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2. A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Managing Grief Experienced by Bereaved Spouses or Partners of Adults Who Had Received Palliative Care.
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Jones, K., Methley, A., Boyle, G., Garcia, R., and Vseteckova, J.
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GRIEF ,PSYCHOLOGY information storage & retrieval systems ,CINAHL database ,NURSING databases ,MEDICAL information storage & retrieval systems ,SOCIAL support ,SYSTEMATIC reviews ,SPOUSES ,TREATMENT effectiveness ,ACCEPTANCE & commitment therapy ,PSYCHOLOGY of caregivers ,MEDLINE ,EMOTIONS ,BEREAVEMENT ,PALLIATIVE treatment ,AMED (Information retrieval system) ,GREY literature ,PSYCHOLOGICAL distress - Abstract
This systematic review investigated the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for managing grief experienced by bereaved spouses or partners of adults who had received palliative care. Systematic searches were undertaken on seven bibliographic databases and grey literature was also searched. The review was informed by the use of the PICO framework and PRISMA-P guidelines. Initially 30 relevant papers were identified, but only two international studies met the criteria for inclusion. One was a qualitative, doctoral study using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis; the other, a randomized controlled trial comparing ACT with usual psychosocial support. These studies showed some evidence of benefit for bereaved individuals, particularly by promoting the acceptance of troubling emotions. However, this type of therapy may be more effective in reducing psychological distress rather than grief. Further research is needed into the value of ACT in addressing grief following bereavement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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3. Political Grief.
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Harris, Darcy
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GRIEF ,PRACTICAL politics ,SOCIAL theory ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) ,PUBLIC administration ,PSYCHOLOGY ,GROUP identity ,EXPERIENCE ,GOVERNMENT policy ,THEORY ,SOCIAL classes ,DEATH - Abstract
Grief is usually understood as the personal response to loss. Thus, there is a tendency to consider grief as an individual experience, most typically related to the death of a loved one. However, recent research and theory have provided a much more complex picture of grief as a broad, interdimensional experience that can be both generated and experienced at micro, mezzo, and macro levels. In this context, consideration is given to grief that occurs as a result of events that take place at the sociopolitical level, which can be experienced both individually and collectively. Collective grief may occur when the loss relates to a group where commonly shared assumptions are shattered. The concept of political grief can be seen as a poignant sense of assault to the assumptive world of those who struggle with the ideology and practices of their governing bodies and those who hold political power. Likewise, political grief would also include the direct losses that are experienced by individuals as a result of political policies, ideologies, and oppression enacted and/or empowered at the sociopolitical levels. Different theoretical perspectives, such as the cultural backlash theory, the role of economic inequality within significant sectors, and predictions of the response to threat by terror management theory may help to understand the rise of governments that increase divisions and the sense of loss experienced by large groups within their jurisdiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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4. A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Managing Grief Experienced by Bereaved Spouses or Partners of Adults Who Had Received Palliative Care
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Abigail Methley, Kerry Jones, Rebecca Garcia, Jitka Vseteckova, and Geraldine Boyle
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050103 clinical psychology ,Health (social science) ,Psychotherapist ,Palliative care ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Acceptance and commitment therapy ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Grief ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Psychology ,media_common - Abstract
This systematic review investigated the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for managing grief experienced by bereaved spouses or partners of adults who had received palliative care. Systematic searches were undertaken on seven bibliographic databases and grey literature was also searched. The review was informed by the use of the PICO framework and PRISMA-P guidelines. Initially 30 relevant papers were identified, but only two international studies met the criteria for inclusion. One was a qualitative, doctoral study using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis; the other, a randomized controlled trial comparing ACT with usual psychosocial support. These studies showed some evidence of benefit for bereaved individuals, particularly by promoting the acceptance of troubling emotions. However, this type of therapy may be more effective in reducing psychological distress rather than grief. Further research is needed into the value of ACT in addressing grief following bereavement.
