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Anticipatory Grief: A Psychosocial Concept Reconsidered
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1980SummaryFormerly anticipatory grief was viewed as a potential coping mechanism for a prospective loss. More recently it has been studied in preventive psychiatry as a determinant of the severity of post-mortem grief. The authors in a critical analysis of methodological and theoretical inconsistencies recommend a reconsideration of the concept within a ...
R, Fulton, D J, Gottesman
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The use of guided imagery with anticipatory grief
Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional, 1996The number of patients and families experiencing the phenomena of anticipatory grief is exploding as the incidence of AIDS increases and the use of life-extending medical technology becomes commonplace. Home care and hospice nurses, most often the healthcare professionals in constant daily contact with dying patients and their loved ones, must identify
B, Turkoski, B, Lance
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Anticipatory grief: a theoretical challenge
Palliative Medicine, 1994The theories of loss and grief described by Freud and Bowlby have provided considerable interest in anticipatory grief. Anticipatory grief is assumed to be akin to post-death grief, but commencing prior to the loss of the loved one. 'Grief work' completed during the anticipatory period is purported to mitigate against abnormal grief reactions after ...
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Hospice Journal, The, 1991
Factor analysis of an Anticipatory Grief Inventory composed of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors believed to be associated with anticipatory grief, completed by 159 male and female spouses of deceased cancer patients within three months of their loss yielded three interpretable factors: Conjugal Coping, Anticipatory Grief, and Cognitive Coping.
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Factor analysis of an Anticipatory Grief Inventory composed of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors believed to be associated with anticipatory grief, completed by 159 male and female spouses of deceased cancer patients within three months of their loss yielded three interpretable factors: Conjugal Coping, Anticipatory Grief, and Cognitive Coping.
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Anticipatory grief work with children
British Journal of Community Health Nursing, 1996This paper discusses the work undertaken with children who have a significant person in their family in the final stages of a life threatening illness. The paediatric nurse works alongside members of both the primary health care team and the educational team in helping the family to prepare the child through the various stages of illness and ...
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Anticipatory grief and dementia
2009This paper explores anticipatory grief as the experience of adult children caring for parents with Alzheimer’s, multi-infarct, and Parkinson’s dementias. Interviews were conducted with 10 daughters and two sons whose parents had been institutionalized in a special care unit of a long-term care facility.
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Anticipatory grief: The search for destiny
Pastoral Psychology, 1994This paper explores the dynamics between a woman dying of cancer, the man she lived with for 37 years, and the clinician who worked with them during the final months of the woman's life. Psychoanalytic perspectives on transformational and transitional object-seeking as natural processes which aid the internalization of attachment to the one who is ...
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Bereavement and the elderly: anticipatory grief
2012The purpose of this study was to determine if the anticipation of the spouse's death would assist in the bereavement process and adaptation to the loss. Those who anticipated the loss were compared to those who did not with regards to the adaptation to the loss at three time periods, 3 weeks and 1 and 2 years after the death of the spouse.
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