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Bennett, Debora Lynn. "Grandparent grief." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ55269.pdf.
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Blache, Amy. "Good Grief /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1402170391&sid=12&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Moore, Karla. "Phantom grief the grief of siblings separated by adoption /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1609286761&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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McGee, Harry H. "Living through grief." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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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.<br>Department of Art
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Roulette, Mary. "The Grief Bearers." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1492086599791465.
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Styczen, Myriam. "L'acte faisant grief." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, 2025. http://www.theses.fr/2025ASSA0005.
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Expression employée par le juge administratif, l’acte faisant grief est une notion familière caractérisant l’acte susceptible de recours. Pourtant, les dispositions réglementaires et législatives, régissant l’accès au prétoire, ne prévoient nullement une telle notion. Le discours doctrinal s’avère, en outre, hétérogène et contingent. Le choix a donc été fait de proposer une définition, à partir d’une analyse tant historique que positiviste. L’acte faisant grief est l’acte susceptible de produire des effets suffisants, c’est-à-dire graves et immédiats, justifiant l’ouverture du recours à son encontre. Il poursuit, en tant que condition de recevabilité, une finalité résolument objective visant à réguler l’accès au prétoire et délimiter l’office du juge administratif. Mais les évolutions du contentieux administratif permettent de révéler une utilité renouvelée d’une telle notion, pourtant, résolument classique. En effet, la règle de la décision préalable, axiome intangible du contentieux administratif, est désormais remise en cause par l’admission des recours exercés contre des actes non décisoires au motif qu’ils font grief. Le grief se révèle le véritable critère de recevabilité. La mise en lumière de l’utilité contentieuse du grief s’accompagne de la compréhension qu’elle autorise du phénomène juridique et normatif. L’acte faisant grief met en évidence que l’acte administratif unilatéral ne se réduit aucunement à la décision administrative. En considérant que l’acte fait grief lorsqu’il déploie des effets, le juge invite à renouveler les approches classiques de la normativité, indissociables de la notion d’obligation. L’ouverture du recours contre les actes non décisoires révélerait alors une nouvelle conception prétorienne de la normativité, plus réaliste, mais encore incertaine, fondée sur la modification effective des situations ou des comportements<br>The term used by the administrative judge is a common term for an act that may be appealed. Yet the statutory and legislative provisions governing access to the court do not provide for such a concept. The doctrinal discourse is, moreover, heterogeneous and contingent. The choice was therefore made to propose a definition, based on an analysis that is both historical and positivist. The act causing damage is an act capable of producing sufficient effects, that is to say serious and immediate, justifying the opening of proceedings against it. It pursues a resolutely objective aim of regulating access to the court and delimiting the office of administrative judge. But the developments in administrative litigation reveal a renewed usefulness of such a notion, yet resolutely classical. The rule of prior decision, an intangible axiom of administrative litigation, is now called into question by the admission of appeals against acts which are not decisive on the ground that they cause harm. The grievance is the real admissibility test. The highlighting of the contentious utility of the grievance is accompanied by the understanding it allows of the legal and normative phenomenon. The act causing the injury shows that the unilateral administrative action is not in any way reduced to an administrative decision. Considering that the act causing injury, when it has effects, the judge invites to renew the approaches of normativity, inseparable from the notion of obligation. The opening of the appeal against non-decision-making acts would reveal a new pretorian conception of normativity, more realistic and based on the effective modification of rules of law or behaviour
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Lankford, Megan. "Nature and grief : an ecocritical analysis of grief in children's literature." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23715.
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This study explores the role of nature in three picture books that broach the topics of death, grief, depression, or loss: Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen’s Lifetimes, Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree, and Roni Schotter and Kimberly Bulcken Root’s In the Piney Woods. Using a close reading of both the text and the visual images, these picture books are analyzed for their use of nature in discussing the concepts of death, regeneration, life, and the life cycle. The three texts reflect two primary historical trends of ecocriticism that of nature-as-space and nature-as-knowledge as exemplified by writers in the Romantic era, the American pastoral, and the Victorian period. Through a further examination of the text and image relationship within the text, the texts are then analyzed for their effectiveness and accessibility to children within the practice of bibliotherapy.
