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Leidig-Farmen, Pamela. "Glimpses of grief." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/845931.
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The purpose of this creative project was to represent the structure and dynamics of the emotion of grief through a visual medium. Grief, as a process that occurs over time, is usually represented sequentially and verbally as in the writings of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. This project depicts the stages of grief by representing them both sequentially and simultaneously from a first person point of view by means of a visual medium, (i.e., videotape) in order to emotionally and personally involve the viewer in the process.The creative project is comprised of four video tapes each differing in length. of time between fifteen to thirtyfive minutes. The video tapes are presented as a documentary having a total of five participants who candidly express their experience with the death of a significant person in their lives and how they dealt with their grief. The four videos are shown all at the same time with the television monitors approximately twelve to fifteen feet apart.The video tapes are on file in the Art Department.Department of Art
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Ward, Margaret Siobhan. "A Mother's Grief: Kathe Kollwitz Descends into the Marginalized." Thesis, Boston College, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/450.
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Thesis advisor: Susan A. MichalczykKäthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) was a progressive artist who used art as a cathartic means to live through the death of her son in WWI and grandson in WWII. Trapped in the sexist generation of early 20th century Germany, Käthe defied the society in which she lived to create art that served as an empathetic mouthpiece for society's marginalized. She created thousands of lithographs and hundreds of sculptures depicting war, death, and poverty. Käthe found beauty in the struggle of the working class and constantly used her physician husband's patients as subjects of her work. As she continued into the socialist realm, she made enemies with German leaders, including Adolph Hitler. Her work fiercely rejected Germany's involvement in World War I and condemned Hitler's Third Reich near the onset of World War II. Käthe's use of bleak colors and disturbing subject matter penetrates the viewer's comfort zone. The viewer is unable to turn away from her work without feeling guilt, and is forever haunted by her prudent recognition of truth
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Novakovic, Biljana. "Art as Transport Station of Trauma." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18402.
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Research Paper This research examines matrixial theory as developed by feminist theorist, artist and psychoanalyst Bracha Ettinger in order to bring the insights of this theory to bear on trauma-related art. Ettinger’s matrixial theory is based on the notion that, for every human subject, the earliest, prenatal stages of development begin in relation to another human being. Chapter 1 discusses Ettinger's theory alongside Freud and Lacan, and approaches subjectivity and trauma by first exploring the limitations of subjectivity as described in classical psychoanalysis. Ettinger’s observation that the prenatal stages of development begin in relation to another person opens up the possibility to think about trauma as transmissible and art as subjectivizing the encounter event. She claims that the disposition of sharing trauma is innate to subjectivity and humanity. Chapter 2 describes and analyses Doris Salcedo’s, Louise Bourgeois’ and my own art as possible “transport-stations” of trauma. It analyses artists’ creative processes and viewers’ relations with works of art through the matrixial model as a creative space for meeting and reconnecting with the vulnerability of the other by com-passionate wit(h)nessing. Creative Work The installation that I will exhibit for examination will consist of materials and objects from three works I have been developing in parallel during my research studies. The idea is to construct a world as an artistic installation, as space and time for possible encounter event between viewer and art work, where transsubjective borderlinking is possible. Charged with the grains of my personal and others’ trauma, different objects and materials that I made, sewed or transformed will be involved in a complex relationship of co-inhabiting and co-existing in the same space. Not knowing in advance what that space will be, I will work the space by weaving many strings, visible and invisible, linking with my own known and unknown others, my own and others’ histories, and my own sensitivities to the world. Traditionally handmade work, wool and crocheted pieces, and traditional methods of making will be part of my installation, but will not be visible in a recognizable way. As a necessary part of my art process they are transformed with deep care and commitment and will be invisible elements of the installation that will become the destiny for my artwork, imbued with traces of my own trauma, that of my family, and of others.
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D'Addario, Knight Anna Maria Antoinette. "Farewell Angelina: Trauma, loss, grief and the photographic." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18787.
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Farewell Angelina is a reflection of a journey of grief explored poetically and with urgency through photography and the creation of a photographic bookwork. This bookmaking process reveals an autobiographical inquiry into the power of photographic art practice to respond to trauma, loss and grief and to help shape meaning in the aftermath. This research project began after the sudden and violent loss of my sister in 2015, and gradually became a path to live and make sense of life again. Accompanying this process I began an inquiry into how it is that photography and other art practices console and allow us to mediate suffering. With this investigation I theorise the capacity of artistic mediums, such as photography, to house memory and give form to otherwise inchoate and chaotic emotions and doing so, help us to shape the meaning we make of our lives and our worlds after profound loss. This inquiry, which responds directly to personal history, also reflects on art’s ability to create sites for grief and mourning. With my bookwork I invite others to engage with memorial and creative survival, and in doing this I reject the notion that mourning must be private and repressed. Making this work I recognise that art practice, no matter how personal its origins, also plays a social role and can be a poignant place to communicate, discuss and break silence after violent loss.
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Ertmann, Jacqueline. "Death, grief, bereavement, and transformation: A curriculum for the art room." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278812.
