Health care professionals experience grief when caring for children with life-threatening conditions. Harriet Lane Compassionate Care, the pediatric palliative care program of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, created an action plan to support health care professionals; one intervention-- the bereavement debriefing session - was specifically aimed at providing emotional support and increasin...

Teaching loss, grief, and bereavement to nursing students should be an interactive process to stimulate critical thinking and address the affective domain of learning. Lecture as a teaching methodology may be the easiest to prepare and deliver; however, used alone, it is ineffective in identifying perceptions, fears, and issues related to dying and death. Personal and professional experiences o...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the nature and extent of bereavement problems in HIV + ve clients and the counselling input required. DESIGN Ninety individuals referred consecutively for counselling by the medical teams after HIV diagnoses were included in the study. Specific bereavement data was gathered by each counsellor according to schedule and semi-structured interviews f...

This study discusses the bereavement of Amir, main character The Kite Runner, and analyzes defense mechanisms projected toward bereavement. uses a psychological approach to identify analyze Amir�s mechanisms. qualitative descriptive nature this allows data be presented in form texts or descriptions. Data were mined from novel through character�s feelings, thoughts, dialogues. analysis shows tha...

There are pitfalls in the singular application of western categories in diagnosing psychiatric disorders and distress among refugees. Based on my research with Cambodian refugees I argue that cultural bereavement, by mapping the subjective experience of refugees, gives meaning to the refugee's distress, clarifies the 'structure' of the person's reactions to loss, frames psychiatric disorder in ...

Societal expectations of grief impact the experience of bereavement. The congruence of societal expectations with current scientific understanding of grief is unknown. Therefore two qualitative studies explored community perceptions of grief. In study one, three small focus groups (N = 9) examined grief-related expectations associated with hypothetical scenarios of bereavement. In study two, th...

ABSTRACT This article addresses the question of whether certain experiences that originate in causes other than bereavement are properly termed ‘grief’. To do so, we focus on widespread grief have been reported during Covid-19 pandemic. We consider two potential objections to a more permissive use term: (i) is, by definition, response death; (ii) is subject norms apply only case bereavement. Ha...