Grief and occupational participation in members of a funeral home organization

Abstract

This research was aimed to determine the relationship of grief and life cycle in occupational participation from adolescence to old age members of the organization funeral home hope, which was very important to resume the conceptual basis from Occupational Therapy, to provide a focus for intervention from our area, one for this Model of Human Occupation (RUST, Kielhofner 2008), talks about the participation in occupations that provide meaning and satisfaction, which support the physical and emotional well-being People influenced collectively by performance capacity, habituation, volition and environmental conditions when a critical event such as the loss of a loved one occurs, a duel, which interferes occupation, habits, routines, interest is assumed , expectations for success, responsibilities and execution of different occupational roles. For this study in the first degree of consanguinity, which is subdivided according to the life cycle of 15 teenagers, 15 young adults, 15 mature adults and 15 elderly users, and in turn taking up the stages of grief is selected; the research was of mixed type through the implementation of the Occupational Performance Historic Interview version 2.0 (OPHI - II) and the list of roles, finding through statistical analysis of the correlation of variables, significantly relationship to have into account in the process of occupational participation of people grieving, here it was evident as social and family, work and / or school after the critical event inevitability of losing a loved one, giving us results for the Occupational therapy work as innovative processes psychosocial intervention.