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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Loss and grief"”.
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A Study of Loss and Grief as Produced by Mandated Educational Change
… the proposition that subjective feelings of loss and a subsequent behavioral complex of grief are produced in response to mandated educational change. Two primary questions related to the change-loss-grief construct were posed: (1) Do organizational members report professional loss in …
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The Social Construction of Loss and Grief: Experiences of Coastal Louisiana Residents
… goal of this study is to gain a better understanding of disaster-stricken communities using the experiences of the community of Boothville-Venice, Louisiana, and examining their narratives for an understanding of loss. This thesis uses symbolic interactionism, and draws from existing literature …
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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
… with how care staff work with residents and their relatives in an NHS continuing care ward. It focuses on the care staff's perceptions and responses to the losses experience by the residents and their families in their care.T he research is rooted in a work based education project and the …
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Gone song
… two primary sections. With its major themes of loss and grief, the book explores different means of survival, looking both toward the outside world—landscape, other people, other writers—and toward the self/body and interior consciousness and the experience of reading and writing.
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Exploration of spousal carers' lived experience of loss
… century, much of the literature that discussed loss and grief was developed within an empirical-analytical paradigm. Stage models and theories of grief were proposed to explain and describe a universal process of grieving. Nurses, to a large extent, accept and perpetuate these notions of loss …
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Factors that influence how relationships adjust to a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome: A grounded theory
… the impact of ME/CFS on the individual and a smaller body of work addresses the effect on the partner and the influence the partner has in the management of the condition. This research, therefore, sought to illuminate couples’ experiences of ME/CFS, in order to gain a greater …
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Working with bereaved people: a psychotherapy training action research study: working towards an epistemology of grief as the therapeutic approach with a bereaved population.
… the phenomenological experience of bereavement, loss and grief has created a gap in the knowledge of professionals working with bereaved people. Adherence to and rigid use of traditional models neither meets the emotional nor psychological needs of those bereaved, whilst the experience of …
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A Queer Departure: The Role of Queer Studies and Thanatology in Narrative Videogames Focused on Grief
… within the academic fields of Queer Studies and Death Studies, and their fused counterpart known as Queer Death Studies (QDS). Through the methodology of Fairclough’s (1995) Critical Discourse Analysis, this thesis analyses four narrative-heavy videogames titled Gone Home (2013), Journey …
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The creative space : art and wellbeing in the shadow of trauma, grief and loss
… the relationship between creative arts practice and trauma, loss and grief, including the shadowy world of sexual abuse. It is an examination of what art and the artist can contribute to wellbeing in the aftermath of such experiences through collaborative processes. It has involved creating art …
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Supporting trauma-impacted students through the use of animal assisted education
… forms of trauma. Experiences of violence, loss, and grief particularly among elementary age children can significantly impact their ability to emotionally regulate themselves, grow developmentally, and achieve in school. Furthermore, these children are at high risk for unsuccessful outcomes …
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Nurses' experiences and decision making at triage when women with miscarriage present to the Emergency Department
… sometimes simultaneously, requiring assessment and treatment. The role of the triage nurse in New Zealand is to made quick decisions using a triage scale, currently the Australasian Triage Scale (ATS), to determine urgency at which the patient should be assessed by a doctor and commence …
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Kinship Support Group: Addressing Grandparent Caregiver Challenges
<p>Grandparent caregivers to their grandchild(ren) is a growing population that is not completely understood. This study explored the challenges faced by grandparent caregivers to their grandchild(ren) and how being part of a kinship support group can help in addressing the challenges. A …
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Elizabeth Bishop's Photographic Poetics: The Peripheral Vision
… questions of observation, positioning, framing, and refer to Bishop‘s aesthetics as ―optical poetics.‖ Instead of simply using optical vocabulary to talk about her work, I found that comparing her practice and the aesthetics of photography would help to illuminate our understanding of the …
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Elizabeth Bishop's Photographic Poetics: The Peripheral Vision
… questions of observation, positioning, framing, and refer to Bishop‘s aesthetics as ―optical poetics.‖ Instead of simply using optical vocabulary to talk about her work, I found that comparing her practice and the aesthetics of photography would help to illuminate our understanding of the …
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Exploring infertility through art
… of art to explore the psychogenic, psychological and physiological aspects of infertility and the psychosomatic avenues of expression possibly resulting in, or contributing to, infertility. The term psychogenic means "pertaining to disorders which are functional in origin" (Chaplin, 1973, p. · …
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Parental alienation and targeted parents: loss, coping, and social support
… of parental alienation becomes more prevalent and recognized by professionals who work with families, focusing on the impact of parental alienation on the alienated parent is becoming progressively more important. Alienated parents often suffer some sort of loss of their child (e.g., emotional …
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They did not know how to journey with me: Exploring Rugby Union injury experiences among wāhine in Aotearoa, New Zealand
… career. Yet, the personal responses to injury and rehabilitation experiences of Wāhine rugby union players have received minimal attention. Rehabilitation is not a “one size fits all” process. This research aimed to provide an understanding of the experiences of injured female rugby union …
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Persileidimą išgyvenusių moterų dramos terapijos patyrimas /
… post-traumatic stress, are at risk of divorce, and lack psychological support. Drama therapy experiences of women who had a miscarriage have not been studied in Lithuania yet. Purpose: To describe drama therapy experiences of women who had a miscarriage. Objectives: 1. To review the …
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Saw Briers
… The thesis consists of a critical introduction and a collection of short stories comprising 120 pages and titled Saw Briers. The critical introduction centers on strategies beyond dialect that can be used to create authentic Appalachian characters in their true setting. </p> <p>In these stories …
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Self-Care for Nurses: Protecting our Energy Field
… of nursing as a profession, nurses need to learn and perform self-care practices. A report on nurses’ perceptions of themselves as healers showed that nurses do not practice self-care or encounter therapeutic interactions enough to sustain themselves in their stressful work environments …
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