The measurement of grief: Psychometric considerations in the assessment of reactions to bereavement.

Abstract

When Chantay's cousin, Demarcus, was shot and killed one night on a street in the "wrong part of town," some people in her family regarded the event as sadly inevitable. For the past few years he had been spending more and more time with a bad crowd, getting into drugs and trouble with the law and drifting farther away from family, despite his mother's attempt to hold on to the "good boy" she had raised. Perhaps because she had been brought up in the same tight extended family with Demarcus, Chantay's grief following the traumatic phone call informing her of his death was acute-at an emotional level, she felt like she had lost a brother. Although the family and African American community pulled together at the time of the funeral, Chantay found herself struggling with the unreal sense of the loss in the months that followed as the family adopted a code of silence about the death. Likewise, she struggled with the perception that she, as the oldest daughter, needed to be strong and not disclose her personal distress or the terrifying images of the shooting that so often came at night. What was more confusing was that Chantay's White college roommate kept encouraging her to open up about her feelings, in contradiction to her community's unspoken rule not to share family business with outsiders. For Chantay, however, the religious platitudes she received from family when she did 133

Journal article reporting standards for qualitative primary, qualitative meta-analytic, and mixed methods research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report.

“…Qualitative designs are used for research goals including but not limited to developing theory and attuned understandings (e.g., Stiles, 1993;Hill, 2012), examining the development of a social construct (e.g., Neimeyer, Hogan, & Laurie, 2008), addressing societal injustices (e.g., Fine, 2013), and illuminating social discursive practicesthat is, the way interpersonal and public communications are enacted (e.g., Parker, 2015). In particular, these methods have been found useful to shed light upon sets of findings or literatures that are contradictory, problematic, or ill-fitting for a subpopulation (e.g., Chang & Yoon, 2011); to give a voice to historically disenfranchised populations whose experiences may not be wellrepresented in the research literature (e.g., APA, Presidential Task Force on Immigration 2012; Frost & Ouellette, 2011); and to develop initial understandings in a less explored area (e.g., Creswell, 2013).…”

Reconstructing meaning in bereavement: summary of a research program

“…Finally, it is worth underscoring that adaptation to bereavement entails more than simply surmounting painful symptoms of grief and depression, insofar as significant numbers of people report resilience or even personal growth after loss, outcomes that are no less important to assess and facilitate (Neimeyer, Hogan & Laurie, 2008). Here too, it seems likely that meaningmaking contributes to adaptive outcomes, as longitudinal research on widowhood demonstrates that sense-making in the first 6 months of loss predicts higher levels of positive effect and well-being a full 4 years after the death of a spouse .…”

Blogs de mães enlutadas: o luto e as tecnologias de comunicação

“…Segundo Franco (2009;, os primeiros estudos sobre o luto falavam em uma proposta de desligamento, de afastamento da pessoa falecida, dando ênfase à expressão de sentimentos (FREUD, 1996;BOWLBY, 1980). Atualmente, encontramos outras abordagens, em que o luto é estudado segundo a perspectiva da construção do significado (NADEAU, 1998;NEIMEYER, 2001), e aquelas que se opõem a necessidade de desligamento da pessoa amada, em prol da valorização das possibilidades da manutenção do vínculo (KLASS; SILVERMAN; NICKMAN, 1996;WALTER, 2001). …”