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Ella MacCallum SOC350_01 Prof. Raynor September 5th, 2021

3. What stood out to you? I’d like to quickly point out a slight contradiction that I thought of when reading the two articles. In Goldsworthy (2005), there is a quote in which people dealing with loss face “much more subtle and symbolic losses…” than we realize because in dealing a greater loss, there is a realization that what one had experienced in their life before the tragic event could never be lived again. Therefore, it surprised me in Jackson (2003) when it was said that “the social worker might suggest that the client bring photos and use them as jumping-off points for talking about various...events in the life of a couple.” My main thought was if a social worker has to be hyperaware of smaller losses within a big one, why would they also have a client bring photos of past moments in their life to relive when that just reminds them of said smaller losses? It interested me and is something I’d like to explore further.

6. How might others use information like this in the “real world”? As Goldsworthy (2005) puts perfectly, “Whenever people experience change they are touched by loss in one form or another in its ensuing grief.” We live in an individualistic society where we tend to forget that loss and grief can come in many different waves and forms. If it’s not our own loss, we tend to care about it less. In order to change that mindset, we need to take a more collectivist approach to help people in our community deal with these losses. As Jackson

(2003) says, “Community support...is essential to the goal of grief work.” It’s important for others, either close to the victim or not, to be open to the idea of working as a community to help those dealing with loss deal with it. Even the smallest bit of loss needs to garner a sufficient amount of support from those around them because change is really hard to deal with.

11. What’s most interesting to me as a thinker? Jackson’s 2003 article stood out to me emotionally because as someone in the LGBTQ community, it’s touching to me to realize that while I may have gotten lucky with the abundance of support from family and friends, some people might not have been so lucky. We live in a world today, in 2021, where acceptance is abundant, gay marriage is legal, and the idea of homosexual relationships is becoming more and more normalized. Not even 20 years ago, someone had to go through exactly what the “roommate” was going through because of the stigma against gay marriage. They weren’t able to go through steps like those of the Task Theory discussed in Goldsworthy (2005) in order to separate themselves from the deceased because simply put, the deceased was the only thing keeping them together. The only part of their identity that was living and around to remind them of that part of themselves. How are they supposed to move on healthily without that? I think that’s something worth looking into.

Reference Goldsworthy, K.K (2005, June.) Grief and Loss theory in Social Work Practice: All Changes involve loss, just as all losses require change. Retrieved September 5th, 2021 from https://bbnewpaltz.sln.suny.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-3588426-dt-content-rid-4043784_2/courses/fall 17_merged_soc350_raynor/spring15_SOC350_01_ImportedContent_20150109092557/fall14_S OC350_02_ImportedContent_20140731020106/Goldsworthy%20-%20Grief%20and%20Loss% 20Theory.pdf Jackson, K. (2003, June.) Disenfranchised Grief. The Grief that does not Speak. Retrieved September 5th from https://bbnewpaltz.sln.suny.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-3588427-dt-content-rid-4043783_2/courses/fall 17_merged_soc350_raynor/spring15_SOC350_01_ImportedContent_20150109092557/fall14_S OC350_02_ImportedContent_20140731020106/Disenfranchised%20grief%204.pdf...