Examples of grief

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Factors affecting grief reactions in close family members to individuals who have died of cancer.
Chapter 2 covers grief reactions and the author presents guidance to supporting people with both ' normal ' and ' abnormal ' reactions.
He felt angry and grief-stricken that he had no control over his life and present situation.
They said that if someone built a house on a gold vein, his house would always attract sickness and grief.
The staff is involved with her, and their grief and guilt are easily imagined but not definitive.
The authors arbitrarily decided that a score of 0 to 1 denoted resolved grief, while a score of 6 or more indicated unresolved grief.
Following is the stage of depression, characterized by extreme anxiety, grief, and depression.
Overall he finds change in expressive styles but continuity in the depth of grief.
The fewer forms of expressing grief a community has, the freer but also the more helpless the grieving person is in dealing with loss.
Our objective was to compare the efficacy of a novel approach, complicated grief treatment, with a standard psychotherapy interpersonal psychotherapy!.
Despite the risk for complicated grief and for bereaved children developing major psychiatric disorders, referrals for mental health services were not routinely offered.
The natures of traditionally evolving ' scripts ' for grief, he contends, depend upon whether formality or informality, and expressiveness or reserve, are socially valued.
Understanding excitement, grief/sadness/frustration, and fear of the subject were extremely common, with most outcomes resulting in the subject comforting the object of distress.
The conversation consisted of dialogues about the patient's death, the spouse's health, grief reactions, socioeconomic situation, exercise and lifestyle, and occurrence of postbereavement hallucinations.
At 13 months the women's grief reaction was again stronger.
Sum variables were formed of the variables in the grief reactions checklist, and interactions between them and respondents' background data were sought.
Nonetheless, anticipatory grief did not lessen the shock for these widows.
Parkes somewhat disingenuously dismisses much of this debate, claiming that concepts such as ' phases of grief ' have been misunderstood and misinterpreted as rigid and fixed.
Is it offset by the prospect of promoting the love and sparing the grief of a greater number of parents?
There is no evidence that early terminations enable women to feel less grief, but equally there is no evidence to say that they are harmful.
As the authors remark, however, one can certainly imagine scenarios where human cloning would provide a means of assuaging grief, without any great ethical problems.
Teaching euthanasia: the integration of the practice of euthanasia into the grief, death, and dying curricula of postgraduate family medicine training.
A prospective study of risk factors predicting grief intensity following pregnancy loss.
She was ' the light and joy of our lives ' and her death caused ' some weeks of uncomforted grief ' before any solace was found in faith.%!
The book concludes with a return to social constructions and how grief is perceived within this construct.
The meaning of this word ranges from 'grief ' to 'sin, evil'.
The wounded actor actually needs to feel his own personal grief, unfettered by the creative filters of a class or rehearsal.
The last five years have seen significant advances in our understanding of grief in older people.
The authors suggested that this subgroup were experiencing what is commonly termed 'chronic' or 'persistent' grief.
Until now, relatively few studies have studied grief specifically in an older population.
Treatments for grief are discussed in a separate section of this article.
No firm recommendations could be made after the analysis of the trials of bereavement support groups and grief counselling.
Prolonged grief did not relate to poorer outcome, because the treatment also targeted grief symptoms, whenever necessary.
Considering depression scores as an indirect measure of grief, we drew a preliminary conclusion that stronger feelings of grief are related to greater memory decline.
Family grief therapy : a preliminary account of a new model to promote healthy family functioning during palliative care and bereavement.
Beginning counselors' death concerns and empathic responses to client situations involving death and grief.
A necessary part of turning grief into social action is the creation of a coherent grief narrative-first personal and then political.
Grief can, under the best circumstances, change who we are, how we live, and even the social conditions in which we live.
Rather than experiencing end points to grief, people who grieve are always making new adaptations and changes in relation to the dead.
The open-ended questions about background data and grief were formulated for this study.
Nonetheless, the amount of grief that oncology staff holds is underestimated and underappreciated, and support services merit additional study.
Intervention is more effective for those with more complicated forms of grief.
Grief symptoms decreased significantly at followup for group participants.
Women tend to score higher on anxiety, depression, and probably grief.
However, men participants and controls both experienced reductions of grief, suggesting men improve even without intervention.
We hypothesized that scores for grief would lie within the normal range cited for bereaved individuals and would decrease during the assessment period.
Parents were asked whether, and to what extent, they had worked through their grief.
The five grief indicators achieved their respective maximum values in the sequence (disbelief, yearning, anger, depression, and acceptance) predicted by the stage theory of grief.
I saw some, with naturally elevated tendencies and good feelings, kept down amongst sordid privations and harassing griefs.
His decision will no doubt cause a certain amount of grief.
Emotions like love and grief have particular objects.
Laughter follows grief just as spring, with the bud of the tree, follows winter.
Where this was reached, the person would have shown at least three of the central features of grief, and several of the other characteristic reactions.
To achieve this, a criterion for the grief reaction was derived.
The second measure consisted of estimating the numbers in the sample that clearly showed a grief-life response.
Therefore, the grief index is independently related to anxiety and depression on the one hand and to the work measures on the other.
They constitute a form of construct validity for the overall grief index.
A content analysis was carried out on the transcriptions, to establish a coding manual, which described the types of answers which defined each grief item.
The lurching nausea his earlier stories taunted you into was replaced with the deep, sick shock of grief: the loss of a child.
The competition with cotton in the clothing market caused great grief to the industry, which ended up specialising in certain niches, particularly bedding and table-cloths.
Stories told in pictures, which use colour and mime to enhance communication about feelings of grief, can be used both individually and in groups.
Interestingly, earlier grief-specific symptoms is a better predictor of later depression than earlier depression is of later griefspecific symptoms.
The nonsignificant correlations for affect tone with grief-specific symptoms call into question whether it plays a role in bereavement-related adjustment.
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