Grief and Loss in an Age of Global Trauma: Protest and Despair Versus Attachment and Reorganization

2012 ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Kay Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Grief And Loss

Helping Kids Grow Through Grief and Loss

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Hastings
Keyword(s):  
Grief And Loss

Red Eyes

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-293
Author(s):  
Jasmine Thombs
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Alliance ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Maternal Deprivation ◽  
Severe Reaction ◽  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Internal Working Model ◽  
Internal Working ◽  
Threatening Condition ◽  
Sight Loss ◽  
Red Eyes

This vignette illustrates how an individual with a complex pathology can present with a sight-threatening condition that appears to resist medical treatment in some measure if the psychological component is ignored. The case exemplifies the way in which therapeutic intervention can help in the recovery from a sightthreatening condition and from the underlying trauma associated with it. It is recognised that people affected by sight-threatening conditions will understandably experience very strong and at times overwhelming feelings related to grief and loss. In this case, the possibility of sight loss created a severe reaction of panic and confusion, and disrupted cognitive functions. These problems were often compounded by symptoms including anger, disassociation, apathy, and depression. This vignette showed how Bowlby's concepts of attachment and loss, and maternal deprivation, helped in the therapeutic alliance. The understanding of the client's internal working model was fundamental to the ongoing therapeutic process that allowed her to heal.

Counselling Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities: The Use of Narrative Therapy

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Wark
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Narrative Therapy ◽  
Goal Attainment ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Severe Intellectual Disability ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

This article uses a descriptive case study design to examine the potential of narrative therapy as a direct intervention for adults with moderate-to-severe intellectual disabilities, autism and/or severe communication limitations. Archival clinical data on four individuals who received a form of social constructionist narrative therapy are examined for goal attainment. The data were analysed qualitatively with specific input from individuals, their families and carers. Findings indicate improvements in quality of life through reductions in situational and environmental anxieties, and in coping with grief and loss. The results suggest that narrative therapy techniques can be beneficial in assisting individuals with severe intellectual disability to achieve meaningful and persistent improvements in their life.

Lesbian Grief and Loss Issues in the Coming Out Process

1992 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 175-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Grief And Loss

Grief and Loss

2015 ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Tracey E. Robert ◽  
Virginia A. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Grief And Loss

Kids supporting kids: A 10-week small group curriculum for grief and loss in schools

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-401
Author(s):  
Kathleen S. Tillman ◽  
Michael Prazak
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Grief And Loss

scholarly journals (Im)Perfect memories in Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Magdalena Łapińska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
American Author ◽  
Mourning Process

The article entitled “(Im)Perfect Memories in Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn” explores the fallibility of memory as presented in Another Brooklyn, a novel by an African American author Jacqueline Woodson. The text presents the idea that personal memories change due to the passage of time along with the new experiences of an individual, and relates it to the studied novel. Special attention is given to different dimensions of grief and loss presented in the analyzed story. The mourning after the loss of loved ones is explored through the use of concepts such as Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’ five stages of grief, the selective amnesia and the idea of continuing bonds. The process of growing up is also briefly considered as a mourning process over losing the innocence and safety provided by childhood. Further, the article presents the hardships of growing up without a mother in an unsafe neighbourhood, the loss of vital friendships and the search of a better life - all introduced through the recollections which occurred after a significant passage of time and the accumulation of experiences which lend themselves to the change of the mindset of the main character.

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