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Baked beans for bereavement

open access: yes, 2012
My primary goal in conducting the research was to investigate and hypothesise about the relationships and patterns involved in childhood bereavement. Methodologically, I applied a combined process, to view both the data and my work with bereaved children.
Draper, Ana
core   +1 more source

Modelling Suicide‐Related Communication Dynamics: A Socio‐Cybernetic Framework for Governance

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Suicide‐related phenomena (SPS) are often approached through individual‐level risk factors or moral framings, yet their population‐level dynamics depend critically on how ‘suicide’ becomes observable, circulates and is governed across functionally differentiated systems.
Enrique Fernández Vilas, Juan R. Coca
wiley   +1 more source

Continuing Bond as a Double-Edged Sword in Bereavement?

open access: yes, 2018
Continuing bonds (CB) with the deceased are considered to be natural and may be adaptive in the grieving process (Klass, Silverman, & Nickman, 1996).
Chow, AYM, Fong, HC
core   +1 more source

Identity Impermanence as a Generic Social Process: The Malleability of Gender in Transgender and Nonbinary People's Lives

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Drawing on 40 in‐depth interviews with transgender and nonbinary people, we found that respondents' gender identities or displays shifted day‐by‐day and audience‐by‐audience. The first describes respondents shifting their identities and displays based on feeling their way through gender while the latter describes feeling out an audience.
Stef M. Shuster, Andrew Kirks‐Cler
wiley   +1 more source

Organ and tissue donation: Exploring the needs of families

open access: yes, 2003
Relatives of potential organ donors are the most critical link in maintaining organ availability, as they must express their lack of objection before organ retrieval may take place. The often sudden and unexpected nature of the death of a potential organ
Payne, S.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Identity Entanglement: Rethinking Marginality through the Intersectional, Liminal, and Antithetical

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
While identity research has given sustained attention to marginality, intersectionality, and the effects of power on identity, the formal interactional dynamics through which identities are constituted remain limited. I present identity entanglement as a useful framework for better understanding and articulating the relational complexities of identity.
Jules Vivid
wiley   +1 more source

Nursing in the presence of grief: Nurses’ experiences supporting caregivers before and after death in hospital settings

open access: yesPalliative Care and Social Practice
Background Supporting caregivers before and after patients’ death is a core component of palliative care, yet bereavement support in hospitals settings often remain inconsistent and fragmented. Although nurses frequently interact with bereaved caregivers
Trine-Lise Eknes, May Aasebø Hauken
doaj   +1 more source

When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A study of bereavement in the Abrahamic faiths [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In the UK approximately 60% of deaths occur in acute hospital settings to people from different cultures and religions. This thesis explored the experiences of bereaved relatives from the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths, doctors, nurses, healthcare ...
Chaplin, Dawn Alison
core   +2 more sources

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