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Margaret Stroebe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Good Grief : Exploring the difference between healthy Grief Work and unhealthy rumination
Psychologist, 2018Co-Authors: Margaret Stroebe, Henk SchutAbstract:Imagine a client: male, age 46, his wife died from cancer a year ago. She deteriorated through the illness… he can’t get certain thoughts out of his head. Why did it happen, could he have somehow prevented it, could he have supported her more during her illness? Why did she have to die so young? He asks you, ‘Is this normal? Is this Grief or am I going crazy?’ How would you respond? And would it make any difference had his wife died, say, two months ago?
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Grief Work disclosure and counseling do they help the bereaved
Clinical Psychology Review, 2005Co-Authors: Wolfgang Stroebe, Henk Schut, Margaret StroebeAbstract:Bereavement is associated with increased risk of morbidity and mortality. How to protect the bereaved against extreme suffering and lasting health impairment remains a central research issue. It has been widely accepted that to adjust, the bereaved have to confront and express intense emotions accompanying their loss. It has further been assumed that others assist in this process, and that intervention programs are effective. To assess validity of these assumptions, this article reviews research on the impact of expressing and sharing emotions across four research domains (social support; emotional disclosure; experimentally induced emotional disclosure; and Grief intervention). In none of these areas is there evidence that emotional disclosure facilitates adjustment to loss in normal bereavement. Implications of these findings are discussed.
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Coping with Bereavement: A Review of the Grief Work Hypothesis
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 1993Co-Authors: Margaret StroebeAbstract:The article challenges the longstanding belief in the importance of “Grief Work” for adjustment to bereavement (the Grief Work hypothesis). It examines claims made in theoretical formulations and principles of Grief counseling and therapy concerning the necessity of Working through loss. Empirical evidence is reviewed, and cross-cultural findings are described to document alternative patterns of coping with Grief. It is argued that there are grounds for questioning the hypothesis: 1) existing definitions and operationalizations are problematic; 2) the few empirical studies that have examined the impact of Grief Work have yielded equivocal results; 3) Grief Work is not a universal concept. Limitations of the Grief Work hypothesis as an explanation of coping with bereavement are identified and a differential approach is suggested. Implications for counseling and therapy are discussed.
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Does "Grief Work" Work?
Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 1991Co-Authors: Margaret Stroebe, Wolfgang StroebeAbstract:This article challenges the long-standing belief in the necessity of "Grief Work" for adjustment to bereavement. Evidence is offered from a prospective study of 30 widows and 30 widowers that indicates that Grief Work is not always as essential for adjustment to bereavement as theorists and clinicians have claimed. Widows who avoided confronting their loss did not differ in their depression scores from widows who Worked through their Grief. However, for widowers, performance of Grief Work was associated with better adjustment over an 18-month period. The implications of these findings for the Grief Work hypothesis are considered.
Wolfgang Stroebe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Grief Work disclosure and counseling do they help the bereaved
Clinical Psychology Review, 2005Co-Authors: Wolfgang Stroebe, Henk Schut, Margaret StroebeAbstract:Bereavement is associated with increased risk of morbidity and mortality. How to protect the bereaved against extreme suffering and lasting health impairment remains a central research issue. It has been widely accepted that to adjust, the bereaved have to confront and express intense emotions accompanying their loss. It has further been assumed that others assist in this process, and that intervention programs are effective. To assess validity of these assumptions, this article reviews research on the impact of expressing and sharing emotions across four research domains (social support; emotional disclosure; experimentally induced emotional disclosure; and Grief intervention). In none of these areas is there evidence that emotional disclosure facilitates adjustment to loss in normal bereavement. Implications of these findings are discussed.
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Does "Grief Work" Work?
Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 1991Co-Authors: Margaret Stroebe, Wolfgang StroebeAbstract:This article challenges the long-standing belief in the necessity of "Grief Work" for adjustment to bereavement. Evidence is offered from a prospective study of 30 widows and 30 widowers that indicates that Grief Work is not always as essential for adjustment to bereavement as theorists and clinicians have claimed. Widows who avoided confronting their loss did not differ in their depression scores from widows who Worked through their Grief. However, for widowers, performance of Grief Work was associated with better adjustment over an 18-month period. The implications of these findings for the Grief Work hypothesis are considered.