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There has been very little research in the area of art as therapy with respect to curriculum for the art room. In-service and pre-service teachers are not trained, or prepared, to talk about death and losses with their students. This study surveyed pre-service teachers attitudes toward lesson plans for children about loss. The idea of using art as a creative way to mourn or grieve is an innovative idea. Future research must be conducted to determine if art specialists, in-service teachers, parents, and school administration would agree that curriculum on loss for use by an art specialist or regular classroom teacher would be helpful when presented as part of a death education curriculum.
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Macindoe, Annie C. "Melancholy and the memorial: Representing loss, grief and affect in contemporary visual art." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/119695/1/Annie_Macindoe_Thesis.pdf.
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Melancholy and the Memorial: Representing Loss, Grief and Affect in Contemporary Visual Art is a practice-led project that explores how contemporary art can respond to the limitations of traditional forms of language in the representation of trauma, loss and grief. The project reflects on the work of theorists and artists who also explore the ineffability of these memories and experiences. The creative outcomes have investigated how text, moving image, sound and space can be combined to reframe the dialogue around public and private expressions of trauma and open up discussion of the potential for shared, affectual experiences through art.
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Griffin, Sylvia Clare. "Inscribing Memory: Art and the Place of Personal Expressions of Grief in Memorial Culture." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16138.
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Expressing grief and engaging in mourning are vital healing processes for those who have experienced loss, trauma or violence. Regardless of whether in the distant past or as an ongoing condition, evidence suggests that the mourning process and the partaking of commemorative rituals are essential to the psychological and emotional wellbeing of the individual. This thesis considers artistic alternatives to the role that monuments and memorials have traditionally played in assisting this process. A range of theorists and philosophers including those in the fields of art criticism, history, and trauma studies are referred to in ascertaining not only how monuments and memorials work, but the role that contemporary art can play in imparting meaningful remembrance and solace. This project tests the proposition that contemporary art, through both public and personal expression, can offer an open- ended re-evaluation of the past, instead of the static nature of traditional commemoration. I contend that this can be realised in the form of actions and ephemeral, temporary and materially challenging artistic means in engaging the viewer empathically. I will advance arguments to challenge fixing memory in place and time while also arguing for the place of smaller, more personal expressions of remembrance. My studio practice incorporates pertinent psychological aspects such as postmemory and trauma-induced forgetting in the form of absence, and considers the work of key artists. This studio work investigates materiality – as both traditionally employed in memorial culture, such as metal and stone - and other forms including textiles and more fugitive examples such as hair and the use of fire. The relevance of time, memory and ritual are also evident in this work as well as in the thesis. Although informed by personal, familial experience – often conveyed through my use of family possessions - my works appeal to broader aspects of memorial culture, engaging in customs and rituals and universal themes of loss and grief.
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Weston, Despina. "Death and renewal : a process of growth through loss." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2009. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1856.
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Moore (1994) suggests that a liminal experience can take us from an often divided sense of self and connect us with our own heroic stories. This longitudinal study traces nine journeys of renewal described through experiences of loss. Loss in this context is not limited to actual death but is explored through narrative, symbol ism and the creative arts as tangible expressions of the participants ‘grief and its movement towards renewal . Participants were called to review, evaluate and grow in new ways. The descent, struggle, and growth they experienced is what Campbell (1973) calls our mythic journey.
“The Studio” and its particular culture of community mentorship is defined as an entity in its own right. Participants ‘grief narratives are explored through their creative works and the lenses of community and mentors. Participants from “The Studio” were interviewed to glean their perceptions on: (1) a significant death, (2) a liminal experience, (3) community, (4) mentors, (5) rituals for self - soothing, self-expression and support, (6) groups and (7) aspirations. The purpose of this was two-fold. Firstly as a way of making tacit the participants‘ group experiences and secondly to gather data by which a multi-modal programme — “The Retreat ”—was designed based on the participants ‘responses and was implemented as a three day live-in art therapy programme. Participants ‘art work from “The Studio” was used as a baseline for loss and grief imagery and as a historical visual overview of the participants‘ underlying themes in their grief stories.
The client/therapist relationship forms a key feature of the study, as does the concept that others can serve as mentors. Participants had a diverse range of anomalous losses between them such as: sibling and parental loss, relationship loss, rejection and deprivation of love from family, overpowering criticism and emotional, verbal and physical abuse, loss of access to grandchildren, loss of a breast, loss of a family business and lifestyle.
The purpose of “The Retreat” programme was to transform existing perceptions of loss through the use of creative media, journal processes, and community experiences to record an unfolding process. It is proposed that the arts and the symbolic connect individuals to both the inner self and to others. Art therapy as the bridge between verbal therapies is a creative practice. Coupled with experiences of community and solitude it can invoke deeper connections to others and environment rather than to hierarchical methods that are geared only towards achievement and accomplishment. A post-research interview tracked participants’ perceptions of the success of “The Retreat ” programme for personal change.
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Dobler, Robert. "New American Ways of Death: Anxiety, Mourning, and Commemoration in American Culture." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18430.