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Abson, Jeanne Anne. "Grief following brain injury : a validation of the Brain Injury Grief Inventory." Thesis, Bangor University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409238.
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Wavrunek, Joel B. "The child's journey through grief a grief support group developed for children /." Online version, 1998. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1998/1998wavrunekj.pdf.
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Jones, Helen Crispus. "Understanding grief following stillbirth." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.606407.
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Stillbirth is a unique and complex bereavement for parents, with the potential to cause considerable psychological distress, and often characterised by feelings of worthlessness and isolation. Despite dramatic changes to the provision of care practices and interventions to support parents over recent decades, there is limited theoretical or clinical evidence to inform psychological understanding and interventions for grief and distress following stillbirth. A systematic review of quantitative studies aimed to explore the effect of interventions designed to reduce parental distress following stillbirth. Twenty-two studies met inclusion criteria. Tentative support was found for providing mementoes of the baby and information regarding aetiology, support group attendance, and cognitive behavioural interventions for parents with clinical levels of distress. Contradictory findings for the impact of contact with the baby prevent clear conclusions regarding the effect of this practice. However, substantial methodological weaknesses were identified in the reviewed literature, and the current evidence base is not considered able to reliably inform care practices and intervention approaches, with further high quality research evidence needed. The second, empirical paper aimed to assess the application of the cognitive behavioural model of complicated grief to women bereaved by stillbirth. A cross-sectional survey design explored the predictive value of cognitive behavioural variables for explaining variance in grief, both independently and after controlling for demographic, obstetric and loss-related factors. Seventy-eight women bereaved by stillbirth within the preceding two years took part. Negative thoughts about the self, threatening interpretations of grief reactions and depressive avoidance strategies significantly predicted higher grief scores, accounting for 81 % of score variance and all remained significant predictors after controlling for relevant demographic, obstetric and loss-related variables. Findings support the application of the cognitive behavioural model of complicated grief to women bereaved by stillbirth.
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Feng, Martha. "The Grace of Grief." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10255963.
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<p> This hermeneutic dissertation examines clinical and theoretical materials from depth psychology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, religion, and literature to understand the role of literal and symbolic death among key thinkers in depth psychology, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and James Hillman. Beginning with the Freud-Jung separation, then moving into the postmodern era with the arrival of James Hillman’s archetypal psychology, it explores the collective wound that informed the development of linear models to address grief, as well as minimal education and sparse clinical training on the intricate facets of grief. Although the experience of grief and the manner in which one grieves may be unique to the individual, they are influenced by relational, cultural, and spiritual beliefs. Technological advances have increased exposure to global incidences of death and grief, but this has not led to a reduction in denial and avoidance: they remain prominent Western defenses. Therefore, paradigm shifts that include new approaches to grieving which honor the individual and collective soul, interdisciplinary dialogue, and an ongoing relationship with the dead are essential to humanity and our well-being. </p><p> <i>Keywords</i>: Grief; bereavement; postmodern mourning; Freud/Jung/Hillman; spirituality; aesthetic; depth psychology; hermeneutic.</p>
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Sumner, Elizabeth Wong. "Grief and Healing Sanctuary." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30907.
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My thesis is an exploration of the emotional connection we have with architecture.
The inspirations for the Grief and Healing Sanctuary were the healing experienced at quiet spaces of reflection and my fatherâ s stories as a Navy Vietnam shipboard combat veteran.
I designed a building to provide a place for healing and to deal with grief. The building was designed for patients and their families being treated at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Not all families leave as they arrive. The families, many from out of town, need a place to reflect, pray, cry, or laugh.
This need was reinforced by my fatherâ s stories of his transition from normal life to the extremes of combat to life back as a civilian. No one comes out unaffected, and there is not always a place to go and reflect.
