Grief In Adult Life Research Articles

Love and Grief (Loving better through Grief)

AbstractWhen, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York more than two decades ago, the late Queen Elizabeth II expressed her sentiments with the words: ‘Grief is the price we pay for love’, she was making a reference to British psychiatrist Dr Colin Murray Parkes's book Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life. In the book, Dr Parkes states an obvious, albeit often ignored, fact that the pain of grief is just as much part of life as the joy of love. Following the death of the Queen in September 2022, Joe Biden, the current president of the US, used the same quote as an opportunity to express his own personal sadness about her passing. It was also an opportunity to participate in public grief about the loss of a popular leader, and of innocent lives. It is not uncommon for leaders, religious ones including, to speak of love, especially during such poignant moments. But it is somewhat less common for public figures to bring to our attention the close connection between grief and love. Even when they do, grief is commonly seen in a negative light. Philosophers provide another example of what is, I shall argue, a mischaracterization of grief.

Impact of COVID-19 on loss and grief: a personal lens.

British Journal of Community NursingVol. 25, No. 6 CommentImpact of COVID-19 on loss and grief: a personal lensBrian NyatangaBrian NyatangaE-mail Address: [email protected]Senior Lecturer, Three Counties School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of WorcesterSearch for more papers by this authorBrian NyatangaPublished Online:4 Jun 2020https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2020.25.6.306AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View article References British Broadcasting Corporation. Coronavirus: Islamophobia concerns after India mosque outbreak. 3 April 2020. 2020a. https://tinyurl.com/yaaj7lsu (accessed 28 April 2020) Google ScholarBritish Broadcasting Corporation. Coronavirus: Boris Johnson says ‘it could have gone either way’. 12 April 2020. 2020b. https://tinyurl.com/vl4so3f (accessed 28 April 2020) Google ScholarFreud S. Mourning and melancholia. The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud, volume XIV (1914–1916): on the history of the psycho-analytic movement, papers on metapsychology and other works. London: The Hogarth Press; 1917:237–258 Google ScholarKessler D. Finding meaning: a sixth stage of grief. New York (NY): Scribner; 2019 Google ScholarMurray-Parkes C. Bereavement studies of grief in adult life. 4th edn. London: Penguin Books; 2010 Google ScholarWorden JW. Grief Counseling and grief therapy: a handbook for the mental health practitioner. 5th revised edn. New York (NY): Springer Publishing Co; 2018 Crossref, Google Scholar FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 2 June 2020Volume 25Issue 6ISSN (print): 1462-4753ISSN (online): 2052-2215 Metrics History Published online 4 June 2020 Published in print 2 June 2020 Information© MA Healthcare LimitedPDF download

Book Reviews: A Parent's Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family after the Death of a Loved One, Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life, Deathscapes: Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance

Book Reviews: A Parent's Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family after the Death of a Loved One, Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life, Deathscapes: Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance

