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Battle Kiana - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Grief and Loss: Shedding Light on Our Youth
Digital Commons@Georgia Southern, 2020Co-Authors: Battle KianaAbstract:Highlight the importance of trauma- informed practice for youth impacted by Grief and loss. Highlight the intricate stages of adolescences and the impact Grief and loss has on this stage of development. Highlight the importance of Grief Counseling groups for adolescents in public schools
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Grief& At-Risk Behaviors: Through the eyes of a teen
Digital Commons@Georgia Southern, 2018Co-Authors: Battle KianaAbstract:This presentation will explore the affects that Grief has on adolescents, including at–risk behaviors, identity confusion, issues of self-worth, and many more. The presentation will illustrate the positive impact that Grief Counseling groups have among adolescents (with a special focus in the public school environment). Barriers that hinder the effective delivery of group Counseling within the public school arena will also be addressed (such barriers are amount of time in the school day, student caseload, and administrative support). This presentation will also address the critical role that school social workers play, in effectively providing group Counseling interventions to adolescents who are affected by Grief and loss
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Grief & At-Risk Behavior: A Look at the Effectiveness of Grief Counseling Groups for Adolescents in Public Schools
Digital Commons@Georgia Southern, 2017Co-Authors: Battle KianaAbstract:This presentation will explore the affects that Grief has on adolescents, including at–risk behaviors, identity confusion, issues of self-worth, and many more. The presentation will illustrate the positive impact that Grief Counseling groups have among adolescents (with a special focus in the public school environment). Barriers that hinder the effective delivery of group Counseling within the public school arena will also be addressed (such barriers are amount of time in the school day, student caseload, and administrative support). This presentation will also address the critical role that school social workers play, in effectively providing group Counseling interventions to adolescents who are affected by Grief and loss. Recognizing the impact that loss has on adolescents, it is critical that adolescents be provided with interventions that can help them appropriately cope with their Grief. Although Counseling resources are often available for adults, fewer resources are available for grieving adolescents, who often must grieve alone or with limited support (Slyter, 2012). Grief Counseling groups are positive interventions that can assist adolescents in developing healthier coping skills. These skills can empower them to process their Grief in a positive way. Groups can provide an environment that promotes resilience which acts as a protective factor against the physical, emotional, social, and cognitive Grief responses of adolescents
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Grief & At-Risk Behavior: A look at the effectiveness of Grief Counseling groups for adolescents in public schools
Digital Commons@Georgia Southern, 2016Co-Authors: Battle KianaAbstract:This presentation will explore the affects that Grief has on adolescents, including at–risk behaviors, identity confusion, issues of self-worth, and many more. The presentation will illustrate the positive impact that Grief Counseling groups have among adolescents (with a special focus in the public school environment). Barriers that hinder the effective delivery of group Counseling within the public school arena will also be addressed (such barriers are amount of time in the school day, student caseload, and administrative support). This presentation will also address the critical role that school social workers play, in effectively providing group Counseling interventions to adolescents who are affected by Grief and loss
Louis A. Gamino - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Death Competence: An Ethical Imperative.
Death Studies, 2012Co-Authors: Louis A. Gamino, R. Hal RitterAbstract:The authors argued that death competence, defined as specialized skill in tolerating and managing clients’ problems related to dying, death, and bereavement, is a necessary prerequisite for ethical practice in Grief Counseling. A selected review of the literature tracing the underpinnings of this concept reveals how a robust construct of death competence evolved. Using the vehicle of a case study, the authors analyzed an example of empathic failure resulting from an apparent lack of death competence on the part of a mental health provider to illustrate the importance of this characteristic in delivering clinically effective and ethically sensitive Grief Counseling.
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who needs Grief Counseling a report from the scott white Grief study
Omega-journal of Death and Dying, 2010Co-Authors: Louis A. Gamino, Kenneth W. Sewell, Nancy S. Hogan, Saundra L. MasonAbstract:Cluster analysis was performed on a diverse group of 69 non-clinical grievers whose loved ones died between 12–40 months prior to the study. Based on psychometric measures of both bereavement distress and growth, three distinct clusters emerged: High Grief (high distress—low growth; n = 16); High Growth (low distress—high growth; n = 32); and Low Impact (low distress—low growth; n = 21). Discriminant function analyses showed that the High Grief cluster differed robustly from the other two groups on several measures of Grief adaptation and coping; the differences between the High Growth and Low Impact clusters were less pronounced. High Grief participants sought Grief Counseling significantly more often whereas the Low Impact grievers preferred medicinal help for symptoms if they sought any professional assistance at all. When High Growth participants sought Counseling, they seemed to focus on growth-oriented dimensions rather than mere symptom relief. Of the 11 participants who sought Grief Counseling for...