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The experiences of grief and mourning in response to loss are fundamentally transformative to the self-identity of the mourner, necessitating an array of ritualized behaviors at the communal and individual levels. These rituals of mourning both create a space in which this transformation may take place and provide the structure that can direct that transformation. My focus is on historical and emerging forms of vernacular commemoration, by which I refer to material forms that are created by, acted upon, or in other ways utilized by a person experiencing grief in the service of regaining a sense of stability in the aftermath of loss. The re-integration of the bereaved, through mourning, back into society in new relation with the departed is often assisted by these vernacular memorial forms. My analysis focuses on three specific forms of commemoration: spirit photographs, ghost bikes, and memorial tattoos. These are vernacular forms of expression in the sense that they have emerged from and cater to individual needs and desires that are not satisfied by the more official and uniform materials and processes of mourning, such as the funeral service and subsequent visits to a gravesite or contemplation of an ash-filled urn. The power of these memorial forms rests in the adaptive and restorative abilities of memory to retain the lost relationship and to pull it forward and reconstitute it in a changed state as enduring and continuing into the future.
When faced with the sudden death of a loved one, the traditional rituals that surround modern death may seem too rigid and homogenized to satisfy the wide array of emotions demanding attention in the bereaved. This is where the vernacular rituals and new forms of commemoration discussed in this dissertation spring up and make themselves known. Highly individual, yet often publicly and politically motivated, these new American ways of interpreting death and performing mourning represent the changing needs of contemporary mourners. As death has become increasingly hidden away and discussion of it rendered taboo, the need for personal and direct interaction with the processes of grief and mourning have become more and more important.2016-09-29
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Kozlova, Ekaterina E. "'Whoever lost children lost her heart' : valourised maternal grief in the Hebrew Bible." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:eb33c1be-0f1b-45e3-bb38-6ec147250b9b.
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Recent studies on ancient Israel's mortuary culture have shown that mourning rites were not restricted to the occasions of death, burial and subsequent grief but were, in fact, implemented in diverse contexts. In this thesis I am looking at biblical traditions in which these solemn practices contributed, or sought to contribute to various forms of social restoration. More specifically, I explore the stories of biblical grieving mothers who are placed at key junctures in Israel's history to renegotiate the destinies not only of their own children, dead or lost, but also those of larger communities, i.e. family lines, ethnic groups, or entire nations. Since 'the social and ritual dimensions of mourning are intertwined and inseparable ... [and] rites in general are a context for the creation and transformation of social order', these women use the circumstance of their 'interrupted' motherhood as a platform for a kind of grief-driven socio-political activism. Since maternal bereavement is generally understood as the most intense of all types of loss and was seen as archetypal of all mourning in ancient Near Eastern cultures, Israelite communities in crisis deemed sorrowing motherhood as a potent agent in bringing about their own survival and resurgence back to normalcy. I begin my discussion on mourning rites as tools of social preservation and restoration in biblical traditions with (1) a list of modern examples that attest to a phenomenon of social, political, and religious engagement among women that stems from the circumstance of child loss; (2) a survey of recent grief and death studies that identify maternal grief as the most intense and the most enduring among other types of bereavement; (3) an overview of ancient Near Eastern cultures (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Hatti, Syro-Palestine) that not only viewed maternal grief as paradigmatic of all mourning but also utilised ritual actions performed by mothers in contexts of large scale catastrophes as mechanisms for dealing with a collective trauma. Against this background my project then turns to discuss four biblical mothers: Hagar (Gen. 21:14-21), Rizpah (2 Sam. 21:1-14), the woman of Tekoa (2 Sam. 14:1-20) and Rachel (Jer. 31:15-22), all of whom perform rites for their dying or dead children and exhibit a form of advocacy for society at large.
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Weiskittle, Rachel E. "The Efficacy of a Group Visual Art Bereavement Intervention with Older Adults." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5940.
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Research on expressive art interventions for bereavement has burgeoned in recent years. Studies have supported their effectiveness in facilitating participants’ adjustment to loss (e.g., Rosner, Kruse, & Hagl, 2010; Uttley, 2015) and have revealed the frequency with which they are clinically implemented (Thompson & Neimeyer, 2014). Clinicians and recipients of expressive art interventions advocate for their helpfulness in grief processing (e.g., Gamino, 2015). Publications have highlighted particular visual art modules that facilitate adaptive adjustment to loss by providing avenues for self-expression, meaning making and continuing bonds with the deceased (Neimeyer, 2016), but few studies have quantitatively investigated whether they improve bereavement outcomes. Efficacy of treatment modalities are especially warranted for bereaved subgroups at elevated risk for developing symptoms of complicated grief, such as socioeconomically vulnerable older adults, as they are among those most likely to benefit from intervention but face the most barriers to accessible treatment (Ghesquiere, 2013; Newson et al., 2011). This longitudinal study investigated the feasibility and efficacy of a 4-week grief support group with visual art modalities for bereaved older adults residing in government subsidized independent living facilitates in the community. Measured outcomes included meaning made from the loss, continued bonds with the deceased, perceived social support, personal growth, and negative bereavement experiences such as symptoms of complicated grief and depression. Findings from this study support the feasibility and acceptability of implementing an art-based grief support group for socioeconomically vulnerable older adults. Significant improvement was found in meaning made from the loss, personal growth, and negative grief symptoms. Depressive symptoms significantly decreased immediately following completion of the group, but these levels returned closer to baseline levels at one-month follow up. Participants who screened positively for complicated grief at baseline reported greater improvement in their negative grief symptoms and depression, consistent with the extant literature that the bereft in highest distress receive the most benefit from grief intervention. As complicated grief is more prevalent in the older adult population than other age groups, further investigation on the efficacy and effectiveness of targeted bereavement support is warranted.
