Social work contribution to a comprehensive model of mourning: the experience of bereaved families of fire-fighters killed on 9/11/01
| Autor: | Grace H. Christ |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | Progress in Palliative Care. 18:228-236 |
| ISSN: | 1743-291X 0969-9260 |
| DOI: | 10.1179/096992610x12624290277060 |
| Popis: | Recent research on the grief process supports the need to create a comprehensive model of mourning that more fully incorporates reactions to unexpected traumatic losses as well as to expected losses from illness. A more comprehensive model also needs to reflect an understanding not only of adaptation hampered by emotional problems and pathologies but also of resilient adaptation. Lastly, it requires an exploration of extrinsic factors affecting the mourning process as well as intrinsic factors – those that are intrapsychic, psychological, and emotional. Research has generally focused on individual intrinsic factors that affect the mourning experience. This article considers more recently identified extrinsic factors that can temporarily delay even resilient adaptations to the mourning process. It draws on both clinical and research experiences with a long-term (5-year) social work intervention with a cohort of 50 bereaved widows and children of fire-fighters who lost their lives as a result of the... |
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