Grieving those Who Still Live: Loss Experienced by Parents of Transgender Children

Comparison of emotional intelligence and adaptability, in students who have kindergarten experienced and those who have not experienced

Purpose: The purpose of current study is to compare the emotional intelligence and adaptation of pre-school students who have experienced kindergarten with those who have not experienced it. The study population includes all junior high school students of Robat Karim, Tehran. The present study sample was stratified random sampling method and was randomized equally disproportionate between  stud...

Parents grieving the loss of their child: interdependence in coping.

OBJECTIVES A longitudinal study was conducted among bereaved parents, to examine the relationship between parents' own and their partners' ways of coping in terms of the constructs loss-orientation and restoration-orientation (coping strategies based on the bereavement-specific Dual Process Model (Stroebe & Schut, 1999)), and psychological adjustment following the death of their child. METHOD...

‘The children of those who died of kuru are today still alive’

I was approximately 12 years old living in Agakamatasa village when Dr Carleton Gajdusek came and stayed with us in the village. I was selected by Carleton among other boys to help him take photographs of the village and the people. We toured other provinces and visited Lae, Madang, Rabaul, Hoskins, Chimbu and Mt Hagen in search of kuru disease but we found nothing. We settled down in South For...

Who Wants to Live Forever? Living, Dying and Grieving in Our Digital Society

Almost ubiquitous hardware technology, such as smart phones, ensures that social networking sites are part of users’ everyday norms and routines. However, some are now using these new communication technologies to deal with the issues of death, dying and grief. With the hope of being able to create digital memories to leave behind for future generations, the opportunity to “live on” and become ...

Checking on those who care for children.