The Grief and Healing Sanctuary provides these spaces for all people who have these needs.<br>Master of Architecture
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Massoni, Sheila. "Morgan : writing through grief /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
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Stickley, Patrick R. "Grief in the Iliad." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/205.
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This paper addresses the causes and effects of grief within Homer's Iliad. In addition, this paper argues that error, both committed and suffered, is the primary cause of grief, and that grief is particularly transformative in regard to Achilles, both in his motivations and his physicality.
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Boggs, Teresa. "Parent Grief and Autism." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1520.
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Lang, Kenneth. "Helping Churches Respond To Their Members In Grief By Providing A Grief Recovery Seminar." Thesis, Biola University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557239.
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<p> The loss of a loved one is a challenging event in the lives of everyone. Each individual must deal with grief and grief recovery. The Western culture has difficulty in dealing with loss and grief. In addition, churches are inadequate in helping their members who are in grief: helping them recover, find meaning, and have an enduring connection with their loved one as they embark on a new life. </p><p> In order to determine if churches can be equipped to provide support during the grief recovery process, this research project focused on training members of Calvary Chapel of Syracuse in the process of grief and grief recovery. The seminar was based on two things. First, a comprehensive review of the Bible was completed to reveal what it says about death, grief, and comfort. Then, a review of the literature dealing with grief and grief recovery was completed that provided insight into the common experience of those in grief, the process of grief recovery, and how individuals find meaning and embark on a new life without their loved one. </p><p> Using quantitative research methods, this project examined the participants of a grief and grief recovery seminar. The participants completed surveys that were assessed using recognized statistical procedures to determine if a seminar could adequately prepare them to work with individuals in grief. </p><p> The results of this research project provide a way to assess the use of a seminar for equipping church members to work with individuals in grief and recommendations on how this process can be enhanced.</p>
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Gillaspy, Kelley Marie. "Flatlines| A Memoir of Grief." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10643131.
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<p> This dissertation is a hybrid project that includes a critical paper and a collection of creative writing, including poems, a nonfiction piece, several drama pieces, and an erasure project. The critical paper is an analysis of the mental ailments and disassociated discourse of Anton Chekhov’s characters in three of his plays—<i>The Seagull, Uncle Vanya</i>, and <i>The Cherry Orchard</i>. Many of Anton Chekhov’s characters display symptoms of depression, including suicide attempts, and formal thought disorder. The creative section’s drama pieces were loosely influenced by Anton Chekhov’s work, but all of the work completed in the creative section is connected through common themes of mental illness and grief. Many of the poems in this section symbolize grief through the loss of a father. Some of the more grief-stricken moments are symbolically represented through animals, such as the mice in “All Summer.” Later, this same type of grief is transformed in “Flatlines,” the titular work of the dissertation, to a young woman’s reimaging and hallucination of childhood characters brought to life to her by her father’s death. The last work presented in this creative section is the erasure project that blends the poetry with the drama–a stage manager’s notes blacked out, silenced, and relit with a different perspective, but still a connection to the theatre’s space, set, and characters.</p><p>
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Maccallum, Fiona Louise Psychology Faculty of Science UNSW. "Autobiographical memory in complicated grief." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Psychology, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43510.
