Artists have long used art as a means for expressing themselves and processing difficult events in their lives. Unfortunately, it has also long been tradition in the American art world that one does not openly speak about those difficult events. As an artist and a bereaved perso…
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Tracy K. Smith's Pulitzer Prize winning collection of poetry, Life on Mars , has been celebrated and analyzed as an elegy to Smith's father by many reviewers and scholars. And while this reading is valid and has been openly endorsed by Smith herself, our understanding of this co…
God Damn is a poetic collection that delves into the complex relationship between a daughter and her father, who has recently suffered from a stroke. As her father grapples with Aphasia, a neurological disorder which has rendered him with a uniquely limited vocabulary, the autho…
Grief responses range from minimal changes in functioning to profound dysfunction, or complicated grief. The purpose of the current study was to clarify the relationship between situational, interpersonal, and intrapersonal risk factors, coping strategies, and grief outcomes (co…
People respond in widely varying ways to the loss of a loved one. Although most people manage the experience of loss without significant disruptions in healthy functioning, others show markedly divergent reactions including chronic grief symptoms and recovery from initial elevat…
Death and grief are a natural part of human development. However, the meaning of death and how individuals react to it is deeply embedded in their cultural norms (Osterweis, Solomon, Green, 1984). Emotional expressions to death have been indicated to be non-universal, and cultur…
Events that could, and often do, crush us psychologically (and/or physically) can also be used for personal transformation and change. There are some individuals who find hope and opportunity in the midst of adversity and use their experience as a catalyst for positive social ch…
The present research study investigates the lived experience of Traumatic Bereavement in order to understand the impact such an experience of trauma and loss has on the bereaved person’s meaningmaking process. The study defined Traumatic Bereavement in a broad sense by including…
This study is the result of observations and questions that stem from my professional role as a senior key worker with families where a child has a life-threatening or life-shortening illness. This project explores the cultures of families where a child has been diagnosed with a…
This study used the assimilation model to elaborate the continuing bonds model of mourning. According to the continuing bonds model of mourning, immigrants dealing with the loss of their native culture incorporate elements of this culture (i.e. their families, friends, identity,…
This project connects this author's personal grief narrative with scholarly literature in order to help church leaders and others in the congregation, as they work with families who are experiencing grief due to the death of a child. This paper begins by defining grief, identify…
Grief has only begun to be researched. A preponderance of existing research has been conducted studying widows and the emotional impact of their grief. Most research on widows has been done with middle age to elder widows. This study considers a sample of young widows between 18…
This explorative study of fifty-nine Asian Indian women assesses the relationship between the clinical symptoms of grief culturally prescribed mourning rituals. Three questionnaires were utilized to collect data: General Information Questionnaire, Grief Experience Inventory (GEI…
Background: Newly admitted college students are subject to a massive input of stresses which require successful and ever-changing coping strategies. An expanding body of literature suggests that inadequate responses to coping with stress in adolescents of college age contributes…
We have previously shown that bereavement life review therapy improves the spiritual well-being of a bereaved family, but the factors that influence the efficacy of this therapy have not been determined. Therefore, this study was performed to identify factors associated with imp…
This dissertation is concerned with the question of whether nations grieve, whether the behaviour they exhibit in the wake of loss can be said to constitute grief. Initially exploring the concepts of both grief and nation in order to establish the feasibility of national grief a…
Grief is universal, yet how people grieve is not the same. The purpose of this ministry project is to design and implement a Christ-centered, longstanding grief support group for the congregation of the Omega Baptist Church in East Cleveland, Ohio. The Old and New Testaments rec…
Christ Fellowship Palm Beach Gardens, Florida is experiencing rapid growth. Consequently, its grieving population has also grown. Although Christ Fellowship offers sporadic programs to support the grieving, there is a need to improve its “grief ministry.” It is fundamental to fa…
This phenomenological survey explored how professional artists navigated personal loss experiences that were a result of the death of a loved one. Although artists have worked within themes of death throughout history, most studies on art and bereavement to date have focused on …