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Webb-Ferebee, Kelly. "Expressive Arts Therapy with Bereaved Families." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2861/.
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Most current grief programs support the children and/or parents of bereaved families rather than the family as a whole. This exploratory study was a quantitative and qualitative investigation of the use of expressive arts therapy with bereaved families during a weekend camp experience and a series of followup sessions. The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of using expressive arts activities in improving the functioning of the bereaved family as a whole as well as individual family members. Participants included eight families who lost a child to a chronic illness between 2 to 36 months months prior to the onset of the study. Children ranged in age from 3 to15, and parents ranged in age from 26 to 66, for a total of 27 participants. The Child Life Department at Children's Medical Center of Dallas, a division of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas recruited the families. Participants received flyers and invitational letters and registered through the mail. Families attended a weekend camp where they experienced a wide variety of expressive arts activities in a combination of group formats: multi-family groups, parents' group, developmental age groups for children, total childrens' group, individual family group, mothers' group, and fathers' group. The research design was a pretest/posttest quasi-experimental control group design, but a control group could not be established. Therefore, one-tailed t-tests were used to compare participant functioning between the beginning and end of the study. Instruments used in this study included the Family Environment Scale, the Behavior Assessment System for Children the Beck Anxiety Inventory and the Beck Depression Inventory. In addition, the researcher used qualitative analysis to assess contents of family members' and counseling staff's journals, expressive arts products, and family members' evaluations. Results of this exploratory study indicated some improvements in children's, parents' and total family functioning. Expressive arts therapy shows promise in effecting constructive change in bereaved families and is deserving of further research.
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Carpenter, Julia Lauren. "Otherwise." Thesis, Montana State University, 2006. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2006/carpenter/CarpenterJ1206.pdf.
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The nine, largescale paintings of my MFA Thesis show, \"Otherwise,\" are artifacts from a year long exorcism of grief and anger over my young sister\'s terrible, yet merciful death. I painted my sister\'s image through the filter of my own emotion exploring scale, color, and the gestural mark. In addition I painted her son, whose image links the past to the future.
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Krallitsch, Theresa. "The weight of the wait." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5540.
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Barone, Ryan. "Private viewing /." Online version of thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/9746.
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Battersby, Jamie Thomas William. "The Door To Before Closes, and You Grieve That Too." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555517321452505.
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Harris, Susanna. "The Nature of Loss." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1620050401352492.
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Svrckova, Tatiana. "Nexus." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1341527229.
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Davis, Rachel Andrea. "If I forget you, it doesn't mean I didn't love you." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1501461061076469.
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Ramsey, Anna Brooks, and Anna Brooks Ramsey. "A Million Metaphors for Love: Mending Posthuman Heartache in the Anthropocene." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625681.
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In this research, I investigate multiple entry points for understanding and developing art and visual culture curriculum to respond to the Anthropocene. Informed by posthuman, feminist, and ecological theories, I ask what practices and theory art educators might take up to cultivate emergent artistic practices with students toward responding to the geological, social, and present moment.
Organized around integrating visual art into school and community garden sites, this writing includes curriculum theory, a unit design and reflections on implementation and the writing process. Using autoethnographic and visual art methodologies, I attempt to engage the subjective relational space between myself, my psyche, and the phenomenon of teaching, writing, and embodying this curriculum. Through this research, I wanted to know whether co-facilitating with human and non-human members of school gardens would stabilize affective and relational containers of care and stewardship as part of the learning environment. To this end, I found that co-facilitating with place, including the garden, is a stabilizing environment for myself as a teacher, but can also be conducive to perpetuating Western and white narratives of place.
Another central theme and finding from this data was the lived experiences of grief. Employing autoethnography (Ellis & Bochner, 2000), I reflected on my teaching through my psyche, body, and emotions. I found and analyzed this data through present moment awareness of my embodied response to the experience of writing and facilitating a four-week art curriculum with middle school girls in their school garden. As an emergent response to this grief, I have therefore organized my writing around the notion of mending posthuman heartache in the Anthropocene. This is a call I believe educators should take seriously. The Anthropocene moment is in so many ways the result of deep disconnection and separation, years of violence against the planet, and against humanity in the forms of colonization, patriarchy, white-supremacy, and capitalism.
I hope for this research to contribute to animating art and visual culture education toward affective and critical ecological solutions to the moment we are living in. The implications of this research are not empirical in nature, but rather take up poetic, artistic, and enigmatic qualities of the present to tease out ways of being with, working against, and creatively responding to these times in which we live. To conclude, I believe any practices that cultivate care and affective relationship to place, self, and the other members of our human/non-human communities, such as visual art and gardening practices, can serve as containers and resources for living in the Anthropocene.
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Martin, Julia. "Days Ending in Why." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32993.
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In DAYS ENDING IN WHY, interdisciplinary artist Julia Martin identifies the schism of her autobiographical practice: deep melancholia and absurd irony. The fragmentation of the works presented knowingly resist cohesion, instead, through their arrangements and the potentials of space between them, they carry on conversations with one another. Rooted in the personal narrative, the works span across multiple mediums; photography, film, installation/sculpture, and literature. Martin emphasizes both the tragic and the comedic, pacing the show as a play between the two. Also, there are cats.
So many cats.
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Lowson, Shona. "Sacred memories : creative art therapy for children in grief : a research paper submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Applied) in Nursing /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/67.