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Complicated Grief (CG) has been identified as a potential consequence of bereavement that is associated with unique and debilitating outcomes. This thesis investigated autobiographical memory in CG. This program of research focused on the specificity and content of autobiographical memories in the context of CG. Study 1 investigated memory retrieval specificity using a cue word paradigm. Bereaved individuals with CG displayed an overgeneral retrieval style (OGM) compared to bereaved individuals without CG. Study 2 found that CG participants were also less specific in imagining future events in response to positive cues. Further, there was a significant independent relationship between memory retrieval specificity and the specificity of future imaginings. Study 3 investigated the relationship between overgeneral memory and social problem solving. CG participants performed more poorly on this task; however, there was no independent relationship with memory retrieval style. Study 4 investigated the impact of treatment on OGM. Results indicated that as symptoms of CG reduced following treatment, individuals retrieved more specific memories to positive cues. Studies 5-7 examined proposed relationships between self construct and autobiographical remembering in CG, as outlined in Conway and Pleydell-Pearce??s (2000) self memory system model. In Study 5, individuals with CG were more likely than bereaved controls to view their self-identity as being related to the deceased. Study 6 investigated the relationship between self-discrepancy, personal goals and memory content. CG individuals were more likely to recall loss-related memories, and there was a relationship between personal goals and memory content. Study 7 extended examination of these factors to future-related thinking. Finally, the program recognised the importance of investigating the impact of the cognitive strategies that individuals may adopt to manage painful memories. Using an experimental Stroop procedure as a measure of thought accessibility, Study 8 investigated thought suppression in CG. The results suggested that CG individuals experienced greater interference from death-related cues. In summary, these studies highlighted some of the key memory processes that may be involved in the maintenance, and potentially the resolution, of CG.
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Edwards, R. Bruce. "Loss and the grief process." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Formati, Mary Jean. "Grief resolution in the elderly." Scholarly Commons, 1995. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2775.
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Efforts to predict successful grief resolution in adults have suggested that older adults may experience grief differently than younger adults. In addition, age, coping style, perceived control, and a social support system have also been identified as possible mediating factors in grief resolution. This study explored the effect of age, coping style, and perceived control on grief resolution in 48 independent living residents (aged 65-86) of a Northern California community who had experienced the loss of a spouse. All were members of a widowed person's support organization. It was hypothesized that successful grief resolution would be positively related to perceived external control and to an avoidance coping style. Grief resolution was measured by the Grief Resolution Index (Remondet & Hansson, 1987) and the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, 1978). Coping style was measured by the Coping Responses Inventory (Moos, 1993). Perceived control was measured by Rotter Locus of Control Scale (Rotter, 1966). The degree of grief resolution was analyzed using 2 x 2 x 2 (Age x Locus of Control x Coping Style) ANOVA on each measure of grief resolution. The hypotheses were not supported.
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Widerburg, MaryAnn. "This Grief I Cannot Hold." DigitalCommons@USU, 2014. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/3312.
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At seventeen, I lost my fourteen-year old brother in a shooting accident. After hearing the news of my brother’s death, my Great Aunt Mary wrote a letter to my family. The one line I remember was “I’ve heard that it takes three years to heal from the passing of a loved one.” Five years after Jacob’s death, I was once again confronted with losing a brother. Jaxon was born and died within twenty-four hours. I hadn’t yet “healed” from Jacob’s death, and I didn’t know how to do so.
The elusive nature of memory when confronted with personal trauma calls into question issues of identity. Does the previous self still exist after loss? In this memoir I document the impact of tragic grief and how death not only informs how we perceive the future, but how we interpret our past selves. Through the tri-part structure, I experiment with viewpoint, beginning with a first person “I,” struggling to fit my brothers’ deaths into a single narrative line. From here, the narrative shatters as I reflect upon my childhood self with a different lens and the distance of third person--the self being so fractured, there is no “I” left. Finally, the memoir moves to direct address, speaking to Jacob. Jacob is now a “you,” an alive and vibrant presence that becomes a part of the narrator as she explores her grief and begins to piece herself back together. Through this exploration, she discovers that “healing” is complex and that art can both aid in the process and chart the path.
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Salomonson, Robert G. "Synthesizing Theories of Traumatic Grief| Using Applied Theory to Create a New Theory of Grief Shame." Thesis, Capella University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10824247.
