Grief Support Group Analysis

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The purpose of grief support groups are analyzed using the intervention wheel, which evaluate the grief support groups as a tool in improving the mental health of the University of Saskatchewan population. There are three elements that produce the intervention wheel: first, population based, second, it includes three levels of practice – community, system, and individual, and third the model identifies 17 public health interventions (Keller, Strohschein, Hoagber, & Schaffer, 2004). Interventions are actions public health nurses use to improve the health of the population (Keller, Strohschein, Hoagber, & Schaffer, 2004). Implementation of a grief support groups will improve the mental health of a select group of individuals in the university …show more content…

Nurses participate in this intervention by addressing health concerns and supporting individuals and groups of students at the University of Saskatchewan campus (Schaffer, Anderson, and Rising, 2015). Grief support groups as an intervention falls in the realm of counseling, where there is an establishment of an interpersonal relationship with a community, a system, and family or individual to increase or enhance their capacity for self care and coping (Keller, Strohschein, Hoagber, & Schaffer, 2004). Counseling can engage a community, a system, and family or individuals that are suffering from grief, and through supports and therapy the needs of the students are addressed on an emotional level (Keller, Strohschein, Hoagber, & Schaffer, …show more content…

Secondary prevention detects and treats problems in the early stages. It keeps problems, such as grief, from causing long-term effects; where early grief can lead to complicated grief, anxiety disorders, depression, mood disorders, and maybe even suicide if left unaddressed (Keller, Strohschein, Hoagber, & Schaffer, 2004). A grief support group can identify risks or hazards and modifies, removes, or treats problems before they become more serious (Keller, Strohschein, Hoagber, & Schaffer, 2004). Grief support groups would act as a secondary intervention and a support group would be implemented after the problem has occured, such as a great loss in one’s life, but before signs and symptoms appear, such as depression or anxiety (uOttawa, 2015). Grief is a natural reaction to the loss of a person, but checks and balances need to be in place to prevent grief from becoming pathological, a mental illness, and completely

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