BOOK REVIEWS

Abstract An important contribution to the discussion of pathologic grief A review of Pathologic Grief: Maladaptation to Loss by Selby Jacobs. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, 1993. 400 pp. ISBN 0-88408-531-0. $49.95. Reviewed by Colin Murray Parkes. Selby Jacobs is professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is the co-author, with Kathleen Kim, of “Neuroendocrine Changes Following Bereavement,” one of the chapters in Handbook of Bereavement: Theory, Research, and Intervention, edited by Margaret S. Stroebe, Wolfgang Stroebe, and Robert O. Hansson and published by Cambridge University Press. Jacobs wrote “Measures of the Psychological Distress of Bereavement” for Biopsychosocial Aspects of Bereavement, edited by Sidney Zisook and published by the American Psychiatric Association. Colin Murray Parkes, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatry, is internationally famous for his research into bereavement. He provides psychiatric consultation for St. Christopher's Hospice in London, England. His writings on bereavement span four decades. Among his many publications are Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life, Recovery from Bereavement, co-authored with Robert S. Weiss, and The First Year of Bereavement, co-authored with Ira O. Glick and Robert S. Weiss. He contributed the chapter “Bereavement as a Psychosocial Transition: Processes of Adaptation to Change,” which appears in the Handbook of Bereavement edited by Stroebe et al. His article “Ethical Problems in Bereavement Research” is part of the special issue on Ethics and Bereavement Research edited by David E. Balk and Alicia S. Cook and published in Death Studies. A new collection of classic essays on bioethical issues A review of The Least Worst Death: Essays in Bioethics on the End of Life by Margaret P. Battin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 305 pp. ISBN 0-19-508592-2. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-508265-6 (paper) $18.95. Reviewed by John R. Williams. Margaret P Battin is professor of philosophy and adjunct professor of internal medicine in the Division of Medical Ethics at the University of Utah. She is the author of Ethical Issues in Suicde, published in 1982 by Prentice-Hall, and co-editor, with Robert P Huefner, of Changing to National Health Care: Ethical and Policy Issues, published in 1992 by University of Utah Press. John R. Williams is director of the Department of Ethics and Legal Affairs, Canadian Medical Association, and adjunct professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. He was the founding editor of SYNAPSE, a quarterly review of biomedical ethics in Canada and abroad, and is currently editor of the “Canadian Bioethics Report” in the CMA home page of the World Wide Web (http://www.Hwc.CA:8400/INFO-BASE/CBR). Along with Frederick LowY and Douglas A. Sawyer, Dr. Williams is the author of Canadian Physicians and Euthansia, published in 1993 by the Canadian Medical Association; in 1994 Prentice-Hall published Bioethics in Canada, which Dr. Williams wrote along with David J. Roy and Bernard M. Dickens.

A shortened version of an instrument measuring bereavement

The purpose of the study was to develop a tool to measure the grief experience. The Grief Experience Inventory (GEI) [Sanders et al., A Manual for the Grief Experience Inventory. C. M. Sanders, Charlotte, NC (1979)] was revised according to the Parkes [ Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life. International Universities Press, New York (1972)] framework. Four hundred and eighteen subjects who had been primary care givers for significant others prior to the loss of the person through death completed Revised Grief Experience (RGEI) questionnaires. The internal consistency reliability (coefficient alpha) for the RGEI was 0.93. A principal components factor rotation was performed yielding a four factor solution consistent with the theoretical structure (Parkes, 1972). Results demonstrated that the RGEI is a concise, valid, and reliable measure sensitive to the grief experience.

Book Review: Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life

Book Review: Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life

Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life

Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life

Review of Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life (2nd ed.).

Review of Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life (2nd ed.).

The media exchange

Abstract Death: Completion and Discovery edited by Charles A. Corr and Richard A. Pacholski, Lakewood, Ohio: Association for Death Education and Counseling, 1987, 298 pages, paperbound. Reviewed by Daniel Fasko, Jr., Ph.D., School of Education, Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky Bereavement-Studies of Grief in Adult Life by Colin Murray Parkes Madison, Connecticut: International University Press, 1987. Reviewed by E. K. Rynearson, M.D. Section of Psychiatry and Psychology, Virginia Mason Clinic, Seattle I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942–1944 edited by Harm Valor Koua New York: Schachen Books, 1978, 80 pages, ISBN 0-8052-0598-5, Reviewed by Yvette R. Harris Grandpa Doesn't Know it's Me by Donna Gutherie; illustrated by Katy Keck Arnstien, New York: Human Services Press, 1986, 30 pages, paperbound, ISBN 0-89885-308-7, Reviewed by Yvette R. Harris How do we Tell the Children? by Daniel J. Schaefer and Christine Lyons, New York: New Market Press, 1986, 145 pages, ISBN 0-937858-60-9. Reviewed by Yvette R. Harris

Book ReviewBereavement: Studies of grief in adult life

Book ReviewBereavement: Studies of grief in adult life

Book Review: Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life (2nd edn).

Book Review: Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life (2nd edn).

Book Reviews: Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life

Book Reviews: Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life

Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life

Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life

Review of Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life.

Review of Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life.

Book Review: Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life

Book Review: Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life