(You can apply these stages to the changes going on in our economy. What stages are those with different beliefs in? The following are quoted from articles-mackie)
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was born on July 8, 1926 in Zürich, Switzerland, one of triplets. Elizabeth was born fifteen minutes before her identical sister. Minutes after came her fraternal sister. [2] She graduated from the University of Zürich medical school in 1957.
She moved to the United States in 1958 to work and continue her studies in New York.
As she began her practice, she was appalled by the hospital treatment of patients who were dying. She began giving a series of lectures featuring terminally ill patients, forcing medical students to confront people who were dying. Her extensive work with the dying led to On Death and Dying in 1969. She wrote over 20 additional books on the subject of dying.
She also proposed the now famous Five Stages of Grief as a pattern of phases, most or all of which people tend to go through, not always in sequence, after being faced with the tragedy of their own impending death. The five stages of grief, in sequential order, are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The five stages have since been adopted by many as applying to the survivors of a loved one’s death, as well.
Click on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_K%C3%BCbler-Ross and
The stages are:
- Denial:
- Example – “I feel fine.”; “This can’t be happening.”‘Not to me!”
- Anger:
- Example – “Why me? It’s not fair!” “NO! NO! How can you accept this!”
- Bargaining:
- Example – “Just let me live to see my children graduate.”; “I’ll do anything, can’t you stretch it out? A few more years.”
- Depression:
- Example – “I’m so sad, why bother with anything?”; “I’m going to die . . . What’s the point?”
- Acceptance:
- Example – “It’s going to be OK.”; “I can’t fight it, I may as well prepare for it.”
Kübler-Ross originally applied these stages to any form of catastrophic personal loss (job, income, freedom). This also includes the death of a loved one, divorce, drug addiction, or infertility. Kübler-Ross also claimed these steps do not necessarily come in the order noted above, nor are all steps experienced by all patients, though she stated a person will always experience at least two.
Others have noticed that any significant personal change can elicit these stages. For example, experienced criminal defense attorneys are aware that defendants who are facing stiff sentences, yet have no defenses or mitigating factors to lessen their sentences, often experience the stages. Accordingly, they must get to the acceptance stage before they are prepared to plead guilty.
Additionally, the change in circumstances does not always have to be a negative one, just significant enough to cause a grief response to the loss (Scire, 2007). Accepting a new work position, for example, causes one to lose their routine, workplace friendships, familiar drive to work, or even customary lunch sources.
(Her model has been adapted for many changes that occur in our personal and business lives. -mackie)