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Overcoming the social stigma of losing a pet: Considerations for counseling professionals

Human-Animal Interactions, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals found themselves spending more time with their pets and relied on them to maintain normalcy and provide security during isolation.
Michelle Kay Crossley, Colleen Rolland
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Supporting bereavement and complicated grief in primary care: a realist review

BJGP Open, 2021
Background: Bereavement can have significant impacts on physical and mental health, and a minority of people experience complicated and prolonged grief responses.
Caroline Pearce, Geoff Wong, Isla Kuhn, Stephen Barclay   +3 more
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Are Methodist Church bereavement ritual’s sufficient for its black African members?: A qualitative analysis of a church in Mamelodi, South Africa [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021
A phenomenon is observed during bereavement amongst the Methodists residing in Mamelodi, Pretoria. Families often seek the churches to be involved, and this normally entails offering pastoral care and leading Christian bereavement rituals. Ironically and
Rev. Jacob Mokhutso
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The Course of Symptoms in the First 27 Months Following Bereavement: A Latent Trajectory Analysis of Prolonged Grief, Posttraumatic Stress, and Depression

Psychiatry Research, 2022
Background: Much remains unknown about the course of grief in the early months following bereavement, including the prevalence and timing of a recovery trajectory, whether specific symptoms mark a failure to recover, and the co-occurrence of chronic ...
A. Djelantik, D. Robinaugh, P. Boelen
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Creating a bereavement memorial protocol using art therapy: Reflecting on two case studies

South African Journal of Arts Therapies, 2023
Art therapy in South Africa has focused on counselling and grief work but not on modelling a persistent complex bereavement memorial protocol as a viable alternative to traditional bereavement counselling. This article addresses this gap in practice and
Sandra Greeff
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‘A silent epidemic of grief’: a survey of bereavement care provision in the UK and Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives To investigate the experiences and views of practitioners in the UK and Ireland concerning changes in bereavement care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design Online survey using a snowball sampling approach.
C. Pearce, J. Honey, Roberta Lovick, Nicola Zapiain Creamer, C. Henry, A. Langford, Mark Stobert, S. Barclay   +7 more
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“Prolonged grief disorder” and “persistent complex bereavement disorder”, but not “complicated grief”, are one and the same diagnostic entity: an analysis of data from the Yale Bereavement Study

World Psychiatry, 2016
Andreas Maercker, Paul A Boelen, Holly G Prigerson   +2 more
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Exploring Functional Impairment in Light of Prolonged Grief Disorder: A Prospective, Population-Based Cohort Study

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
Background: Functional impairment is essential in the diagnostic criteria for prolonged grief disorder (PGD) in the ICD-11. It refers to the negative impact on everyday life, including inability to maintain the usual level of functioning.
Mette Kjaergaard Nielsen, Mette Kjaergaard Nielsen, Kaj Sparle Christensen, Kaj Sparle Christensen, Mette Asbjoern Neergaard, Pernille Envold Bidstrup, Pernille Envold Bidstrup, Mai-Britt Guldin, Mai-Britt Guldin   +8 more
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Tracking the reach of COVID-19 kin loss with a bereavement multiplier applied to the United States

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
Significance COVID-19 has created a mortality shock throughout the world, and it may yield a second wave of population health concerns tied to bereavement and social support reductions.
Ashton M. Verdery, E. Smith‐Greenaway, R. Margolis, Jonathan Daw   +3 more
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‘It was brutal. It still is’: a qualitative analysis of the challenges of bereavement during the COVID-19 pandemic reported in two national surveys

medRxiv, 2021
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been a devastating, mass bereavement event characterised by high levels of disruption to end-of-life, grieving and coping processes. Quantitative evidence is emerging on the effects of the pandemic on grief outcomes,
A. Torrens-Burton, S. Goss, E. Sutton, Kali Barawi, M. Longo, K. Seddon, E. Carduff, D. Farnell, A. Nelson, A. Byrne, Rhiannon Phillips, L. Selman, E. Harrop   +12 more
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