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Six sad stages

Some researchers list six stages of grief in both the burned child and the family. At first there is emotional numbness, when nothing seems real, followed by denial that the burn injury could be as bad as it is. Then comes the anger and guilt, when one asks “why me?”, “why my child?”, “why now?”, “what did I do wrong?”, ‘how could I have let this happen?”. During this stage, both the child and the family re-experience the burn accident in their minds, trying to work out why it happened and what they could have done to prevent it. Although these stages tend to occur one after another, there is a shifting back and forth between emotions and stages. This occurs because burn patients, especially growing children, often need extensive or reconstructive surgery involving repeated adjustment to a new appearance; the process of adjustment for the child and family can be prolonged over many years.
By Bronwen Jones and Charissa Bloomberg
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Page Created By: Gary (admin) 08 July 2004 3:46pm
Page Last Modified: 23 July 2004 9:35am

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