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This qualitative study describes the meaning of the experience of loss for four child participants following the death of a grandparent. Using both descriptiveexploratory methodology and human becoming theory as the framework, the findings are presented in three themes. Related to meaning of the experience of loss, the theme in the children's language is, sadness deepens with awareness of the permanence of death. Related to how relationships unfold following the loss of a grandparent the theme is, time spent doing things and with others provides memories. The final theme is related to hopes and desires the children had following the death of their grandparent, that theme is wishes to undo the past mingle with ongoing relating with one who has died. Practice implications and directions for further research are discussed in light of study findings.

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Thesis (MCS) -- AUT University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (vi, 43 leaves : col. ill. ; 30 cm + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.)) in the City Campus Theses Collection (T 155.937 MCK)

Diss. Malmö : Malmö högskola, 2007.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2002. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-146). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Socionomer är en av de yrkesgrupper som ständigt möter människor som upplevt olika typer av förluster däribland personer som förlorat en närstående. Genom förändringen i DSM-5, där man tagit bort exklusionskriteriumet för sorg efterlyser man nu socionomers syn på fördelarna och nackdelarna. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur en grupp kuratorer ser på vad sorg kan vara i relation till vad egentlig depression kan vara, utifrån debatten kring borttagandet av exklusionskriteriumet okomplicerad sorg i DSM-5. En kvalitativ studie genomfördes där fenomenologisk metod användes vid datainsamlingen. Fem stycken intervjuer utfördes med socionomer som arbetar som kuratorer på olika hälsocentraler i Norrbottens läns landsting. För att analysera insamlade data användes Giorgios fenomenologiska analysmetod. Slutsatserna i denna studie var att sorg beskrivs av kuratorerna som en naturlig känsla, reaktion och process som är individuell och inte har någon begränsning i tid men är övergående. Depression beskrivs som en orkeslöshet, trötthet, nedstämdhet och förlust av livsglädje som är mer konstant medan den pågår. Bedömningen av vad som är sorg och vad som är depression görs enligt kuratorerna utifrån vad personen berättar. De intervjuade kuratorerna tror att förändringen i DSM-5 inte kommer att leda till någon förändring vad gäller deras arbete i praktiken.

Bereavement in the literature has been discussed mainly in terms of the bereaved. This is in spite of research indicating that the widowed considered their experiences prior to bereavement as being more stressful than being recently bereaved (Vachon, 1988). Furthermore, although the benefits to relatives of terminally ill patients from expressing their emotions before or after bereavement have been emphasised, the possible harmful effects of such grief responses have seldom been examined. Similarly, the positive and negative effects of controlling grief feelings have been relatively unexplored. In this study both the controlling and expressing of grief feelings were studied in relatives who were coping with a loved one who had terminal cancer. Forty relatives were interviewed from the local hospices in Kingston, Jamaica and an additional 40 from the continuing care-unit in Aberdeen, Scotland. The relatives were interviewed by the investigator who used a semi-structured interview format to obtain self-reports on their health, coping strategies, grief reactions, availability of social support and so on. Fifty per cent of the sample were also reassessed 4-6 weeks following the patient's death. Both non-parametric and parametric statistics were used to analyse the data. The results indicated that mode of expression was related to coping with an imminent loss but the outcome of grief expression differed depending on the cultural and social norms of the individual. In addition, an ethno-focal model on grief which was developed for the present investigation, and which emphasised the socio-cultural beliefs of the subjects in the study, was proven to be effective in predicting the health effects of relatives of patients. The investigator concludes that cultural differences in grief experiences are not fictitious. A number of suggestions are made for practitioners, especially those within a hospice setting, for health professionals in general who work in a multi-racial or multi-ethnic society, and for future research on the parallels of different kinds of loss experiences.

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Thesis (MGeront)--University of South Australia, 1999