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<p> This applied theoretical paper suggests a new theory for shame due to grieving a traumatic loss. Changes in worldview, the undermining of self-efficacies, complex trauma, soul-wounding and the impacts of traumatic memory resulting from grief are explored. Grief shame, as it is proposed, is a result of bereaved victims recognizing through self-labeling that their grief behaviors violate societal feeling rules and expression norms. This provokes social consequences and forms of sanctioning (exclusion) for those demonstrating traumatic grief behaviors; they are perceived to endanger society’s sense of wellbeing, which impedes cultural meaning making. This is noted to occur through differences in the definition of what is considered natural grief that is driven by medicalization of the experience. Being a griever rather than being observed to grieve is the catalyst for the present-day expectations of grief that grief is a something to recuperate from, driving the grief shame experience and the condition for bereaved victimization that there is something wrong with those who grieve beyond standards of grief behavior set by Western society. The shame experience itself may cause the griever to experience an attack on self, which separates shame from guilt, leading to withdraw from the shame influence (society) with soul wounding social/emotional consequence. </p><p>
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Hudgins, Kenna D. "The Effect of Music Therapy on the Grief Process and Group Cohesion of Grief Support Groups." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1181099998.
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Thomas, Samira. "Grief and the curriculum of cosmopolitanism." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62282.
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In this dissertation, grief is explored as a path to enlivening and enacting a curriculum
of cosmopolitanism. Grief in this research is understood as that which presses heavily upon
us, that is, grief is not understood solely as bereavement, but as those experiences that weigh
heavily on our lives. This research contends that it is through attending to the heaviness of
people’s experiences that the relationship between self and other – the foundation of
cosmopolitanism – can become central to curriculum.
This research suggests that the traditional canon of knowledge that schools and
curriculum developers rely on is primarily exclusionary to epistemologies and ontologies of
the nonwhite and female world. As a result, the curriculum reflects only certain student
populations while others are cast aside as ghosts haunting the curriculum. The undervaluing
of certain epistemologies and ontologies in curriculum and society creates space for bigotry
and the caricaturizing of the ghosts of the curriculum. Exploring cosmopolitanism while
casting aside certain kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing perpetuates non-cosmopolitan
realities. For cosmopolitanism to be enacted, it needs to be explored and understood beyond
the traditional canon. This dissertation makes use of autobiography to disrupt the
cosmopolitan canon.
Grief is inherently the endurance of violence, and it is through the Intimate Dialogue,
a method of attending to grief inter-subjectively, that violence can be undone. This is a form
of pacifism that sheds the notion of passivity and becomes an active response to violence.<br>Education, Faculty of<br>Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of<br>Graduate
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Keen, Timothy. "Grief type reaction following head injury." Thesis, Bangor University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296322.
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Findlay, Jules. "Fragmentation : materialising mourning from complicated grief." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2018. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/3465/.
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This research by project is asking whether the affect of embodied materiality can be materialised from complicated grief, in an investigation into the relationship between the affect of grief and the creative, embodied encounters with paper materials. In some types of traumatic loss, complicated grief can subsume the bereaved in a way like no other. Mourning can be a very difficult process. The research integrates creative practice, working with fibre-based materials, with the scholarly and cultural exploration of the literature and theory of mourning as a specific psychological state of mind. It is an exploration of the experience of mourning a complicated grief, through the sustained process of an embodied encounter with the materiality of making paper. Paper becomes the metaphor to discuss research questions that connect the maternal with affect in maternal grief, that paper can be the Symbolic and the body that inputs Cartesian culture is feminised using affect of the embodied encounter with materials. This research is not into art therapy, nor into art as illustrative of psychology. I use a hybrid approach to methodology, involving auto-ethnography and subjective experience as a medium through which to reflect on the relationship between materiality and affect. The substrate uses play; judgment is suspended, whilst the substrate is being handmade to create individual materiality. Culture and social theory, which enabled the methods of auto-ethnography and creative practice research to emerge, is the paradigm of postmodern and post positivist accounts of new relations between ‘subjectivity’ and ‘objectivity’. Moving forward from Glaser and Strauss’s thinking on grounded theory, display, together with reflective practice, is compatible with the emergence of feminist thinking on the significance of subjectivity and affect. The submission comprises a written dissertation, which reflects on the six years of creative practice, making new sense of the conventional silence surrounding complex mourning. The practice itself, connotes affect through the materialities of paper.
