Progress in understanding grief, complicated grief, and caring for the bereaved

Love, Anthony

doi:10.5172/conu.2007.27.1.73

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“…Grief occurs with the loss of symbolically important connections and involves intense emotional reactions and changes to individuals' experiences of self, the world and the future. Factors such as personality and life history, social context and cultural practices, and the symbolic magnitude of the loss will shape the individual responses to this severance between the deceased and the living (Love 2007). This is consistent with a social constructivist model that recognises that grief is managed within a social and cultural framework as well as a private and psychological framework (Hung, Lim, Jamaludin 2011;Neimeyer, Klass, Dennis 2014).…”

Section: Understanding Griefmentioning

confidence: 53%

“…(Weber 2001:142) The death of a child has a permanent impact on the lives of families, with shifts in life values, connectedness, relationships, finances and sense of identity (Love 2007). Further complications occur when the child dies suddenly, posing additional challengesfor the bereaved who may try to reconstruct meaning in their world (Neimeyer,Prigerson,Davies 13 2002).When such a catastrophe occurs, some parents are ill equipped to cope and need to seek support in order to continue with their lives.…”

Section: "It Has Been Said That No Parent Ever Gets Over the Grief Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This communication includes words and tone used to grieving parents, feeling comfortable in silences as well as continued communication as bereavement follow-up (Meert et al 2011;Das 2012). A minority will struggle with their grief and experience prolonged, intense or problematic reactions (Love 2007). Love (2007) states that this is particularly the case when the death of a child is experienced and potentially more so when the death was sudden or unintentional.…”

Section: Understanding Griefmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A minority will struggle with their grief and experience prolonged, intense or problematic reactions (Love 2007). Love (2007) states that this is particularly the case when the death of a child is experienced and potentially more so when the death was sudden or unintentional. Psychiatric co-morbidities including depression and anxiety disorders, can occur as elements of grief and a distinct diagnosis of complicated grief disorder has been proposed (Love 2007).…”

Section: Understanding Griefmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Love (2007) states that this is particularly the case when the death of a child is experienced and potentially more so when the death was sudden or unintentional. Psychiatric co-morbidities including depression and anxiety disorders, can occur as elements of grief and a distinct diagnosis of complicated grief disorder has been proposed (Love 2007). Health professionals can identify complicated grief reactions and ensure patients receive specialised treatment, including intensive grief therapy and medication, where indicated.…”

Section: Understanding Griefmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Psycho-social Impact of fatal Child Drowning in Queensland and the Availability and Use of Support

Macintyre¹

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This thesis examines the impact of fatal child (0-18 years) drowning in Queensland, Australia, and the supports available to parents following the death of their child. Using a social constructionist qualitative approach, two sets of participants were interviewed: bereaved parents and service providers. The key areas addressed in this research relate to the experiences of parents following their child's death and the benefits and limitations of community and professional support available to them.Bereavement and bereavement support related to an unintentional child death such as drowning have different elements to other child deaths. There is a dearth of literature that examines optimum support for families who experience a fatal child immersion.Fourteen Queensland parents were interviewed about their experiences following the death of their child, the support services available to and accessed by them, and opportunities for improvement within these services. Seventeen service providers were interviewed about their experiences in dealing with parents of children who had drowned, and the support services offered. Data were thematically analysed. Participants highlighted how life changed forever the day their child drowned. Parents' emotional, physical and spiritual states were compromised and some parents also experienced negative changes in their financial situation. Recurrent fundamental themes were expressed by participants in relation to their overall wellbeing. These were physical and/or emotional health; their sense of identity and the impact on their identity of their perceived failure as protector for their child, surviving children, and spouse; the nature and importance of ongoing relationships with immediate and extended family, friends and colleagues; the importance of continuing to honour their child; and the impact of their child's death on work and finances. Service providers described their specific roles in providing services to parents of fatally drowned children, the professional challenges within those roles and the personal impact of providing this service. Themes include: the relevance of the unique geography of Queensland; resource and referral challenges for many organisations; training and education implications; and the impact of bereavement support work on the providers. A consistent finding for both parents and service providers was the limited understanding across the community and professional services regarding the support families require following an unintentional death such as drowning.ii Attention to improved training and education across community and professional sectors, development of a specialised referral database and further research into school and workplace bereavement policies and procedures were key suggestions. Whilst the child drowning rate is decreasing In Queensland due to a number of intervention strategies, unintentional deaths from drowning continue to occur and impact irreversibly on families.Service providers, like parents, clearly articulated ways to ...

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Section: Understanding Griefmentioning

confidence: 53%

Section: "It Has Been Said That No Parent Ever Gets Over the Grief Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Understanding Griefmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Understanding Griefmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Understanding Griefmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Psycho-social Impact of fatal Child Drowning in Queensland and the Availability and Use of Support

Macintyre¹

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Complicated Grief

DiBiase¹

2012

Case Studies in Palliative and End‐of‐Life Care

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Phone follow up to families of COVID‐19 patients who died at the hospital: families' grief reactions and clinical psychologists' roles

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A proportion of persons affected by coronavirus disease‐19 (COVID‐19) die and do so in extraordinary circumstances. This can make grief management extremely challenging for families. The Clinical Psychology unit of an Italian hospital offered a bereavement follow‐up call to such families. This study aimed to explore the families' experiences and needs collected during these calls, and the role that the psychologists played through the call. A total of 246 families were called over 3 months. Multiple qualitative methods included: (i) written reports of the calls with relatives of patients who died at the hospital for COVID‐19; (ii) qualitative semi‐structured interviews with psychologists involved in the calls; (iii) observation of psychologists' peer group discussions. A thematic analysis was conducted. Six themes emerged: without death rituals, solitary, unexpected, unfair, unsafe, coexisting with other stressors. Families' reactions were perceived by psychologists as close to a traumatic grief. Families' needs ranged from finding alternative rituals to giving meaning and expressing different emotions. The psychologists played both a social‐institutional and a psychological‐human role through the calls (e.g., they cured disrupted communication or validated feelings and choices). This study highlighted the potential of traumatic grief of families of COVID‐19 victims, and provided indications for supporting them within the space of a short phone call.

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Progress in understanding grief, complicated grief, and caring for the bereaved

Cited by 32 publications

References 22 publications

The Psycho-social Impact of fatal Child Drowning in Queensland and the Availability and Use of Support

The Psycho-social Impact of fatal Child Drowning in Queensland and the Availability and Use of Support

Complicated Grief

Phone follow up to families of COVID‐19 patients who died at the hospital: families' grief reactions and clinical psychologists' roles

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