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- 2021
5. COVID-19: In the Eyes of a Filipino Child
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Ann Marie Albano Baradi, Josephine Dionela Agapito, M. Bernadette C. Guzman, Clarissa Mariano Ligon, Lourdes Urbano Agbing, and Arsenia Tuazon Lozano
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050103 clinical psychology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,Health (social science) ,Sociology and Political Science ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,050109 social psychology ,Feeling ,Pandemic ,medicine ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Psychiatry ,Psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Objectives explore thoughts and feelings of children on COVID-19, find out how they cope, and what they did during lockdown. It was total lockdown in Luzon, Philippines, April 2020 – when survey was conducted; pre-tested open-end questionnaire was administered to children who answered either by paper and pen, or through social media, with parents’ cooperation. Participants 200 boys and girls, 6-12 years old, public and private schools in NCR-Luzon. Results Participants heard COVID-19, pandemic and lock down from media and family; described as deadly, dangerous, contagious, world-wide, death-causing virus; about 90% expressed sadness, fear, boredom, anger, disappointments and difficult time; employed self-enhanced coping mechanisms, and engaged in hobbies and interests to assuage thoughts and feelings; family appeared as saving grace. Recommendations: develop strategies to assist children during critical events; studies – find out effects of pandemic on participants’ health; visit participants after two years to find out reminiscence of pandemic experience.
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- 2020
6. "We Wanted to Include Him": Personhood in One Hispanic Family's Experience of the Genetic Illness and Loss of Their Son.
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Blake, Deborah D.
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CHILD death ,PSYCHOLOGY ,THEORY of knowledge ,THOUGHT & thinking ,SYMPTOMS ,COMPREHENSION ,EMPATHY - Abstract
This article draws from an ethnographic study to examine the understanding of personhood that emerges as a Hispanic family from Southern Colorado responds to the diagnosis, illness, and loss of a child with a severe genetic disorder. The focus of this article is on the cultural/religious ethos that shaped this family's resistance to the ideologies and practices that threatened to define their son by his genetic disorder and to diminish his value as a person. The case study exemplifies, and is consistent with, other families in the larger study. The concept of personhood that emerges stands in sharp contrast to, and as a critique of, the ideologies and practices of "geneticization" that define and diminish the value of a person with a genetic disorder. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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7. Mourning the Loss of a Pet
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Stephen R. Pratt
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Health (social science) ,Psychotherapist ,Pet therapy ,Sociology and Political Science ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Animal welfare ,medicine ,Animal-assisted therapy ,HUBzero ,Psychology ,Human animal bond - Abstract
In this paper the author explores the process of mourning as experienced by bereaved pet owners. Losing a pet is an agonizing experience. It was expected that the process of mourning for a pet loss would be similar to the process associated with the loss of a human. Data were collected by viewing postings on the alt.support.grief.pet-loss newsgroup. Those who suffered the loss of a pet expressed qualities associated with Parks' (1987) four-phased process of mourning. Two serendipitous findings were the role of guilt and the strong belief in an afterlife for the pet.
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- 1998
8. Symptomatology and Management of Acute Grief
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Erich Lindemann
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Health (social science) ,Social Psychology ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Population ,Anticipatory grief ,Grief reactions ,Cross-cultural psychology ,Traumatic grief ,medicine ,Psychogenic disease ,Distressing ,education ,Psychiatry ,Applied Psychology ,media_common ,education.field_of_study ,Religious studies ,Disenfranchised grief ,Special Interest Group ,humanities ,Social relation ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Grief ,Psychology ,Clinical psychology ,Disaster Victims - Abstract
At first glance, acute grief would not seem to be a medical or psychiatric disorder in the strict sense of the word but rather a normal reaction to a distressing situation. However, the understanding of reactions to traumatic experiences whether or not they represent clear-cut neuroses has become of ever-increasing importance to the psychiatrist. Bereavement or the sudden cessation of social interaction seems to be of special interest because it is often cited among the alleged psychogenic factors in psychosomatic disorders. The enormous increase in grief reactions due to war casualties, furthermore, demands an evaluation of their probable effect on the mental and physical health of our population. The points to be made in this paper are as follows: i. Acute grief is a definite syndrome with psychological and somatic symptomatology. 2. This syndrome may appear immediately after a crisis; it may be delayed; it may be exaggerated or apparently al)sent. 3. In place of the typical syndrome there may appear distorted pictures, each of which represents one special aspect of the grief syndrome. 4. By appropriate techniques these distorted pictures can be successfully transformed into a normal grief reaction with resolution. Our observations comprise tot patients. Included are (i) psychoneurotic patients who lost a relative during the course of treatment, (2) relatives of patients who uied in the hospital, (3) bereaved disaster victims (Cocoanut Grove Fire) and their close relatives, ( ) relatives of members of the armed forces.
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- 1991
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