Grief Research Articles

Pastoral Counseling through Understanding on the Grief of the Loss of Companion Animal

Pastoral Counseling through Understanding on the Grief of the Loss of Companion Animal

Adult's Pet Euthanasia Experience and Complicated Grief: An Exploratory Study on the Risk Factors

Adult's Pet Euthanasia Experience and Complicated Grief: An Exploratory Study on the Risk Factors

At the Intersection of Fear, Grief, and Love.

At the Intersection of Fear, Grief, and Love.

A survey of grief counseling of clinicians from coronavirus disease 2019 designated hospitals

Objective To investigate the current status of grief counseling of clinicians from five coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) designated hospitals in Wuhan and to provide reference for hospital management Methods A total of 223 clinicians from designated hospitals were investigated with a basic information questionnaire and attitudes and skills of grief counseling scales Results A total of 208 valid questionnaires were collected, with an effective rate of 93 3% The score of grief counseling skills of clinicians from COVID-19 designated hospitals was 19 35±4 75, which was in the middle and lower level Responsibilities and roles, and frequency of contacting bereaved family members had significant effects on the grief counseling skills (P＜0 01) While the score of grief counseling attitudes of clinicians was 33 21±9 23, which was in the middle level Whether they had received relevant training, the communication ability, and other grief counseling skills had significant impacts on their grief counseling attitudes (P＜0 01) Conclusion The skills and attitudes of grief counseling of clinicians from COVID-19 designated hospitals in Wuhan still need to be improved The hospital should set up a grief counseling committee, establish a complete grief guidance system and build a long-term training mechanism

“I wish you knew:” Partnering with bereaved parents in identifying existing supports and missed opportunities in the care of children and their families at end of life.

Purpose: Of the 55,000 children who die in the United States each year, the majority die in hospitals, during which time parents interact with many and varied health care practitioners. The words and actions of practitioners impact the parental grief experience. Previous research with bereaved parents has identified important areas in end of life (EOL) care including symptom managment, communication, continuity in relationships with practitioners caring for their child, and bereavement follow-up. To strengthen practitioner skills in pediatric EOL care, medical educators have increasingly included bereaved parents in small …

The Shameful Grief of Unimportant Losses.

The Shameful Grief of Unimportant Losses.

Relationship Between Insecure Attachment and Prolonged Grief of Adults Who Have Bereaved: Mediating Effect of Deliberate Grief Avoidance

Relationship Between Insecure Attachment and Prolonged Grief of Adults Who Have Bereaved: Mediating Effect of Deliberate Grief Avoidance

Grief and Growth: Ann Appreciative Journey

Grief and Growth: Ann Appreciative Journey

Research progress on nursing staff′s coping with death competence

Nursing staff plays a crucial role in the end-stage of a patient′s life, and it is inevitable for nursing staff to face and handle problems about death. The ability to cope with death is of vital importance, which can reduce the risk of emotional distress in nurses, and assist nurses to better participate in patients' end-stage care, and improve the quality of care. This paper summarizes the definition, components, theoretical frameworks and models, assessment tools, status quo, influencing factors of the coping with death competence, and propose the corresponding intervention strategy according to the situation of our country, provide references for the future research. Key words: Nurse; Coping with death competence; Review

Ashlee Cunsolo and Karen Landman (eds.), <i>Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief </i>

Ashlee Cunsolo and Karen Landman (eds.), Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017), xxii + 332 pp., $37.95 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-7735-4934-0.

