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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"post-loss"”.
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Counselling within a hospice setting. A mixed-methods exploration of pre-loss and post-loss counselling in a palliative setting
… and bereavement by investigating whether pre-loss counselling could improve outcomes for individuals who have recently lost a close family member. The research examined how pre-loss counselling could help individuals cope with a loss and why this approach may reduce the client's time in …
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The therapist in crisis: experiencing the therapeutic process after personal loss
… be a psychological therapist following personal loss. Data gathered from nine semi-structured interviews with therapists who had experienced personal loss were analysed using a relational-centred approach to a heuristic inquiry research method. This incorporated an explicit use of my …
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Friday is a Planet: Stories
… of short fiction that explores the ways loss can alter family bonds. Characters in these stories have lost daughters, sisters, mothers, and friends. Some characters go to extreme lengths to return to their loved ones—one woman hallucinates, another time travels. Others deal with the loss …
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Pregnancy Loss: Disenfranchised Grief and Other Psychological Reactions
… that women who have experienced pregnancy loss have complex psychological reactions to their loss. The present study examined the patterns of grief of women who have had a pregnancy end in spontaneous abortion or stillbirth and the ways in which these women gave meaning to their …
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Design of an experimental loop for post-LOCA heat transfer regimes in a Gas-cooled Fast Reactor
… to generate the convection flow regimes found in post Loss of Coolant Accident (LOCA) operation of a Gas-cooled Fast Reactor (GFR). As a result a scaling analysis of the proposed test facility was undertaken to demonstrate that the proposed loop would be able to operate in these aforementioned …
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Market imperfections and market-based policy instruments
… the contractor is in effect protected from ex-post loss. Many construction procurers who use first price auctions eliminate abnormally low bids in order to reduce the probability of ex-post bid adjustment. The Korean government systematizes such a bid screening process by setting a stochastic …
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Inverse uncertainty quantification of input model parameters for thermal-hydraulics simulations using expectation-maximization under non-Bayesian and Bayesian framework
… Maximum Likelihood Estimate (MLE) and Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) estimate. The difference between experimental measurements and nominal code predictions, which are the observables, are considered scalar random variables. A dispersed normal prior is assumed on the mean and an inverse gamma prior …
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Informal Caregivers of Advanced Cancer Patients: The Impact of Geographic Proximity on Social Support and Bereavement Adjustment
… questionnaire) as well as after the death (by post-death questionnaire). This design allowed for an examination of differences between three groups of caregivers over time: long distance caregivers (who live an hour or more from the care recipient), proximate caregivers (who live less than an …
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Patterns and Outcomes of Bereavement Support-Seeking Among Older Adults with Complicated Grief and Bereavement-Related Depression
… support sought for grief at 6, 18, and 48 months post-widowhood, including religious leader, support group, and family doctor support, and examines the influence of social network variables, the presence of CG and depression, and other demographic (gender, education, age, race, income, and home …
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The Shadow of Grief: Understanding Grief Among Ethnoracially Diverse Young Adults
… 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 factors that significantly impact complicated grief, such as post-loss symptom severity, stigmatization, the …