Continuing bonds reported by bereaved individuals in Ecuador

Foster, Terrah L.; Bs, Melissa Roth; Contreras, Roberto; Gilmer, Mary Jo; MEd, Jessie E Gordon

doi:10.1080/02682621.2012.740290

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“…In the case of this review, the amalgamation of these phenomena under the same terminological umbrella is a difficulty when extrapolating from cross-cultural data on continuing bonds to our understanding of BPHDs. An example of this is the investigation of Foster and colleagues (2012) among bereaved Christians in Ecuador, in which 14% of the sample reported feeling the presence of the deceased and 10% reported perceiving (hearing or seeing) them. A full 55% classified these continuing bonds as discomforting, but the researchers did not specify whether these belonged to the latter category.…”

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Perceiving those who are gone: Cultural research on post-bereavement perception or hallucination of the deceased

Sabucedo

Evans

Hayes

2020

Transcult Psychiatry

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Experiencing the continued presence of the deceased is common among the bereaved, whether as a sensory perception or as a felt presence. This phenomenon has been researched from psychological and psychiatric perspectives during the last five decades. Such experiences have been also documented in the ethnographic literature but, despite the extensive cross-cultural research in the area, anthropological data has generally not been considered in the psychological literature about this phenomenon. This paper provides an overview aimed at bridging these two areas of knowledge, and approaches the post-bereavement perception or hallucination of the deceased in cultural context. Ongoing debates are addressed from the vantage point of ethnographic and clinical case study research focusing on the cultural repertoires (in constant flux as cultures change) from which these experiences are labelled as desirable and normal, on the one hand, or as dangerous and pathological, on the other.

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Perceiving those who are gone: Cultural research on post-bereavement perception or hallucination of the deceased

Sabucedo

Evans

Hayes

2020

Transcult Psychiatry

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“…A qualitative study explored how bereaved individuals in Ecuador described continuing bonds and found that 98% of participants reported having purposeful bonds such as keeping belongings or photos or visiting the cemetery (26). Sixty-one percent reported non-purposeful bonds like dreams.…”

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Pediatric palliative care nursing

Akard¹,

Hendricks-Ferguson²,

Gilmer³

2019

Ann. Palliat. Med.

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Palliative care is patient- and family-centered care that enhances quality of life throughout the illness trajectory and can ease the symptoms, discomfort, and stress for children living with life-threatening conditions and their families. This paper aims to increase nurses' and other healthcare providers' awareness of selected recent research initiatives aimed at enhancing life and decreasing suffering for these children and their families. Topics were selected based on identified gaps in the pediatric palliative care literature. Published articles and authors' ongoing research were used to describe selected components of pediatric palliative nursing care including (I) examples of interventions (legacy and animal-assisted interventions); (II) international studies (parent-sibling bereavement, continuing bonds in Ecuador, and circumstances surrounding deaths in Honduras); (III) recruitment methods; (IV) communication among pediatric patients, their parents, and the healthcare team; (V) training in pediatric palliative care; (VI) nursing education; and (VII) nurses' role in supporting the community. Nurses are in ideal roles to provide pediatric palliative care at the bedside, serve as leaders to advance the science of pediatric palliative care, and support the community.

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“…There is a growing literature which describes different cultural and religious customs in relation to bereavements. In recent editions of Bereavement Care, for example, Foster et al (2012), for example, consider continuing bonds in Ecuador, McNally (2011) describes contextual influences on grief in Northern Ireland and Abeles (2010) considers Jewish ways of mourning. These detailed analyses are valuable in furthering understanding of societal aspects of grief and mourning and provide insights to practitioners about particular contexts.…”

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