Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02682621.2019.1587234
J. Jones
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02682621.2019.1587231
Judy Debenham
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02682621.2019.1587850
C. Valentine
The focus on meaning-making in loss (Neimeyer, 2001) reflects increasing use of qualitative methods to study how individuals and groups experience bereavement. Adopting a relativist, constructivist ontology, a qualitative lens foregrounds the variety of ways people interpret and find meaning within the everyday flow of events, speech and behaviour, or discursive activity, through which we define and structure our social reality (Berger & Luckman, 1967). In analysing qualitative data we come to appreciate the complex relationship between individual and social processes, the human capacity for agency in difficult situations, and how we act on the basis of meaning (Strauss & Corbin, 1998, p. 9). This approach represents a shift from meaning-making based on internal, psychological compulsion to meaning as socially and culturally shaped. The analytic task then becomes one of discovering the ‘strange’ in the familiar to gain an appreciation of how ‘common sense’ experiences are not as self-evident as they may seem, but have been shaped by cultural meaning systems. While providing a methodological lens to study how individuals engage with specific types of loss, meaningmaking in bereavement is also a topic of investigation, which has been theorised as central to grieving (Neimeyer 2001; Park, 2010). For example, Niemeyer’s ‘meaningreconstruction’, or the attempt to reaffirm a world of meaning threatened by loss, includes sense-making, benefit finding and identity change (Gillies & Neimeyer, 2006). Park’s meaning-making model describes how meaning is lost, searched for and found, the outcome being meanings made. This model has sought to bridge the gap between a more ‘global sense of meaning’ in life and a ‘situational sense of meaning’ disrupted by loss. Further, given meaningmaking’s socio-cultural shaping, its study in diverse contexts can illuminate different cultural responses to contemporary societal conditions and the issues these raise for the experience of death and loss. Yet, the focus on cultural diversity both within and between cultures has been limited, definitions of meaning-making in bereavement tending to uncritically assume mainstream western perspectives. Of the relatively few studies showing cultural sensitivity I review three, which capture the complex interplay of situational and global, micro and macro, individual and cultural dimensions to extend our understanding of meaning-making in loss.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02682621.2018.1542571
Cori Bussolari, Janice M Habarth, Rachel Katz, S. Phillips, B. Carmack, W. Packman
Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore and assess bereaved companion animal (CA) owners’ (N = 672) responses to a question about the decision to euthanize their animal. Content analysis revealed four major themes: grief without guilt (73%); euthanasia as appropriate decision, accompanied by guilt and/or ambivalence (22%); sole expression of guilt (6%); and veterinarian collaboration with decision (32%). Results suggest that most believe they made the right decision even though they experienced extremely high levels of grief. A smaller percentage of respondents were distraught with guilt, expressing low self-compassion, religious beliefs, and broken trust. Our findings corroborate the important relationship between veterinary staff and CA owners. Mental health clinicians, veterinarian, veterinary medical personnel should provide support and comfort to clients, especially when discussing and deciding upon euthanasia.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02682621.2018.1535873
C. Valentine
This article reports on a small, qualitative, in-house pilot case study on student bereavement support at one UK university, where I work. The study’s aim was to examine how bereaved students are s...
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02682621.2018.1539312
Jacqueline K. Krychiw, R. James, Erin F. Ward-Ciesielski
Abstract Previous research has shown that bereavement following the loss of a loved one can often produce a variety of physical and psychological effects for the individuals left behind. Specifically, the suddenness and violence of a death may be particularly important determinants of subsequent negative psychological functioning. The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the grief experiences of individuals bereaved by different causes of death, specifically focusing on the suddenness of the death. Adult participants completed an online survey including demographic questions and psychological measures. The results suggest that individuals who lost someone to a sudden death reported more negative outcomes and impairment than individuals who lost someone to a more expected death. These results suggest that the cause and circumstances surrounding the death may play an important role in an individual’s grief and bereavement experiences.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02682621.2018.1539304
R. Tucker
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02682621.2018.1539299
K. Reed, E. Whitby, Julie Ellis
Arts-based activities are often incorporated into grief therapy interventions and clinical application of art therapy techniques with the bereaved has been widely documented (Bolton 2008, McGuinness and Finucane 2011, Weiskittle and Gramling 2018). In this short article we seek to contribute to this body of work by exploring the valuable role that public art exhibitions can play in bereavement support focusing on our recent exhibition Remembering Baby. This exhibition sensitively explores what happens when a baby dies, from both parent and professional perspectives. Drawing on visual images from the exhibition and anonymised testimonials from visitors, this paper focuses on exploring the role of the public exhibition as a mechanism through which to challenge silences surrounding baby-loss, and also act as a source of bereavement support. In sharing some of the thinking behind our work we seek to highlight the benefits of taking a collaborative and participatory approach to exhibition curation, focusing on the benefits of involving members of the baby-loss community in the creation of artwork.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02682621.2018.1535882
D. Davidson
My first encounter with the experience of sibling loss was with a nurse administrator in a neonatal unit that I was interviewing for my dissertation on grief and bereavement. While examining the emergence of hospital protocols for perinatal loss, wondering why a particular set of individuals broke with standard practice to encourage interaction with dying and dead infants, I noted that these individuals had ‘sentinel experiences’, or specific experiences that allowed them to be more sensitive to the needs of grieving parents (Davidson, 2007). Asking her about why she fought so hard to establish compassionate protocols, this participant responded by saying:
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