in that field so ttried to help
him by providing the best medication for the treatment (Pruessner and et.al, 2004).
3.3 Making recommendations to bring more efficient support system in the organization
In-spite of having very efficient support system in the organization, there is the
requirement of certain amendments in these aspects:

Policy: Need to bring changes in the policy such as to increase the number of leaves
granted to the persons experiencing life changing events such as providing financial help.

Organizational structure: There is need to bring changes in the organizational structure

such as inculcating one more department dealing with these issues.

Accommodation and facilities: There is the requirement to make some facilities for the
persons experiencing such events. By arranging a separate place or compartment for the
stay of persons experiencing such events (Robertson and et.al, 2004).

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CONCLUSION
From the above study prepared it can be inferred that there are many lives changing event
experienced by persons which impacts significantly on working and efficiency. For that purpose,
support and help is granted from various sources such as family, relatives, friends and various
organizations which help them to deal with the situation and cope up with that.

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