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Showing 1 to 20 of 661 for “"Grief"”.
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The Shadow of Grief: Understanding Grief Among Ethnoracially Diverse Young Adults
<p><strong>Background:</strong> Complicated grief, characterized by prolonged and intense mourning, presents unique challenges for individuals grappling with loss, as it is shaped by a multitude of factors influencing the grieving and mourning processes. While the literature has identified several …
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Maternal grief reactions to their children's birth defects: factors influencing grief resolution
… factors related to resolution of maternal grief reactions to the event of learning about their child's birth defects. Subjects were 63 mothers and their toddler-age children, recruited from medical clinics in the Metropolitan area of Detroit, MI. Mothers' ages ranged from 18 to 42 years …
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Widows' Breath: Grief Fractures
… on a true story” applies to this collection of grief fractures. Each is based on a thread of someone’s true story of death and loss. A combination of autobiographic fiction and speculative non-fiction, these fractures create a thematic braiding of grief as they explore the human survival of …
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Grief and Healing Sanctuary
… have with architecture. The inspirations for the Grief and Healing Sanctuary were the healing experienced at quiet spaces of reflection and my father's stories as a Navy Vietnam shipboard combat veteran. I designed a building to provide a place for healing and to deal with grief. The building was …
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Grief counselling : community intervention practices
… but the community at large. In other words, grief is a shared experience. The disposal of the dead and the accompanying mourning rituals are a social, if not a public affair. Though it is never solicited, support subsequent to bereavement is expected from friends, relatives, and the community …
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The House that Grief Built
… themes of family, religion, food, gardening, and grief as experienced by the author and her relatives. Through the eyes of a first-generation American (on her mother’s side) and the daughter of a Greek Orthodox priest, the author utilizes imagery of nature and domesticity as she pursues …
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Exploring the Metaphysics of Grief
… dissertation is to develop an understanding of grief utterances: expressions of grief that in losing a loved one, the bereaved lost a part of herself. Grief utterances are commonplace, and their accompanying phenomenology suggests they are true. That gives us reason to think they are true. But …
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Exploring The Metaphysics Of Grief
… dissertation is to develop an understanding of grief utterances: expressions of grief that in losing a loved one, the bereaved lost a part of herself. Grief utterances are commonplace, and their accompanying phenomenology suggests they are true. That gives us reason to think they are true. But …
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Grief reactions experienced by widows compared to perceptions of widows' grief reactions by selected professions
… so as to reflect their perceptions of widows' grief reactions. Of the 5 null hypotheses which dealt with widows and professionals, 4 were rejected (p<.OS) and 1 was partially rejected.The 6th hypothesis, which compared mean scores of professionals who had and had not dealt with the problems of …
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Migrating Latinas and the Grief Process
… It compares their experience to that of grief due to bereavement using Parkes' theory of the grief process. This research also presents findings as to the effects of migration on the marital system. Analysis of interview data provided by 12 Latin American women who resided in the United …
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The Effect of Social Networking on Grief
… research on the effects of social media on grief. This project's goal was to gather information about grieving via online social networking sites. Data was collected from 20 <em>in memoriam</em> profile webpages on Facebook and MySpace. The deceased were between the ages of six months and 32 …
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Emotional functioning and meaning making in grief
… has been traditionally considered crucial in grief coping (Pennebaker, 1990; Raphael, 1983). At the same time, bereaved people who were able to find a meaning in their loss experience were found to show better adjustment and were less likely to develop grief complications than those who did …
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Using Positive Psychology to Grow Through Grief
Grief does not discriminate; most individuals in this world, regardless of background or life circumstance, will eventually experience the loss of someone close to them. Children’s Bereavement Center, based in Miami, Florida, offers no-cost peer-support groups to grieving children, adolescents, and …
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Good Grief and Other Tales for Television
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Complicated Grief Treatment: What Makes It Work?
… of the putative mediators of complicated grief treatment (CGT) in an effort to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms by which the treatment exerts its effects. This three-paper dissertation utilizes data from an NIMH-funded randomized controlled trial of CGT (Shear et al., 2005), …
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