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Kohut, Mary K. "Assessment of Expressive Therapies in Summer Bereavement Camps." Ursuline College / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=urs1210946513.
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White, Patricia A. "Exploration of nurse practitioner practice with clients who are grieving /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2007. http://0-digitalcommons.uri.edu.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3277012.
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Schiffner, Kellye D. "Influences on Grief Among Parentally Bereaved Adults." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84272/.
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The parent-child relationship is significant throughout the life course, although both positive and negative changes occur as children reach adulthood and develop an identity independent of their family of origin. Grief resulting from parental loss during this time may be a product of many variables including age, relationship quality, and sex roles. The current study examined several variables potentially influencing grief after the death of a parent. As part of a larger study, adults (n = 180) completed measures assessing parental involvement, personal grief and adjustment, as well as sex role preferences. The archival data were subjected to analyses of covariance, taking into account time since the death and children’s sex role preferences (traditional or egalitarian). Female sex of the child was significant in predicting several aspects of grief, suggesting that women have a stronger emotional experience of grief. This may be a result of young women’s stronger emotional bonds with parents when compared to men, feelings of exclusion from college peers during bereavement, or vulnerability for rumination. Sex role preferences were also influential in several aspects of grief. Sex of the parent was not significant, although the interaction for sex of the parent and sex of the child was, suggesting that for daughters, the loss of a mother may be particularly difficult. Results suggest that women may express more intense emotions as part of the grief process and maintain stronger bonds with the deceased, although this likely depends heavily on cultural, familial, and religious contexts, as well as cause of death.
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Schellbach, Paul. ""Blessed are those who mourn" penthos in Christian spirituality /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Spiegelberg, Mandi. "Coping with loss supporting school-aged children who are dealing with bereavement /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2006/2006spiegelbergm.pdf.
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Koenig, Paige Elizabeth. "Hyperflora." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1587746033093009.
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Clower, Christen E. "Pregnancy Loss: Disenfranchised Grief and Other Psychological Reactions." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4340/.
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It is widely acknowledged in the literature that grief is most intense when it is experienced by parents whose children have died. However, as recently as 20 years ago, mothers whose children died at birth or before the pregnancy had reached full term were often dismissed as merely medical patients, and their psychological reactions were not considered or acknowledged by professionals, their friends, or their families. More recently fields such as psychology have recognized that women who have experienced pregnancy loss have complex psychological reactions to their loss. The present study examined the patterns of grief of women who have had a pregnancy end in spontaneous abortion or stillbirth and the ways in which these women gave meaning to their experiences. Participants were asked to complete several measures including the Perinatal Grief Scale (PGS), the Hogan Grief reaction Checklist (HGRC), the Perceived Social Support Scale (PSS), and the Inventory of Social Support (ISS). The participants also wrote a narrative account of their loss experience. These narratives were content analyzed to delineate common themes. The findings indicated several important factors which may be useful in understanding and assisting in post-loss adjustment.
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Henderson, John Mark. "The Relationship Between Adjustment And Bereavement-Related Distress: A Longitudinal Study." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3250/.
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The current study assessed 125 conjugally bereaved persons using multiple self-report measures as indicators of personal adjustment and bereavement distress across three times of testing (initial, 6-month, and 3-year follow-up). Cross-lagged panel analyses were conducted to examine the causal relationships between adjustment and bereavement distress indicators and overall factors. Exploratory factor analyses indicate measures of adjustment load on a single Adjustment factor and measures of bereavement distress load on a single Grief factor. Considering results using composite scores for each variable, adjustment was significantly more predictive of bereavement distress than bereavement distress was predictive of adjustment for both Time 1 to Time 3 and Time 2 to Time 3. Adjustment issues measured by indicators such as the UCLA, POMS, HSC, BDI, and RSES significantly influenced the extent of grief symptoms as measure by the BEQ and the severity of scope of grief symptoms as assessed by the IOLQ.
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Parrish, Pamela Jo 1953. "How well are children's needs met in the children to children grief-support groups." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278417.
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The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether Children to Children's grief-support groups helped young participants cope with their grief, and which elements of the program were most helpful. The population for this study consisted of six bereaved children between the ages of 5 and 18 who were referred by Children to Children. The instrument used in this study was developed specifically to measure grief in children by self-report. Other information-gathering techniques were used to determine children's attributions for change and their view of their families before and after the loved one's death. It was found that the Children to Children grief-support groups were helpful to the participants. Participants cited two components of the program as most helpful: ritual, verbal sharing of the circumstances of the loved one's death, and being with other children who were going through a similar experience.
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Clark, Sheila. "Loss and grief in general practice : the development and evaluation of two instruments to detect and measure grief in general practice patients /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://thesis.library.adelaide.edu.au/public/adt-SUA20041217.150143.
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Foster, Ryan D. "Effects of a Near-Death Experience Learning Module on Grief." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30455/.
