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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Ambiguous Loss"”.
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Ambiguous Loss For Caregivers of Family Members With Dementia
… pertaining to how grief reactions and losses shift over the progression of the Alzheimer disease and related dementias, and how caregivers experience ambiguous loss. Five caregivers of spouses with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias participated in this study, recruited from the …
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Indicators of Ambiguous Loss in Families with Traumatic Brain Injured Members
… caregivers and experience increased stress and ambiguous losses (AL). These losses are often unacknowledged even by the family and cause significant distress. It is important that the family acknowledge these losses and allow themselves time to grieve and adapt to the changes in their lives. …
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Ambiguous Loss of Dementia: Identity Exploration through Narrative Inquiry and Collage
… with dementia are at risk of experiencing the ambiguous loss of losing their parent’s remembered personality, yet still maintaining their physical presence. Having no physical evidence of loss creates a disconcerting grief process and possible identity crisis. Boss (2006) suggests this type of …
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Understanding Czech Children’s Experiences of Parental Incarceration – Ambiguous Loss and Gain
… how these experiences can be interpreted using Ambiguous Loss (and Ambiguous Gain) theory (Boss, 2007). The experiences of Czech children of prisoners and their primary caregivers are under-represented in academic literature; there is only one research study on this topic published to date …
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Investigating the Theory of Ambiguous Loss: The Role of Ambiguity Tolerance in Pre-Death Grief for Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia
… and caregiver grief within the framework of ambiguous loss theory. Thirty-one family caregivers completed a quantitative survey comprising two pre-existing scales and several demographic questions designed to assess level of ambiguity tolerance, level of grief, caregiver age and gender, type …
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A Needs Assessment of Caregiving Parents to Children with Substantial Disabilities
… that are affected by the concept of parental ambiguous loss. Using boundary ambiguity as a predictor of ambiguous loss, this study quantitatively explored levels of ambiguous loss experienced by caregiver parents. Results showed that ambiguous loss, as exhibited through boundary ambiguity …
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Adolescents and Adaptation: The Experience Of Youth In Military Families Dealing With Parental Deployment
… those that are associated with the phenomenon of ambiguous loss. To examine the data this qualitative study used the constant comparative as well as modified analytic induction. Focus groups of 107 adolescents ranging in age from 11 to 15 were used to find five high adjustment adolescents and five …
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Helpful and unhelpful elements of support for families with missing loved ones
… suggests families left behind to cope with the ambiguous loss of a missing loved one will experience a range of problematic emotions which often leads to physical symptoms and deteriorating health. This research explores the lived experiences of family members with missing loved ones who have …
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"I'm still here": adolescent social orphans in Colombian state care: the process of identity formation in the absence of permanency
… to how culture norms influence the experience of ambiguous loss. Yet this population of children is vast; UNICEF (2012) estimates a total of 151 million orphans worldwide of which at least 8 million languish in institutions (RELAF, 2010). Due to complex social conditions, approximately 40,000 …
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A Qualitative Study of Non-Caregiving Adult Children's Experiences of a Parent's Alzheimer's Disease
… of phenomenology, family systems theory, and ambiguous loss, in-depth interviews were conducted with three individuals and were coded for themes. The main themes found included externalization of symptoms, belief in the Alzheimer's diagnosis, acceptance, flexibility, sibling and parental …
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The Grief Experience of Caregivers When the Child Has a Life Threatening Illness
… evaluated through the lenses of Chronic Sorrow, Ambiguous Loss and Anticipatory Grief. This study was conducted at the Loma Linda University Medical Center Hematology Oncology Pediatric Clinic and was completed by 106 participants who responded to a quantitative survey with open-ended questions. …
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The study of being an adult daughter of a hoarding mother: A qualitative description
… include support for using systems theory, ambiguous loss and attachment frameworks. This study also provides valuable information relevant to participants need to normalize their experiences.
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Ghost Kingdoms and Phantom Worlds: Narrative strategies in adoptee autofiction
… fictions are adoptee responses to trauma and ambiguous loss, so they serve as an important building block for identity development in addition to acting as a substitute for a significant gap of knowledge about the self. To fill this gap, they create narratives that are fictional, yet they make …
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Parental alienation and targeted parents: loss, coping, and social support
… Alienated parents often suffer some sort of loss of their child (e.g., emotional connection, physical contact, or both) as a consequence of parental alienation. Due to the nature of this loss, we argue that parental alienation can lead to ambiguous loss that the targeted parent must learn to …
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The Lived Experiences of Males within a Committed Relationship Who Are the Primary Caregivers for a Partner Diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia
… they experience interdependence and intimacy and ambiguous loss within the relationship. This study found male primary caregivers for a partner with FTD are deeply emotionally impacted by the changes in interdependency and intimacy within the relationship. This study also found that male primary …
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A portfolio of work on mother-child dyad and autism : a counselling psychology perspective
… from the analysis of data. The first theme is ambiguous loss, and is concerned with mothers’ way of dealing with the loss of their dreamed-for child. The second theme is identity shift, and is concerned with the change in the way mothers experienced and identified themselves after their child …
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Seizing the Circumstances: Adult Reflections on Parental Deportation
… deported (Passel and Cohn, 2011). The sudden loss caused by parental deportation destabilizes families and causes emotional distress, conduct issues, and academic decline in children (Dreby, 2012). Given the negative impact that deportation has on children and the recent increase of …
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I Lost My Family: Grief, Loss, and Identity Formation of Adopted and Fostered American Indian Individuals
… American Indian individuals experience numerous losses that can lead to poor mental and physical health outcomes. Studies addressing American Indian experiences of grief, loss, and identity development are scarce and are limited to small samples utilizing qualitative methods. Grounded in identity …
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Indian Wives of Incarcerated Men Tell Their Stories: An Intersectional Narrative Analysis of Disenfranchisement and Resilience
… agency, to recognize women's experiences of ambiguous loss and disenfranchised grief, and to critique the systemic injustices that forced women to be resilient. Documenting their stories is instrumental in bringing attention to the needs, challenges, and triumphs of this underserved and …
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Family hardiness, family coping, and marital satisfaction as reported by caregivers of children who have been diagnosed with significant disabilities: A mixed methods online research study
… Ladd, 2010) which considered chronic sorrow, and ambiguous loss in families of children with significant disabilities. This present study has continued the qualitative exploration of raising a child diagnosed with significant disabilities and has gathered caregiver (92.6% parental) data from three …
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