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Gonzalez, Daiana A. "Migrating Latinas and the grief process /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1015.pdf.
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Wilson, Baptist Karen. "Memorial landscapes : a phenomenology of grief." Thesis, Edinburgh College of Art, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549154.
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Gonzalez, Daiana Anahir. "Migrating Latinas and the Grief Process." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2005. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/760.
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This qualitative study examines the migratory experience of immigrant Latina married women. It looks at their experience from both an individual and a systemic perspective. It compares their experience to that of grief due to bereavement using Parkes' theory of the grief process. This research also presents findings as to the effects of migration on the marital system. Analysis of interview data provided by 12 Latin American women who resided in the United States ranging from 2 years to 10 years, allowed a comparison between the experience of these women and the grief process theory. The findings of the study indicate that although there are some slight differences between grieving a deceased person and grieving the loss of a country, the similarities predominate. The data gathered was divided into the categories of initial mixed-emotions, searching, anger, disorganization and despair, recovery. Furthermore, the impact of immigration on the marital dyad was analyzed. The interviewees reported an increase in marital argument during the first stages of immigration with a tendency to decrease as time lapses. Overall, the interviewees identified their marital relationship as being stronger than prior to coming to the United States.
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Meade, Kelly Diane. "Transcending culture the universality of grief : a project based upon an independent investigation /." Click here for text online. Smith College School for Social Work website, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/1000.
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Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2007<br>Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Social Work. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-67).
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McSpedden, Margaret. "Perinatal grief: complicated or what? an analysis of the symptoms of perinatal grief in two samples of bereaved mothers in Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12217.
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Background: Perinatal grief, which affects parents whose babies die during pregnancy or within a year after birth, has been shown to lead to severe morbidity and, in some cases, mortality. Despite the assertion that all these parents are susceptible to developing complicated grief because of the nature of their loss, there has been little evidence to support this. However, some variables which may predict the likelihood of these bereaved mothers having unremitting, intense grief have previously been identified, including: maternal age, education, marital status, occupational status, other losses and the presence of living children. Objective: The present studies assessed perinatal grief and the impact of these variables on the risk of developing complicated grief using self-reported data in two separate samples of perinatally bereaved mothers (N = 121) and (N = 146) up to five years after their loss. In Study 2 other psychopathological symptoms, including: depression, anxiety, stress and post-traumatic stress were also assessed. Results: Contrary to expectations, findings indicated that the proportion of these mothers who experienced complicated grief, 12.5% in Study 1 and 18% in Study 2, was similar to other populations of grievers. In both studies those variables that had been suggested as indicative of higher risk for developing psychopathology were not supported except for the absence/presence of other children. Conclusion: Perinatally bereaved mothers report clinically significant symptoms of complicated grief as well as other psychopathology such as depression, anxiety, stress and post-traumatic stress at levels similar to other populations of grievers. The symptomology of these mothers should be routinely monitored to assess need for referral for treatment when indicated. Limitations, such as the convenience samples of participants and strengths, such as, quantitative design of the study, are addressed and implications are outlined.
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Reimer, Jennifer E. "College Students’ Disenfranchised Grief Following a Breakup: The Effect of Relationship Closeness and Perceived Stigma on Grief." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2019. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1994.
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Grief is a universal reaction to loss. Losses are often associated to the death of a loved one, however, they may also originate from the end of an intimate partner relationship. Whereas studies have focused on grief after a divorce or on symptomology students endure after a death, this article attends to the understudied college student experience of grief following a breakup. Within emerging adulthood, the loss of a close romantic relationship may be challenging to navigate alongside the daily stressors of college. Stigmatization by means of social cues convey sentiments, such as the need to get over an ex-partner, which in turn can lead to disenfranchised grief where individuals do not feel heard, accepted, or valid in their experience of grief. It was hypothesized that as endorsed closeness of the past relationship increases so does grief intensity, and that as feelings of stigmatization increase also increases grief intensity. Multiple regression models supported the main effects, although the interaction effect between levels of closeness and perceived stigmatization was not supported. Implications and future directions are discussed.
