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Showing 1 to 20 of 120 for “"grieving"”.
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Don't Call It Grieving
“Don’t Call It Grieving” is in constant conversation with the modes of formality and performance of losing. Each formal decision and subsequent departure tells its own story of loss and obsesses over the question: Is all loss equal, and what do we owe to those we choose to leave behind? The …
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Grieving (and) Weaving (and) Spreading (and) Becoming
… of the self. In this thesis paper, Grieving (and) Weaving (and) Spreading (and) Becoming, I will explore my practice of subverting and incorporating found images, video, Slavic motifs, text and text(iles) in a disembodied search for identity, reconnection and softness. My …
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Grieving unnatural death : a pastoral care challenge
Dissertation (MA (Practical Theology))--University of Pretoria, 2023.
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In Post Memoriam: An Exploration of Family and Grieving
<p>This collection of essays, poems, and fiction details the author’s exploration of familial trauma and grief. The author wrestles with the concept of “postmemory” as theorized by Marianne Hirsch and questions what it means to have the experiences of someone else passed down through generations. …
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About face: renegotiating the self and the family through grieving
… investigation of the relationship between the grieving process and the art making process. This has been a highly personal journey of reclamation and reconciliation with the aim of understanding and healing painful and unresolved areas in my life related to the deaths of my parents at when I …
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The Grieving Process of Opioid Overdose Bereaved Parents in Maryland
… Themes that emerged were as follows: the grieving process, support vs. stigma, experiences with state and local services, parental guilt, shame, and unanswered questions, coping mechanisms, and post-mortem life changes. While overall adaptation levels varied among participants, all …
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The Search for Meaning: What Do the Narratives of Grieving Individuals Reveal?
… the losses and how those meanings impacted the grieving process were explored by listening to in-depth narratives of the participants’ experiences of loss and grief. A narrative methodology was used, based on a constructivist epistemology that describes a human tendency to put events in …
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Grieving Between the Lines: Expanding Family Communication Patterns Theory Through Parental Bereavement
The literature connecting the Family Communication Patterns Theory (FCPT) to parental death is scarce. This thesis argues that FCPT is a viable theory to measure the uniqueness of parental death grief compared to other types of relational loss. The hypotheses and research questions of this study …
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Grieving the violent death of a child: synthesizing the private and public response
Accidents, suicides, and homicides are the leading causes of death in the young. These are all modes of violent deaths. Although the response to loss has been a prevalent area of inquiry, limited research exists how or whether the context of violent death affects the response of parents to the loss …
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How consulting a medium after bereavement influences the grieving process – an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… (ADCs) (that is, through a medium), on the grieving process of the bereaved. It also sought to explore the existential dimensions experienced by the bereaved. Six bereaved participants in the UK who had experienced assisted ADCs took part in semi- structured interviews. The data was analysed …
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Lessons Learned From the Narratives of Two Employees Returning to Work While Actively Grieving
… practices influenced the experience of grieving for two individuals. As the literature review will show, most grieving adults return to the workplace while still actively grieving. Returning to work while grieving is not only difficult for the griever, as shown through my interviews, but …
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The Grief of a Child: Counseling the Dynamic Heart of an Elementary-Aged Child Grieving Death
… can best counsel an elementary-aged child grieving death that considers the nature of a child’s developing heart. Chapter two argues that effective communication to grieving children begins with a clear theology of death and grief and that caregivers have no foundation of care to build on …
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In-Between What Once Was and What is Yet to Come: On the Phenomena of Bereavement and Grieving
When a significant other dies, our lives can be shattered and our worlds upended. We may find that we no longer know how to make sense of our experiences or how to engage in our practical activities. Nothing can be as it was before because the world as we once knew it has ended, and we are no …
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A Causal-Comparative Study of the Influence of Loss Issues on the Anxiety Levels of Adolescent Psychiatric In-Patients
… the issue as to whether or not the presence of grieving would significantly affect either the State Anxiety or the Trait Anxiety of adolescent psychiatric in-patients. A sample of 71 adolescent in-patients were administered a clinical interview to determine the presence or absence of grieving …
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light: a rhetorical analysis of the role of existentialism, grieving, and space in science fiction films
… human experience. Specifically, the process of grieving, as a precursor to moving forward after a profound loss, binds these films together. By using genre analysis, the results illuminated how these films might be responding to a profound social need. They can also be used to teach …
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A formative study to develop and test a health promotion strategy for adolescents who experience grief
… of what constitutes healthy and unhealthy grieving, and the risks associated with unhealthy grieving and the type of grief-management intervention they preferred.
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COVID-19: Social Support Among the Bereaved
… may impact the perception of support by those grieving. The purpose the study was to gain a better understanding of bereaved individual’s experiences of grief when traditional mourning rituals are interrupted during a life-threatening pandemic. This study aimed to examine how COVID-19 impacted …
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Responding to loss: A case study on the school-wide response to the death of students in a high-needs urban high school
… staff place in a school wide plan to support grieving and bereaved students? (2) What universal and targeted actions are effective in supporting grieving and bereaved students? (3) How prepared are school staff to adequately support grieving and bereaved students? This qualitatitive case study …
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Older Women’s Stories of COVID-19 Loss: Communicated Narrative Sense-Making Through Photography
… older Americans died, leaving a nation of grieving survivors in their absence. This profound loss of life will undoubtedly inform the field’s understanding of grief and grieving for many years to come. Pre-pandemic, older women in the United States understood grief to be part of their life …
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