Helping Professions in Hospice Care

The thesis deals with the experience of the death of a close person of the workers helping professions in Hospice care. The first part of the bachelor thesis is focused on the theoretical definition of mourning in general. It defines the very concept and process of mourning, which is followed by manifestations of mourning within the overall complexity of man. Furthermore, the views of experts on the various stages of mourning are described and compared. The conclusion is devoted to the description of uncomplicated and complicated mourning and the difference between them. The following section extends the general concept of mourning to the personal experience of the death of a close person of the workers in helping professions in Hospice care who encountered the loss of a person before practicing the profession. The research part focuses mainly on their coping with the loss of a loved one, whether this experience influenced them for choosing a profession in hospice care and how this death affects their performance within their profession. The last part deals with the processing of a loss and the risks of an unprocessed loss