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Who needs Grief Counseling? A report from the Scott & White Grief Study.
Omega-journal of Death and Dying, 2010Co-Authors: Louis A. Gamino, Kenneth W. Sewell, Nancy S. Hogan, Saundra L. MasonAbstract:Cluster analysis was performed on a diverse group of 69 non-clinical grievers whose loved ones died between 12–40 months prior to the study. Based on psychometric measures of both bereavement distress and growth, three distinct clusters emerged: High Grief (high distress—low growth; n = 16); High Growth (low distress—high growth; n = 32); and Low Impact (low distress—low growth; n = 21). Discriminant function analyses showed that the High Grief cluster differed robustly from the other two groups on several measures of Grief adaptation and coping; the differences between the High Growth and Low Impact clusters were less pronounced. High Grief participants sought Grief Counseling significantly more often whereas the Low Impact grievers preferred medicinal help for symptoms if they sought any professional assistance at all. When High Growth participants sought Counseling, they seemed to focus on growth-oriented dimensions rather than mere symptom relief. Of the 11 participants who sought Grief Counseling for...
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Ethical Practice in Grief Counseling
2009Co-Authors: Louis A. Gamino, R. Hal RitterAbstract:Most health care practitioners, mental health providers, and human ser-vices workers have a connotative understanding of what is meant by ethi-cal practice. Strictly defined, ethics is the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation, particularly the prin-ciples of conduct governing an individual or group. Ethical practice of Grief Counseling means helping clients and their families while operating from an internalized code of conduct and adhering to the highest level of professional standards and mores. To do so, Grief counselors must start from a position of personal integrity and responsibility and then be aware of and follow ethics codes, statutory regulations, and case law that pertain to their realm of practice.
Saundra L. Mason - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Who needs Grief Counseling? A report from the Scott & White Grief Study.
Omega-journal of Death and Dying, 2010Co-Authors: Louis A. Gamino, Kenneth W. Sewell, Nancy S. Hogan, Saundra L. MasonAbstract:Cluster analysis was performed on a diverse group of 69 non-clinical grievers whose loved ones died between 12–40 months prior to the study. Based on psychometric measures of both bereavement distress and growth, three distinct clusters emerged: High Grief (high distress—low growth; n = 16); High Growth (low distress—high growth; n = 32); and Low Impact (low distress—low growth; n = 21). Discriminant function analyses showed that the High Grief cluster differed robustly from the other two groups on several measures of Grief adaptation and coping; the differences between the High Growth and Low Impact clusters were less pronounced. High Grief participants sought Grief Counseling significantly more often whereas the Low Impact grievers preferred medicinal help for symptoms if they sought any professional assistance at all. When High Growth participants sought Counseling, they seemed to focus on growth-oriented dimensions rather than mere symptom relief. Of the 11 participants who sought Grief Counseling for...
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who needs Grief Counseling a report from the scott white Grief study
Omega-journal of Death and Dying, 2010Co-Authors: Louis A. Gamino, Kenneth W. Sewell, Nancy S. Hogan, Saundra L. MasonAbstract:Cluster analysis was performed on a diverse group of 69 non-clinical grievers whose loved ones died between 12–40 months prior to the study. Based on psychometric measures of both bereavement distress and growth, three distinct clusters emerged: High Grief (high distress—low growth; n = 16); High Growth (low distress—high growth; n = 32); and Low Impact (low distress—low growth; n = 21). Discriminant function analyses showed that the High Grief cluster differed robustly from the other two groups on several measures of Grief adaptation and coping; the differences between the High Growth and Low Impact clusters were less pronounced. High Grief participants sought Grief Counseling significantly more often whereas the Low Impact grievers preferred medicinal help for symptoms if they sought any professional assistance at all. When High Growth participants sought Counseling, they seemed to focus on growth-oriented dimensions rather than mere symptom relief. Of the 11 participants who sought Grief Counseling for...
Robert A. Neimeyer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The (Half) Truth about Grief
Illness Crisis & Loss, 2012Co-Authors: Robert A. NeimeyerAbstract:The recent critique of the bereavement field offered by author Ruth Davis Konigsberg takes Grief theorists and researchers to task for perpetuating self-serving stage-based models of mourning that ignore the resilience of most bereaved people, while promulgating a form of Grief Counseling that is neither necessary nor effective. In this commentary I underscore the truth embedded in her analysis, but also the half-truths that result from its simplification and neglect of broader considerations.
