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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Bereavement -- Psychological aspects."”.
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Coping with an Uncertain Loss: Aspects of Bereavement in Two Families with an Abducted Child
… to explore and assess clinical dynamics of bereavement and coping strategies. The results were categorized against the backdrop of attachment theories developed by John Bowlby. Findings. The Bowlby model provided an adequate, if not complete, means of assessment of bereavement processes in …
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The Relationship Between Adjustment And Bereavement-Related Distress: A Longitudinal Study
… as indicators of personal adjustment and bereavement distress across three times of testing (initial, 6-month, and 3-year follow-up). Cross-lagged panel analyses were conducted to examine the causal relationships between adjustment and bereavement distress indicators and overall factors. …
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Longitudinal Evaluation of Nonreligious Coping, Religious Coping, Health, and Distress
<p>The problem-focused/emotion-focused coping distinction has been widely accepted since Lazarus and Folkman first defined this model in the 1980's. However, some researchers have criticized this distinction; for example, while problem-focused coping involved engaging strategies, emotion-focused …
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Expressive Arts Therapy with Bereaved Families
Most current grief programs support the children and/or parents of bereaved families rather than the family as a whole. This exploratory study was a quantitative and qualitative investigation of the use of expressive arts therapy with bereaved families during a weekend camp experience and a series …
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Husband's and Daughter's Role Strain During Breast Cancer Hospice Patient Caregiving and Bereavement Adjustment
Current literature regarding caregiver bereavement adjustment has advanced two competing models explaining adjustment in relation to caregiver interrole conflict: the Relief Model and Complicated Grief Model. This research has primarily focused on the experience of those providing care to dementia …
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Effects of Parental or Caregiver Death Prior to Age Eighteen on Depressive Symptoms and Grief Following Miscarriage
Parental or caregiver death, especially in childhood, can have long lasting emotional ramifications in an individual's life. When this early loss is followed by significant life events such as pregnancy, and losses such as miscarriage, the bereaved woman experiences considerable emotional impact. …
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Parental Grief and Loss and the medical Staff Relationship: a Function of Attachment
Each year, too many parents must face the horrific ordeal of having to prepare for the death of their child; thought to be the most traumatic event in the life of an adult (Widger & Picot, 2008). It is in the desperate hours just prior to death that these parents, for many reasons, reach out for …