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The researcher examined the effectiveness of a near-death experience (NDE) learning module on reducing distressing aspects and enhancing a growth aspect of grief among bereaved adults. Participants were 22 females and 2 males; 2 identified as African American, 3 as Asian, 2 as Latina/o, and 17 as White; aged 20 to 71 years with mean age 35.3 years. In this experimental design, the researcher randomly assigned 12 participants to the experimental group and 12 participants to the waitlist no treatment control group. Participants in the experimental group received the NDE learning module intervention, which consisted of 3 sessions over consecutive weeks. Six research questions were explored. A two-factor repeated measures analysis of variance was performed on five dependent variables to determine if the two groups performed differently across time according to the pretest and posttest results of the Despair, Panic Behavior, Personal Growth, Detachment, and Disorganization subscales of the Hogan Grief Reaction Checklist (HGRC). A one-way analysis of covariance was performed on one dependent variable to determine if the groups were statistically different according to the posttest results of the Blame and Anger subscale of the HGRC. Additionally, univariate eta squared was hand calculated to determine practical significance. Findings indicated that bereaved adults who participated in the NDE learning module showed small effect size for interaction on Panic Behavior (η2 = .05) and Personal Growth (η2 = .05), large effect size for interaction on Detachment (η2 = .15), large effect size for treatment type on Blame and Anger (η2 = .15), and negligible effect size for interaction on Despair (η2 < .01) and Disorganization (η2 < .01). Although no statistically significant results were found for any of the dependent variables (p > .05), effect size findings indicated modest to substantial benefits of the NDE learning module intervention for bereaved adults in the form of decreased panic behavior, blame and anger, and detachment, and increased personal growth. Implications for further research beyond this initial investigation are discussed.
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Nsimba, Joseph. "La Notion d'acte faisant grief dans le droit administratif français." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb376084472.
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Spargo, R. Clifton. "The ethics of mourning : grief and responsibility in elegiac literature /." Baltimore (Md.) ; London : the J. Hopkins university press, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39275034x.
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Ziino, Bart. "A distant grief : Australians, war graves and the Great War /." Crawley : University of West Australia Press, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41067725t.
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BREEN, Lauren, and l. breen@ecu edu au. "Silenced Voices: Experiences of Grief Following Road Traffic Crashes in Western Australia." Edith Cowan University. Computing, Health And Science: School Of Psychology, 2007. http://adt.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2007.0026.html.
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Despite the introduction of road safety measures and media campaigns, crashes are a leading cause of death in Western Australia. While economic costs of crashes are relatively easy to determine, their psychosocial burden remains appreciably under-studied, as are the social, cultural, historical, temporal, and political contexts within which grief experiences are housed. As such, I explored the experience of grief resulting from losing a loved one in a crash in Western Australia and described the influence of contextual factors on those grief experiences.
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Breen, Lauren Jennifer. "Silenced voices experiences of grief following road traffic crashes in Western Australia /." Connect to thesis, 2006. http://portal.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2007.0026.html.
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OLIVEIRA, SANDRA RODRIGUES DE. "WHERE ARE YOU NOW THAN HERE, INSIDE ME?: THE GRIEF OF THE MOTHERS OF MISSING CHILDREN." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=12034@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORO desaparecimento de pessoas é um fenômeno complexo que suscita sentimentos ambíguos, tais como esperança/desesperança, tristeza, culpa, raiva e impotência. O presente estudo teve como objetivo investigar o impacto do desaparecimento de um filho, sob circunstâncias desconhecidas, a partir da ótica das mães. Participaram da pesquisa 11 mães com filhos desaparecidos misteriosamente, no estado do Rio de Janeiro, entre os anos de 2002 e 2005. As crianças tinham entre 11 meses e 11 anos na ocasião do desaparecimento. Foram realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas e, a partir da técnica de análise de conteúdo, os dados foram agrupados em 4 categorias, assim nomeadas: 1)impacto do desaparecimento; 2) relacionamento com marido/companheiro/namorado/pai da criança; 3) relacionamento com outros filhos; 4) enfrentando o desaparecimento: facilitadores e complicadores. Constatou-se que, diante do desaparecimento súbito e misterioso de seus filhos, todas as participantes apresentaram inicialmente reações de negação, choque, entorpecimento, desespero e medo. Após o choque inicial, foram citadas reações de ansiedade e sentimentos de culpa, impotência, descrença, tristeza e raiva, em contraposição a sentimentos de esperança, fé, determinação e certeza do reencontro com o filho desaparecido. As entrevistadas também se sentiram desamparadas por seus maridos/companheiros atuais, pois esperavam que estes expressassem seu luto da mesma forma que elas, considerando-os inadequados e negligentes por não o fazerem. Na relação com os outros filhos, nota-se que, se por um lado algumas mães tornaram-se superprotetoras, há casos nos quais estas passaram a negligenciá-los. Conclui-se, por fim, que, para estas mães, fatores como a falta de certezas sobre como e onde está o filho, a inexistência de rituais, o prolongamento indefinido da situação e o julgamento de outras pessoas (especialmente de outras mães) podem contribuir negativamente para o processo de elaboração da perda. Por outro lado, a formação de grupos com mães de crianças desaparecidas e a possibilidade de compartilhar sentimentos apresenta-se como um importante recurso para a reestruturação e reorganização destas mulheres.