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Making Meaning in the Midst of Loss
Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement, 2006Co-Authors: Robert A. NeimeyerAbstract:This article reflects on the struggle for meaning in the wake of profound loss, offering some insights arising in the context of the author's ongoing program of research and practice that carry implications for Grief Counseling and therapy. Three overarching principles of a meaning reconstruction approach to bereavement are offered (Neimeyer, 2001), each grounded in recent research findings, and illustrated with case material. Concrete methods for Grief Counseling that help close the gap between abstract principles and concrete therapeutic practice are presented.
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Does Grief Counseling work
Death Studies, 2003Co-Authors: John R. Jordan, Robert A. NeimeyerAbstract:Most bereavement caregivers accept as a truism that their interventions are helpful. However, an examination of the bereavement intervention literature suggests that the scientific basis for accepting the efficacy of Grief Counseling may be quite weak. This article summarizes the findings of four recent qualitative and quantitative reviews of the bereavement intervention literature. It then discusses three possible explanations for these surprising findings and concludes with recommendations for both researchers and clinicians in thanatology that could help to focus efforts to answer the questions of when and for whom Grief Counseling is helpful.
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searching for the meaning of meaning Grief therapy and the process of reconstruction
Death Studies, 2000Co-Authors: Robert A. NeimeyerAbstract:A comprehensive quantitative review of published randomized controlled outcome studies of Grief Counseling and therapy suggests that such interventions are typically ineffective, and perhaps even deleterious, at least for persons experiencing a normal bereavement. On the other hand, there is some evidence that Grief therapy is more beneficial and safer for those who have been traumatically bereaved. Beginning with this sobering appraisal, this article considers the findings of C. G. Davis, C. B. Wortman, D. R. Lehman, and R. C. Silver (this issue) and their implications for a meaning reconstruction approach to Grief therapy, arguing that an expanded conception of meaning is necessary to provide a stronger basis for clinical intervention.
Rebecca M. Goldberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Creating Relationship Trees With Grieving Clients: An Experiential Approach to Grief Counseling
Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2016Co-Authors: N. Lynn Peterson, Rebecca M. GoldbergAbstract:ABSTRACTThe Relationship Tree is an experiential approach to Grief Counseling combining narrative theory and art therapy, whereby clients create trees representing memories of their relationships with deceased loved ones. The exercise is designed for grieving clients to facilitate processing the pain associated with their losses. Making the tree in a visual, artistic format and then discussing it with a counselor enhances client insight into bereavement. A series of narrative questions posed by counselors helps clients reinterpret experiences with emphases on growth from the past and hopes for the future. The process fosters acceptance of mixed feelings about losses and creates opportunities for bereaved clients to tell new, more empowering stories about lost relationships and their meanings.
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staying with the metaphor applying reality therapy s use of metaphors to Grief Counseling
Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2016Co-Authors: Rebecca M. Goldberg, Julia Bailey StephensonAbstract:ABSTRACTFacilitating loss adaptation and meaning making are important but difficult tasks in Grief Counseling. In this article, we propose the reality theory approach of staying with the client’s metaphor to address these concerns. Because metaphors are often ubiquitous in client speech, this article details instructions to use to stay with those metaphors and draw out the potential therein for further loss adaptation and meaning making for grieving clients. Staying with the metaphor offers grieving clients opportunities to deepen self-awareness and strengthen connections with loved ones. We offer case examples that make use of client- and counselor-generated metaphors for both death-related and nondeath losses that appear in Grief Counseling.
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Staying with the Metaphor: Applying Reality Therapy’s Use of Metaphors to Grief Counseling
Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2016Co-Authors: Rebecca M. Goldberg, Julia Bailey StephensonAbstract:ABSTRACTFacilitating loss adaptation and meaning making are important but difficult tasks in Grief Counseling. In this article, we propose the reality theory approach of staying with the client’s metaphor to address these concerns. Because metaphors are often ubiquitous in client speech, this article details instructions to use to stay with those metaphors and draw out the potential therein for further loss adaptation and meaning making for grieving clients. Staying with the metaphor offers grieving clients opportunities to deepen self-awareness and strengthen connections with loved ones. We offer case examples that make use of client- and counselor-generated metaphors for both death-related and nondeath losses that appear in Grief Counseling.
