Thesis (M.A.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-112).

Thesis (M.A.)--Cincinnati Christian Seminary, 1987. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-58).

This research study sought to respond to the question; what is the meaning of the experience of the companion to a grieving person? This was accomplished through using a phenomenological method of research. The researcher was guided by dramatic form in creating a common story of the experience and its structural meanings. This study included three co-researchers, who were selected on the basis that they had each been a companion to a mother who had grieved the loss of her child through death. The co-researchers were Interviewed and asked to give detailed descriptions of their experience, which were taperecorded and transcribed, and the transcripts or protocols were analyzed by the researcher. A Phenomenological protocol analysis was used to extract meaning units and common themes from the three protocols. The themes were woven into an integrated narrative description, which was condensed into the essential structure or meaning of the experience. At each stage of the analysis, the researcher and co-researchers cooperated so that all the results were validated by the final interview. The results of the study included a list of twenty-four themes, a narrative description of the experience being investigated, and the essential structure, which presented the meaning of the experience as concisely as possible. It was posited in the discussion that the study had particular implications for practice. / Education, Faculty of / Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of / Graduate

Thesis (D. Min.)--Temple Baptist Seminary, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-164).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Temple Baptist Seminary, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliography (leaves 161-164).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Temple Baptist Seminary, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-164).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Temple Baptist Seminary, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-164).

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Concordia Seminary, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 168-184).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Columbia Biblical Seminary and Graduate School of Missions, Columbia, S.C., 1992. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 154-159).