The disappearance of people is a complex phenomenon that raises ambiguous feelings such as hope/despair, sadness, guilt, anger and helplessness. This study aimed to investigate the impact of the disappearance of a child, under unknown circumstances, from the mothers` perspectives. Eleven mothers with children disappeared mysteriously participated in the survey, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, between 2002 and 2005. The children were between 11 months and 11 years old at the time of the disappearance. Semi-structured interviews were performed and, from the technical analysis of content, the data were grouped into 4 categories, named: 1) impact of the disappearance, 2) relationship with husband / partner / boyfriend / father of the child, 3) relationships with other children, 4) facing the disappearance: facilitators and complications. It was found that, before the sudden and mysterious disappearance of their children, all participants initially had reactions of denial, shock, numbness, despair and fear. After the initial shock, reactions of anxiety and feelings of guilt, helplessness, disbelief, sadness and anger were said, as opposed to feelings of hope, faith, determination and certainty of meeting again the disappeared child. The interviewees also felt helplessness by their husbands / partners, because they hoped to express their mourning in the same way as them, considering them unsuitable and negligent for not acting equally. Regarding to the other children, note that, if on the one hand, some mothers have become overprotective, there are cases where they neglected them. It is concluded, finally, that for these mothers, factors such as the lack of certainty about how and where the child is, the lack of rituals, the indefinite extension of the situation and the judgment of other people (especially by other mothers) can contribute negatively to the process of coping. Furthermore, the formation of groups with mothers of missing children and the possibility of sharing feelings presents itself an important resource for the restructuring and reorganization of these women.
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Morgan, Naomi Mary Ann. "Nurses' education and their experiences of caring for people who are dying and their families." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360313.
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Oelmann, Klaus Henning. "Edvard Grieg : Versuch einer Orientierung /." Egelsbach ; New York : Hänsel-Hohenhausen, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35799052j.
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Stephen, Krystal Amelia. "Prolonged Grief and Couple Functioning: The Role of Religious Coping and Social Support." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1538713/.
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Our sample consisted of 116 adults aged 18 and older, recruited from college and community settings. Participants were currently in a romantic relationship and endorsed the sudden and/or violent death of a family member, close friend, or romantic partner. We hypothesized that: 1) prolonged grief is associated with poor dyadic functioning; 2) social support moderates the relationship between prolonged grief and dyadic functioning; 3) religious coping moderates the association between prolonged grief and dyadic functioning. Results indicated that prolonged grief was not significantly related to dyadic functioning, and neither social support nor religious coping moderated this association.
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Tomlinson, Catherine, and res cand@acu edu au. "A Review of the grief process and bereavement follow up support." Australian Catholic University. School of Nursing, 2001. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp11.25072005.
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Grief is a life changing and universal experience, expressed through individual sets of responses and behaviours. Society and health workers interpretation and beliefs regarding grief and bereavement have changed throughout the decades. This is a continually evolving process. As we move into a new century, so too does grief move into a new era where a new postmodern paradigm is arising. We are thus deviating away from stage theories that are time limited, linear and predictable. Emphasis in this new wave of thought is placed upon grief as an oscillating and highly unique experience, one that encourages a continuation of a bond and lifetime relationship with the deceased. This current qualitative study explores the new phenomenon in relation to both the grief process and bereavement support programs, by extensively reviewing the literature and analysing data from a number of interviews with the bereaved. Furthermore the supports offered by society, with particular focus on a Melbourne Community Bereavement Follow Up Program, are reviewed. By observing and discussing expressions of grief it was found, although unique and varying, some patterns or common behaviors emerged. Supports and comforts that assisted the bereaved are explored. Issues, including inappropriate comments and problems with bureaucratic departments, are also developed and discussed. There is an emphasis placed upon the need of health care staff and the community in general to increase their understanding of the grief process and bereavement support, so as to enhance care and practice when working with people who have suffered loss.
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Reis, Ashley E. "With the Earth in Mind: Ecological Grief in the Contemporary American Novel." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849760/.
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"With the Earth in Mind" responds to some of the most cutting-edge research in the field of ecocriticism, which centers on ecological loss and the grief that ensues. Ecocritics argue that ecological objects of loss abound--for instance, species are disappearing and landscapes are becoming increasingly compromised--and yet, such loss is often deemed "ungrievable." While humans regularly grieve human losses, we understand very little about how to genuinely grieve the loss of nonhuman being, natural environments, and ecological processes. My dissertation calls attention to our society's tendency to participate in superficial nature-nostalgia, rather than active and engaged environmental mourning, and ultimately activism. Herein, I investigate how an array of postwar and contemporary American novels represent a complex relationship between environmental degradation and mental illness. Literature, I suggest, is crucial to investigations of this problem because it can reveal the human consequences of ecological loss in a way that is unavailable to political, philosophical, scientific, and even psychological discourse.
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Schoka, Elaine. "The Relationship Between the Grief Process and the Family System: The Role of Affect, Communication, and Cohesion." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279027/.
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Sixty-six people who had recently experienced the death of a parent or a spouse completed a questionnaire packet to assess their current grief symptomatology and some characteristics of the relationships within their family. Participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire 4-5 weeks after the death and then again six months later. The present study compared two competing models to explain whether the grief process affects the characteristics of relationships within the family system or that family characteristics affect the experienced grief symptoms.
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Hale, David. "Death and commemoration in late medieval Wales." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2018. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/death-and-commemoration-in-late-medieval-wales(7d14b42e-a69b-4968-9398-aad3b96748e0).html.
