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Showing 1 to 20 of 174 for “"Loved ones"”.
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Loved ones within Palliative Care-understanding, strategies and need for support
… during the palliative process both patient and loved ones have to face, and prepare themselves, for the patient´s approaching death. Their daily life will be marked by the disease, and physical, social, psychological and existential questions will arise. Increased knowledge about being a loved …
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Helpful and unhelpful elements of support for families with missing loved ones
… 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 accessed support during this …
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Exploring the Support Networks of those Caring for Loved Ones on Texas Death Row
… endure many hardships related to caring for a loved one on Texas’ death row. This study aims to understand the support networks developed by caretakers of capital offenders, along with their current needs and barriers. While the research consistently shows the tremendous devastation the death …
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Individual Art Therapy with Hospice Clients and Their Loved Ones in a Hospital Hospice Program
<p>Without sufficient support and treatment, losses may result in chronic grief, complicated bereavement, .suicidal ideation and traumatic stress. To address these needs, the Zen Hospice Project has chosen to provide individual art therapy services on both a long term basis and as crisis …
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Multifaceted Traumatization: Direct and Vicarious Exposure of EMS Personnel Who Responded To a Suicide Where Loved Ones of the Deceased Were Present
… experience at challenging calls when family and loved ones are present at the scene. Additionally, there is minimal research that has looked at the experiences among paramedics and EMTs who arrive to mental disturbance calls or completed suicides. In order to add to the substantial body of …
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Thresholds: End of Life and Architecture
… and traditions to support the dying and their loved ones, but for modern society, few of these rituals remain. Death has become a topic to avoid "no one wants to look at it or speak about it. This taboo treatment of death often results in the isolation of people at the end of their lives. It …
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Healing Together: Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence and Their Families
… in secondary traumatization for a survivor’s loved ones. Existing interventions for supporting survivors of sexual assault largely treat trauma at the individual level, neglecting the importance of relationships to the healing process and ignoring the reality of secondary traumatization. As …
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Nothing Free
… focus is on three sisters and how they and their loved ones reconcile their deep connections to the past as they embrace their futures.</p>
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Patterns of Domestic Video Mediated Communication
… technologies to stay connected with loved ones. However, most technologies do not provide the same feelings of connectedness that one feels from seeing loved ones. This dissertation explored the design and use of video-based technologies to allow families to communicate and remain …
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Enlutados da pandemia: os testemunhos daqueles que perderam entes queridos sob o viés fenomenológico heideggeriano
… country. The contingent of mourners for their loved ones is as high as the number of dead people. These survivors had a total prohibition or a huge impact on the funeral rites as the contagious rate was elevated in the worst moments of the pandemic. This study aims to comprehend the mourning …
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Deeper Than Roots
… of rooms within a house, the act of burying loved ones, and discovering what it is to move away. These essays aim to mix retellings of everyday events and relationships with deep personal turmoil and the growth that result from it.</p>
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Shifting the Burden: The Impact of Home-Based Palliative Care on Family Caregivers Living in Rural Areas
… Ontario managed caring for their terminally-ill loved-ones in the home and how this affected their self-assessed health. A multiple case study design was used to explore the experiences. Data consisted primarily of semi-structured interviews, direct observations and documents. Conventional …
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Nurse Beliefs And Other Influencing Variables On Nurses' Intentions And Decisions Regarding
… regarding patient and family interest to be with loved ones or the lack of detrimental effects from being together, some nurses are not convinced of the merits of family presence (FP). Implementation of family presence in adult ICUs remains controversial for nurses. The feelings of many nurses, …
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Effects of an Educational and Support Program for Family and Friends of a Substance Abuser
… family members are adversely affected by their loved ones drinking or drug problem. The aim of the present study was to explore changes in coping and enabling behaviors among family members who attended a community educational and psychosocial group for friends and family of a substance abuser, …
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Send my love to Tijuana -- Tijuana sends her love : the transcendental Tijuanense telecommunications bridge to everywhere
… to those who wish to reconnect with their loved ones by way of another, virtual means: free videoconferencing within dedicated spaces. These spaces range in scale, beginning with the precedent of the phone booth for private, intimate conversations and ending with large-scale public …
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Family Members of the Mentally Ill and Their Experiences with Mental Health Professionals
… told to me by family members of mentally ill loved ones who were receiving mental health services in order to raise awareness of the challenges these caretakers face on a daily basis as they tried to support their loved ones in the community and the isolation they experienced because of …
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Body of Work
… of the clinician in relationship to patients, loved ones, and the systems that sometimes fail us. The tensions and imbalance apparent in the poems generate a speaker who is increasingly less certain and less automatic. As a collection of poetry, Body of Work is committed to openness and an …
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Got Plans? A Regional Partnership for Advance Care Planning in North Carolina
… important people in my life. The loss of my loved ones made me reflect about death and dying multiple times. More specifically, I reflected on how our society and local communities approach conversations about the end of life. I became increasingly concerned about the discomfort associated …
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Faire Semblants and Scandalous Worship: Iconophobia and the English Renaissance
… God's existence and the immortality of cherished loved ones made the metaphor of iconoclasm a powerful engine for transforming human affection into acts of organized violence. This fundamentalist rhetoric, and the language of toleration that developed in response to it, are the subjects of this …
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Putting Myself Back Together
… in nature as it deals with my life and loved ones who have passed away. I have found the poems alone are not enough to fully represent or honor the memory or person they are about, leading me to create them three-dimensionally. I create from a large body of materials which is incred- …
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