Coping Skills Of People With Amputation: Case Presentation

Amputation is the process of seperation of a part or the whole of the limb form the body, because of medical reasons.If the organ will not cure, or if this situation causes a risk for patient's life, amputation will be needed.Amputation is one of the oldest operations in history.Extremity amputations have both physical and psychological results.Amputaion is a situation that its meaning for individual is not only an organ loss but also loss of body image, function, work and relationships.Individuals give reactions against all the types of loss and they go through a periods which is called mourning period.In this period, people with ampuations's personal characteristics, family support, social support, cultural background and meaning that they give for the loss effects their psychosocial reactios.Coping with an illness, is a dynamic period that changes by the time and coping skills of infividual effects his or her psychosocial reactions.In this study, it is aimed that get across by making synthesize the effects and role of trauma, loss and mour ning reactions in idividual's life, effects of his or her coping skills and reactions, with the light of the presented case.