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This study examines the attitudes to, and commemoration of, death in Wales in the period between the end of the thirteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth century by analysis of the poetical work produced during this period. In so doing, this is placed in the wider context of death and commemoration in Europe. Although there are a number of memorial tombs and some evidence of religious visual art in Wales which has survived from the late medieval period, in comparison with that to be found in many other European countries, this is often neither so commonplace nor so imposing. However, the poetry produced during this period very much reflects the visual material that was produced in other parts of Europe. The poetry shows that the Welsh gentry at that time were familiar with many of the themes surrounding death and commemoration so obvious in European visual art such as the macabre and the fate of both the body and the soul after death. With war, famine and disease being so commonplace during the Middle Ages, and the late medieval period witnessing the effects of the Black Death, it is, perhaps, little wonder that macabre imagery and concerns about the fate of the soul were so often produced in European visual art of the time. These concerns are reflected in the Welsh poetry of the period with several poets composing quite vivid poetry describing the fate of the body as a decomposing corpse after death or allusions to the personification of Death appearing to claim its victims. The tension that many felt between the role of God on Judgement Day and God as Redeemer is also apparent in a number of the poems composed at this time. This study shows how important the role of the poet was amongst the gentry in Wales during the late medieval period, a role which ensured that the patrons of the poets were immortalised in words rather than by physical memorials. It also highlights the importance of poetical works of the period as an important primary source for historical research. Many of the poems give a contemporaneous account of important events of the period such as symptoms of plague victims which confirm that the Black Death was indeed the bubonic form of the plague.
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Rider, Jan K. (Jan Kathleen). "Ambiguity of Loss, Anticipatory Grief, and Boundary Ambiguity in Caregiver Spouses and Parents." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278288/.
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The purpose of the present cross-sectional study was to examine the effects of ambiguity of loss and type of caregiver-to-patient relationship on anticipatory grief, negative physical and psychological outcomes associated with grief, and boundary ambiguity in family caregivers of chronically ill patients. Questionnaires were completed by 23 parents of ill children and 30 spouses of ill mates. Using an original and a revised concept for level of ambiguity, partial support was found for the prediction that parents and spouses in high ambiguity of loss circumstances would report more anticipatory grief than those in low ambiguity ones. Contrary to prediction, a slight but nonsignificant trend occurred for parents and spouses in low ambiguity situations to report more negative physical and psychological effects associated with grief as well. Level of ambiguity was not found to impact boundary ambiguity as had been hypothesized. Spouses reported more boundary ambiguity than parents, regardless of level of ambiguity of the loss. Contrary to prediction that parents would report less anticipatory grief and more negative physical and psychological outcomes than spouses, generally, no significant differences were found between the two groups. However, using the original concept of ambiguity, parents did tend to recall more past grief than spouses. The study highlighted several methodological concerns which impact research on loss and grief, particularly the difficulty involved in recruiting participants with subsequent occurrence of sampling bias, rudimentary status of available measurement tools, and a host of potentially confounding personal and sociodemographic variables. The present study supports a view of the loss which occurs in families dealing with chronic illness as a complex process whose impact on grief, distress, and family upheaval is influenced by multiple factors. Such factors include both the ambiguity of the loss and the type of family relationship involved. Complex research of a longitudinal nature using psychosocial models of illness is needed to better delineate the impact of factors such as these.
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Haag, Marcy J. "A study of continuing bonds and their impact on life attitudes in parents of murdered children." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5225/.
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For most of the past century, the positive outcome of grief in the West was characterized as the relinquishment of the bond to the deceased. Phrases such as "let go", "move on", and "get over it" were, and continue to be, common to the language of this pursuit. This 'breaking bonds' perspective does not take into account other means of grief resolution, nor does it consider historical or cultural findings. Consequently, reports of bereaved parents who indicate resolution of grief yet maintain a continued relationship with their deceased child were not given much attention until the 1990s. This research employed a Durkheimian approach, taking the social bond as the starting point of inquiry and examined continuing bonds of parents to their murdered children. How these bonds were related to the parents' attitudes of re-investing in life and their level of grief was measured. The relationship between the parents' level of grief and their life attitudes was also assessed. The sample consisted of 46 parents living in North Texas whose child had been murdered three or more years ago. A triangulated methodology was utilized and the data were collected by means of participant observation, unstructured interviews, and a mailed questionnaire which obtained information on continuing bonds, level of grief, life attitudes and demographic variables. Multiple regression techniques were utilized to analyze the quantitative data. Parents on the Continuing Bonds Scale reported high levels of bonds with their deceased child. Contrary to expectation, the level of continuing bonds parents maintained with their children was found to be independent of other variables in the study. The relationship between parents' level of grief and their life attitudes was inverse in that higher levels of grief were associated with lower levels of re-investing in life. The finding of the independence of the Continuing Bonds Scale indicates the parent's level of grief and life attitudes are not related to continuing bonds; the bonds exist regardless. The relationship between level of grief and life attitudes points to a crisis of meaning.
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Griff, Sergej [Verfasser]. "Histopathologische Aspekte der Kryobiopsie der Lunge : Einfluss der Art der Materialgewinnung auf die Diagnosefindung in der Lungenpathologie / Sergej Griff." Berlin : Medizinische Fakultät Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1189138832/34.
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Salerno, Stephanie. "True Loves, Dark Nights: Queer Performativity and Grieving Through Music in the Work of Rufus Wainwright." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1476645017261653.
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