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White, James Greely. "Grieve, but not without hope a review of resources that have proved helpful during my journey through loss and grief /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p062-0293.
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Miller, David Graeme. "Investigation of the concept of traumatic grief in the bereavement and grief of people with a learning disability." Thesis, University of Hull, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272040.
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Barth, Jamin. "Essential and beneficial elements of school based intervention programs for grieving students." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001barth.pdf.
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Drenth, Cornelia Maria. "Complicated grief in the South African context : a therapeutic intervention programme / Cornelia Maria (Nelia) Drenth." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2623.
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Yildirim, Sehnaz. "Parental Grief Reactions After An Infant Death." Master's thesis, METU, 2002. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/1008614/index.pdf.
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The aim of the present study was to examine whether there was a significant difference within each spouse&<br>#8217<br>s reports on grief reactions after an infant death. It was also aimed to investigate whether demographic variables including gender, age, education of grieved parents, gender and age of deceased infant, presence of other children were predictors of parental grief reactions after an infant death. The sample of the present study consisted of 55 couples experiencing an infant death within the last 2 years. Sample was recruited through death records kept in hospital and municipalities of Ankara by the researcher. To test the hypotheses of the study paired samples t-test and stepwise regression analyses were performed. According to the results of the study, it was found that there was a significant difference within each spouse&<br>#8217<br>s reports on despair, panic behavior, blame and anger, detachment, and disorganization as separate dimensions of grief. Mothers experienced higher levels of despair, panic behavior, blame and anger, detachment, and disorganization than fathers. There was no significant difference within each spouse&<br>#8217<br>s score on personal growth. It was found that being a mother and having lost boy infant were proved as the predictors of parents&<br>#8217<br>higher levels of grief reactions. Age and education of grieved parents, age of deceased infant, presence of other children were not associated with parental grief reactions. It was found that younger age of deceased infant and presence of other children were proved as predictors of grieved parents&<br>#8217<br>higher levels of personal growth. The findings of the study were discussed with related literature.
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Booth, Laura M. L. "Counterfactual thinking and guilt in parental grief." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq39175.pdf.
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Kenney, James Scott. "Coping with grief, survivors of murder victims." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0028/NQ50994.pdf.
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Kenney, James Scott. "Coping with grief : survivors of murder victims /." *McMaster only, 1998.
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Coetzer, Bernardus Rudolf. "Grief and self-awareness following brain injury." Thesis, Bangor University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391435.
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Hawkes, Percy. "Complicated Grief and Melancholia| Identity-Questioning Issues." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10076222.
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<p> Through hermeneutic and heuristic research this thesis looks at melancholia or complicated grief with the contributing factor of identity questioning. From a depth psychological perspective, normal grief is differentiated from melancholia or complicated grief, which involves the unconscious. This exploration employs the theory of Allan Hugh Cole Jr., whose work on melancholia draws on that of Donald Capps, Erik Erikson, and Sigmund Freud. A disposition to melancholia, particularly in men, comes from the first abandonment by a primary parent, resulting in identity loss and resistance to resolution of grief. Factors such as trauma, sexual orientation, religion, or marginalized race can have exacerbating effect on melancholia and were found to have treatment implications. Ritual, art, play, humor, and dreams can be identity-conferring and restorative resources. The author proposes that melancholia with identity issues should be understood as a psychological problem that is distinct from, although it can prolong and complicate, grief.</p>
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Herbert, Camilla. "Grief and loss following traumatic brain injury." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1998. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10277/.
