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1	A cybernetic approach to grief : an application of the cybernetic paradigm in the field of parental loss of a child Cheadle, Josephine Cornelia 01 1900 (has links) This study sets out to demonstrate the usefulness of cybernetic description for grief therapy, specifically the field parental loss of a child. This paradigm was used to facilitate an alternate mode of conceptualisation, one engendering a more encompassing, aesthetic view. The following core cybernetic concepts were used: punctuation, complementarity, pattern and metapattern forming the framework of cybernetic description as applied. A literature study attempting to merge the gestalt of cybernetic description with that of bereavement theory, specifically that pertaining to the parental loss of a child, is presented. A single case study is described illustrating how cybernetic description is applied to the grief narrative. Arising out of this, the implications of cybernetic description for the field of grief and social work in general are outlined. / Social Work / M.A. (Social Science (Mental Health)) Cybernetic conceptualisation Cybernetics Aesthetic paradigm Complementarity Punctuation Patterns Levels of reality Stability and change Parental loss of a child Grief process Narrative 155.937 Grief Cybernetics Children -- Death Bereavement -- Psychological aspects
2	A cybernetic approach to grief : an application of the cybernetic paradigm in the field of parental loss of a child Cheadle, Josephine Cornelia 01 1900 (has links) This study sets out to demonstrate the usefulness of cybernetic description for grief therapy, specifically the field parental loss of a child. This paradigm was used to facilitate an alternate mode of conceptualisation, one engendering a more encompassing, aesthetic view. The following core cybernetic concepts were used: punctuation, complementarity, pattern and metapattern forming the framework of cybernetic description as applied. A literature study attempting to merge the gestalt of cybernetic description with that of bereavement theory, specifically that pertaining to the parental loss of a child, is presented. A single case study is described illustrating how cybernetic description is applied to the grief narrative. Arising out of this, the implications of cybernetic description for the field of grief and social work in general are outlined. / Social Work / M.A. (Social Science (Mental Health)) Cybernetic conceptualisation Cybernetics Aesthetic paradigm Complementarity Punctuation Patterns Levels of reality Stability and change Parental loss of a child Grief process Narrative 155.937 Grief Cybernetics Children -- Death Bereavement -- Psychological aspects

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A cybernetic approach to grief : an application of the cybernetic paradigm in the field of parental loss of a child

A cybernetic approach to grief : an application of the cybernetic paradigm in the field of parental loss of a child