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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Grief reactions"”.
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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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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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The Survivors: A Comparison of Bereavement Experiences Following the Suicide, Accidental, or Natural Death of a Spouse
… The primary focus of investigation was upon grief reactions suggested to be unique to suicide bereavement and upon quality of grief resolution two to four years after death. Fifty-seven women and men, between ages 24 and 48, who had experienced the death of a marital partner were interviewed. …
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Impact of student death on teachers of the severely disabled
… this research was to investigate the effects of grief on teachers of the severely disabled. Specifically, four areas of inquiry were pursued: the pattern of grief reactions of teachers following the death of a student, the need for bereavement support services, the need for pre-service and/or …
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Effects Of The Death Of A Group Member On The Group And Therapist
… that group therapists often experience similar reactions to the loss of an individual client with the addition of needing to manage the reactions of the other group members to the death of a group member (O’Neill & Kueppenbender, 2012). This research explored quantitatively the grief reactions …
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How autistic adults experience bereavement: an interpretative phenomenological study
… the sociocultural context of autistic grief’, ‘Adapting to change and loss: meaning and connection’, and ‘Stories and scripts: making sense of it all’. Consistent with existing grief literature, participants’ grief reactions included affective, physiological, cognitive, and behavioural …
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A formative study to develop and test a health promotion strategy for adolescents who experience grief
… designed to minimise unhealthy adolescent grief reactions. A sample of Western Australian adolescents were consulted to identify their perceptions regarding the causes of grief for adolescents, the means by which they manage grief, their perceptions of what constitutes healthy and unhealthy …
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Coping with an Uncertain Loss: Aspects of Bereavement in Two Families with an Abducted Child
… subjects were observed to be unfinished in the grief process. The uncertainty of the loss seemed to be the prime factor that prolonged grief in both subjects. Conclusion. The Bowlby model was acceptable in defining general grief reactions of the subjects. Each family remained in the grief …
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Eco-Art therapy's Effect on Existential Well-Being and Connectedness to Nature with Families Experiencing Bereavement
… The goal of this study is to identify individual grief reactions, level of existential well-being and connectedness to nature as it relates to the grief process before and after nature-based art directives in a family group setting. The program will be evaluated for decrease in grief reaction …
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Ambiguous Loss For Caregivers of Family Members With Dementia
This study examined the grief of spousal caregivers, specifically 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 …
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The Impact of Downsizing on Survivors' Career Development: A Test of Super's Theory
… satisfaction, and social support may buffer the grief reactions that survivors have to the loss of their co-worker friends. Furthermore, Super's age-associated stages within the Life-Span, Life-Space Theory were moderately upheld in the sample, especially for the Exploration stage. However, …
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The experience of drug loss among college students in treatment for cannabis abuse
Grief-related symptoms among people in recovery from drug abuse have been acknowledged in the substance abuse literature. However, there is no existing theory to explain the phenomenon of grief reactions to discontinued drug use. In an attempt to contribute to the developing Drug Loss Theory …
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The emotional impact of nursing : identifying issues and supporting staff
… education to cover a range of issues including grief reactions, disenfranchised grief, emotional intelligence and professional socialisation. The book was developed as a result to provide an accessible handbook for health and social care staff working with those at the end of life and their …
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How mothers experience personal growth after a perinatal loss
… parental psychopathology, research on adaptive grief resolution and posttraumatic growth is scarce. Qualitative methodologies exploring perinatal bereavement and posttraumatic growth from a perspective of counselling psychology are absent in the literature although repeatedly invited by …
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The impact of the death of a child on the parent's marriage: a case study of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and the parent's marital relationship
… satisfaction; 2) The similar or different grief reactions of the spouses; 3) The need for emotional support from each other or others; 4) Actual support received from others for the couple and individuals; 5) The effect of previous losses on the couple's current grief experience; and, 6) …
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Living bereavement : an exploration of health care workers' responses to loss and grief in an NHS continuing care ward for older people
… bereavement" meaning the complex responses and grief reactions of those experiencing and bearing witness to the multiple losses endured in continuing care environments. The literature review suggested that the body of knowledge related to loss in continuing care is fragmented and the research …
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Stillbirth : a psychosocial crisis
… them if not properly handled. Additionally, a grief response follows a stillbirth which must be recognised, accepted, and treated therapeutically if needed. Parents' problems and needs have not been adequately met by medical, social or community services. There is also little recognition of the …
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Caring for a relative with dementia: anticipatory grief and social death
… and future losses. The emotional and behavioural reactions which previous studies have labelled `anticipatory grief' were experienced - to varying degrees - by the caregiving relatives of dementia sufferers. While partly simply a response to the burdens of the caregiving situation, they could also …