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Literature Review: The literature review summarises the main theoretical models of grief and illustrates how these have developed from intra- to inter-personal models and from clinical to psychosocial models of bereavement. The paper explores the concepts of pathological, anticipatory, and disenfranchised grief, and attempts to identify aspects that are relevant to grief in contexts other than bereavement. Finally an attempt is made to integrate themes from the literature that are applicable to the experience of loss amongst relatives of traumatically brain-injured patients. Some useful concepts are identified, but there is not yet an adequate description in the literature of the characteristics and time course of the experience of grief in this population. Research Paper: - This research paper seeks to contribute to our understanding of grief and loss in the relatives of brain injured people. The study investigated the utility of a modified form of the Inventory of Complicated Grief as an appropriate measure of grief, and explored the hypothesis that unresolved grief was associated with poor family adjustment following traumatic brain injury. The study found that the Inventory of Complicated Grief had potential to be a useful assessment tool, with some further modifications, but in this small study, it was not possible to identify a component of grief distinct from anxiety and depression that predicted family adjustment. Critical Appraisal: - The process of identifying and carrying out the research study is discussed. The direction of the study was influenced both by clinical questions and practical issues. Factors that assisted the process or made it more difficult are described. Finally, consideration is given to the question of future research in the light of the experience of carrying out this particular project.
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Robinaugh, Donald J., Christine Mauro, Eric Bui, Lauren Stone, Riva Shah, Yuanjia Wang, Natalia A. Skritskaya, et al. "Yearning and Its Measurement in Complicated Grief." TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/620910.
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Persistent intense yearning for the deceased is a core clinical feature of complicated grief (CG) that distinguishes it from other mental disorders that develop following loss. The Yearning in Situations of Loss Scale (YSL) is a recently developed assessment of yearning. To assess the psychometric properties of the YSL in those with CG, we administered the YSL, Inventory of Complicated Grief, and Quick Inventory of Depression Symptomatology to 303 treatment-seeking bereaved adults with CG. Our results suggest the YSL is a reliable assessment with acceptable convergent and discriminant validity as a measure of yearning in those with CG.
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Jolley, Jennifer L. "All Grief Empty, The Clear Night Passes." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242510142.
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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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Jahnke, Edward J. "A grief ministry program for the parish." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Yıldırım, Şehnaz. "Parental grief reactions after an infant death." Ankara : METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1008614/index.pdf.
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Brooks, Pribac Teja. "Animal Grief and Spirituality: Cross-Species Perspectives." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20097.
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This thesis joins a vibrant interdisciplinary conversation about animal subjectivity. Specifically, it addresses the question of whether nonhuman animals possess capacities for a human-comparable feeling of grief and spiritual experience. Historically, a substantial amount of philosophical discourse, particularly in the Western tradition, has centred on attempts to articulate a framework of defining features that would capture the presumably distinct nature of the human. Grief and spirituality have jealously been guarded as such uniquely human attributes, and despite nonhuman animal grief, as of late, having been admitted into scholarly discourse, the potency of the feeling fails to be recognised as equal to human grief. This thesis examines the discourse on grief and spirituality, identifying conceptual and methodological approaches that have contributed to the prejudice against nonhuman animals. By exploring the underlying commonalities that enable the experience of grief and spirituality in both human and nonhuman animals, the research finds that experiential diversity likely manifests on an individual rather than on a species level. A vast and growing body of knowledge concerning attachment and loss, and the shaping of animals’ (human inclusive) experiential realities more broadly, elucidates the role of the implicit forces at work for the emergence of grief and spirituality. Simultaneously it evidences that a human-comparable interpretative dimension, while it may colour the experience in distinct ways, is not necessary to experience both phenomena deeply. In both academic and popular discussion, in fact, considerations of grief and spirituality in nonhuman animals continue to be tainted by anthropocentric philosophical questions, failing to recognise the significance of the more fundamental psycho-biological processes at the root of these experiences. A more integrative approach, as presented in this thesis, offers a stronger theoretical base for the consideration of grief and spirituality across species with ensuing ethical implications for human treatment of other animals and the developing of scholarship.