Mordell Devon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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“Treat Them with the Reverence of Archivists”: Records Work, Grief Work, and Relationship Work in the Archives
Association of Canadian Archivists, 2019Co-Authors: Douglas Jennifer, Alisauskas Alexandra, Mordell DevonAbstract:In this article, we take up Geoff Wexler and Linda Long’s call to explore the ways in which records and recordkeeping are “bound up” in experiences of loss and grieving. Drawing on theoretical and clinical literature on bereavement, we introduce the concept of Grief Work and investigate some ways in which Grief Work can be performed through the creation, use, organization, and preservation of records. We illustrate our study of records Work as Grief Work with examples from the Hamilton Family Fonds at the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections, the Sylvia Plath collections at Smith College and Indiana University, and the Lara Gilbert Fonds at the University of Victoria Archives. Finally, we suggest some impacts – especially the ethical impacts – a Grief Work perspective might have on the ongoing development of archival theory and methodology. This article lays the conceptual groundWork for a larger, ongoing study on recordkeeping, Grief Work, and the concept of archival care. RÉSUMÉDans cet article, nous répondons à l’appel lancé par Geoff Wexler et Linda Long à explorer comment les documents et la gestion des documents sont imprégnées des expériences de perte et de deuil. Puisant dans les études théoriques et cliniques sur le deuil, nous présentons le concept de travail de deuil et explorons des façons par lesquelles le travail de deuil peut s’effectuer par la création, l’utilisation, l’organisation et la préservation de documents. Des exemples du fonds Hamilton Family aux University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections, des collections Sylvia Plath au Smith College et à l’Indiana University et du fonds Lara Gilbert aux University of Victoria Archives servent à illustrer notre étude du travail avec les documents comme travail de deuil. Enfin, nous évoquons certaines retombées, particulièrement au niveau éthique, qu’une perspective du travail de deuil pourrait avoir sur le développement de la théorie et de la méthodologie archivistiques. Cet article pose les bases conceptuelles de l’étude plus large et continue de la gestion des documents, du travail de deuil et de la notion de traitement archivistique
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“Treat Them with the Reverence of Archivists” : Records Work, Grief Work, and Relationship Work in the Archives
2019Co-Authors: Douglas Jennifer, Alisauskas Alexandra, Mordell DevonAbstract:In this article, we take up Geoff Wexler and Linda Long’s call to explore the ways in which records and recordkeeping are “bound up” in experiences of loss and grieving. Drawing on theoretical and clinical literature on bereavement, we introduce the concept of Grief Work and investigate some ways in which Grief Work can be performed through the creation, use, organization, and preservation of records. We illustrate our study of records Work as Grief Work with examples from the Hamilton Family Fonds at the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections, the Sylvia Plath collections at Smith College and Indiana University, and the Lara Gilbert Fonds at the University of Victoria Archives. Finally, we suggest some impacts – especially the ethical impacts – a Grief Work perspective might have on the ongoing development of archival theory and methodology. This article lays the conceptual groundWork for a larger, ongoing study on recordkeeping, Grief Work, and the concept of archival care.Arts, Faculty ofNon UBCiSchool (Library, Archival and Information Studies)ReviewedFacultyGraduat
John Archer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Broad and narrow perspectives in Grief theory: Comment on Bonanno and Kaltman (1999).
Psychological bulletin, 2001Co-Authors: John ArcherAbstract:G. A. Bonanno and S. Kaltman's (1999) concentration on the Grief Work hypothesis in their review of perspectives on bereavement is only 1 aspect required for a comprehensive theory of Grief, which should cover the following: the origin and adaptive significance of Grief; the mechanism that initiates the Grief response; the mechanism that leads to the resolution of Grief; and sources of individual variation. Bonanno and Kaltman's replacement for Grief Work also emphasized cognitive restructuring, which can be contrasted with 2 alternative mechanisms, forgetting and engaging in new activities and relationships. M. S. Stroebe and H. A. W. Schut's (1994) dual process model, which involves cognitive restructuring and engaging in new activities, provides a broader alternative to Grief Work than that advocated by Bonanno and Kaltman.
Michael Westerlund - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Usage of Digital Resources by Swedish Suicide Bereaved in Their Grief Work: A Survey Study:
Omega, 2018Co-Authors: Michael WesterlundAbstract:This study examined Swedish suicide bereaved individuals' use of different resources in their Grief Work and how they value these resources. The material consisted of a web-based survey, which was analyzed with quantitative methods. The results showed that the psychosocial ill-health was severe among the suicide bereaved participants and that a majority used digital resources in their Grief Work. The propensity to engage in online support groups or memorial websites was not predicted by the severity of psychosocial consequences following the suicide. However, multiple regressions showed that higher online support group activity predicted more satisfaction with current psychosocial health, while memorial websites seemed to have the opposite effect. This study not only indicates that some digital resources, for example, online support groups, may be an effective way of coping with Grief related to suicide loss, but also suggests that memorial websites may increase rumination and in this way cause emotional distress.
