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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"complicated grief"”.
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Complicated Grief Treatment: What Makes It Work?
… is an exploration 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 …
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The Expression and Regulation of Sadness in Complicated Grief
… focused on investigating how participants with complicated grief (CG) emotionally responded in comparison to a non-pathological bereaved group. We comprehensively measured the emotional responding behaviors (i.e., facial displays of emotion and head movements) of participants as they watched an …
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Continuing Bonds, Meaning Making, and Collectivism: Predictors of Complicated Grief
… to investigate the effect of continuing bonds on complicated grief symptoms and how this effect is influenced by the meaning making the bereaved individual engages in, and their level of relational collectivism. One hundred and fifty seven participants who had lost a human loved one were recruited …
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Meanings made, attachment, perceived closeness and complicated grief in military service members
… of individuals who experience a death loss, grief symptoms become chronic, and more severe. Chronic, severe grief symptoms are otherwise known as complicated grief. Military service members experience a myriad of factors that likely increase their risk of developing complicated grief, yet few …
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The Role of Relatedness and Expressive Flexibility In the Prediction of Complicated Grief
… attachment, interpersonal dependency, and complicated grief among a sample of middle-aged bereaved adults. A relatedness framework, which encompasses specific and more generalized relational interpersonal behaviors, was utilized to broaden the frame of inquiry. This study represents one of …
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Patterns and Outcomes of Bereavement Support-Seeking Among Older Adults with Complicated Grief and Bereavement-Related Depression
… support-seeking among older adults with Complicated Grief (CG) and/or depression and to examine the outcomes of support received. This three-paper dissertation uses data from two studies of bereaved older adults: the Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC) Study and the Complicated Grief …
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Examination of Complicated Grief, Posttraumatic Stress, and Other Psychological Reactions among Student Survivors of the April 16th Shootings at Virginia Tech
The diagnosis of Complicated Grief (CG) is being proposed for inclusion in DSM–5. As such, it has been the focus of several studies purporting to build evidence of its validity and its conceptual and statistical distinction from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression (Bonanno et al., …
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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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Grieving Between the Lines: Expanding Family Communication Patterns Theory Through Parental Bereavement
… to measure the uniqueness of parental death grief compared to other types of relational loss. The hypotheses and research questions of this study explore the impact of family styles, culture and ethnicity, low conversation and conformity orientation, and the length of grief on parentally …
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Husband's and Daughter's Role Strain During Breast Cancer Hospice Patient Caregiving and Bereavement Adjustment
… interrole conflict: the Relief Model and Complicated Grief Model. This research has primarily focused on the experience of those providing care to dementia patients. This study tests these competing models of bereavement adjustment for husband and daughter caregivers of breast cancer …
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Personal bereavement and Registered General Nurses
… processes of normal grieving can be impaired or complicated by virtue of an individual being a nurse or midwife'. A mixed methodology was utilised to allow data to be collected at both exploratory and descriptive levels, and to provide reinforcement via the triangulation of data relating to key …
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Virginiana
… Virginia landscapes within the context of grief, history, and trauma. These poems exist at the intersection of physical pain and emotional pain. Among other topics, the poems examine the experience of living with three chronic health conditions. The speaker sees her physical pain and …
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The Premature Loss of the Black Male and Its Implications on the Black Family System and Community: A Proposed 12-Step Grief Support Group Model
… and Black identity issues, which traditional grief recovery programs struggle to help adequately. Even though approaches such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, complicated grief treatment, present-centered therapy, trauma-focused therapy, including eye movement desensitization and reprocessing …
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Flexible models and methods for longitudinal and multilevel functional data
… This work is motivated by a clinical study of Complicated Grief (Shear et al. 2005). In the Complicated Grief Study, patients receive active treatment during a treatment period and then enter a follow-up period during which they no longer receive active treatment. It is conceivable that the …
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Termination For Fetal Anomaly: What Is The Impact of Genetic Counseling On Coping?
… that can cause women to develop long-term, complicated grief. Although a woman’s experience with her healthcare providers has been previously identified as an important factor in coping, studies have shown that many women report their healthcare as lacking to some extent. Given the overlap …
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The Effect of Intranasal Oxytocin on Neural Functioning in Widow(er)s
… process is central to conceptual models of complicated grief (CG), a persistent and unremitting form of acute grief. Oscillation between these motivation systems is thought to maintain maladaptive cognitive and behavioral patterns, prolonging the acute grief experience. Neuroimaging studies …
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the grief and bereavement of the Eersterust community
… have led to emotional distress and affected grief. Feelings of distress and guilt can increase when one is unable to care for dying loved ones or get support during changed death rituals. Those that suffer from abnormal grief should be identified and managed promptly. Aim: To explore how …
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Between legality and empathy : an examination of the coroner’s inquest and its impact on the emotions of those bereaved by road death
… member in a road collision, the traumatic and complicated grief they experience sees them as ‘co–victims’ of such a death. This difficulty is compounded when they find that the collision event is deemed to be non–culpable, forcing them to encounter part of the Justice System in England and …
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Intrapersonal Grief as a Clinical Entity Distinct from Depression: Does It Exist Among a Medically Ill Parkinson's Disease Population?
There has been growing support for the idea that complicated grief symptoms following bereavement are independent of symptoms of depression and anxiety. However, the loss of a loved one is not the only or the most frequent type of loss to be encountered. The onset of an insidious medical illness …
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