Review: At Home with Grief: Continuing Bonds with the Deceased, by Paxton, Blake

Review: At Home with Grief: Continuing Bonds with the Deceased, by Paxton, Blake

There Is Grief of a Tree

There Is Grief of a Tree

“Treat Them with the Reverence of Archivists”: Records Work, Grief Work, and Relationship Work in the Archives

In this article, we take up Geoff Wexler and Linda Long’s call to explore the ways in which records and recordkeeping are “bound up” in experiences of loss and grieving. Drawing on theoretical and clinical literature on bereavement, we introduce the concept of grief work and investigate some ways in which grief work can be performed through the creation, use, organization, and preservation of records. We illustrate our study of records work as grief work with examples from the Hamilton Family Fonds at the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections, the Sylvia Plath collections at Smith College and Indiana University, and the Lara Gilbert Fonds at the University of Victoria Archives. Finally, we suggest some impacts – especially the ethical impacts – a grief work perspective might have on the ongoing development of archival theory and methodology. This article lays the conceptual groundwork for a larger, ongoing study on recordkeeping, grief work, and the concept of archival care. RESUMEDans cet article, nous repondons a l’appel lance par Geoff Wexler et Linda Long a explorer comment les documents et la gestion des documents sont impregnees des experiences de perte et de deuil. Puisant dans les etudes theoriques et cliniques sur le deuil, nous presentons le concept de travail de deuil et explorons des facons par lesquelles le travail de deuil peut s’effectuer par la creation, l’utilisation, l’organisation et la preservation de documents. Des exemples du fonds Hamilton Family aux University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections, des collections Sylvia Plath au Smith College et a l’Indiana University et du fonds Lara Gilbert aux University of Victoria Archives servent a illustrer notre etude du travail avec les documents comme travail de deuil. Enfin, nous evoquons certaines retombees, particulierement au niveau ethique, qu’une perspective du travail de deuil pourrait avoir sur le developpement de la theorie et de la methodologie archivistiques. Cet article pose les bases conceptuelles de l’etude plus large et continue de la gestion des documents, du travail de deuil et de la notion de traitement archivistique.

Finding Grace in Grief.

Finding Grace in Grief.

Anticipatory grief and its influencing factors in major caregivers of patients with advanced cancer

Objective To explore the status of anticipatory grief in major caregivers of patients with advanced cancer and its influencing factors. Methods There were 329 major caregivers of patients with advanced cancer recruited between October 2017 and May 2018. The basic data questionnaire, Anticipatory Grief Scale and Perceived Social Support Scale were used in the investigation. Results The scores of anticipatory grief and perceived social support were 88.49±16.47 and 60.33±11.58 respectively. The result of multiple linear regression revealed that relationship with patients, perceived social support, gender and religion were associated with anticipatory grief and could explain 54.2% of the total variance. Conclusions Medical workers should provide assistance to the major caregivers of patients with advanced cancer, respect and encourage the appropriate participation of religious activities, encourage caregivers to fully express their feelings, decrease their adverse emotional reactions and improve their bereavement outcome. Key words: Advanced cancer patients; Major caregivers; Anticipatory grief; Influencing factors

Meaning of funeral in grief —transformation of meaning of funeral—

Meaning of funeral in grief —transformation of meaning of funeral—

Shulman, Lisa (2018). Before and After Loss: A Neurologist’s Perspective on Loss, Grief, and Our Brain.

Shulman, Lisa (2018). <i>Before and After Loss: A Neurologist’s Perspective on Loss, Grief, and Our Brain.</i>

Among the Ashes: On Death, Grief, and Hope by William J. Abraham

Among the Ashes: On Death, Grief, and Hope by <i>William J. Abraham</i>

Grief is the Thing with Feathers

Grief is the Thing with Feathers

The Year Pop died: Celebrity Grief, Memory, Media and Generations

In 2016 – the annus horribilis of pop – the death of music artists such as David Bowie, George Michael and Prince produced a prodigious amount of commemorative initiatives, both spontaneously and within the media and celebrity worlds, with an impressive level of online expressions of grief. Addressing these three cases within the framework of social generation studies, celebrity theory and death studies, the paper proposes some hypotheses on the role that the death of celebrities plays in the construction of generational identity as “discursive articulation” where specific media practices/representations (in our case, mourning practices) play a crucial role in making generational narratives group together around shared symbolic and semantic cores.