SURVIVING SOLO CONFERENCE HELPS TEACH SKILLS FOR COPING WITH GRIEF, LOSSDan Webster Staff writer
At a Loss for Words: Grieving Your Old Life After speaking with many people diagnosed with chronic illnesses, Nicole has observed that they often feel adouble loss: the life they had before theirdiagnosisand the future they might have had without the illness. “A lot of people mourn the los...
As a future medical student, it's vital that you prepare yourself to compassionately face death and dying and the complex emotions that follow. One way to do this is by volunteering in a hospice facility or nursing home and honing the following seven skills. You can then call ...
While topics such as depression, eating disorders, self-harm and grief and loss are addressed, there is a substantial focus on the positive aspects of coping, including an emphasis on resilience and the achievement of happiness. In addition to the wide-ranging research findings that are reported...
"I had to teach myself to advocate – no one should leave a hospital with more trauma than they came with."- Julie Walters We extend our sincere gratitude to ou
Mass unemploy- ment can result in deeply existential experiences of loss and anxiety, brought about by broad threats to fundamen- tal needs for survival, social connection and self-determi- nation [15]. The potential for cascading or delayed mental health impacts of unemployment and economic ...
Although literature argues that resilience can exist as a personality trait (e.g., Seery, 2011), several studies reveal that it can be a dynamic protective process affected by various coping skills (Campbell-Sills, Cohan, & Stein, 2006; Stratta et al., 2015). As the positive outcome of ...
Similarly, participants identified the importance of emotional coping (coping with the challenges related to their emotions, such as their own grief and sense of helplessness). Emotional coping was further categorized at the personal and professional levels. Two subthemes were identified at the ...
Additionally, medical students are confronted with topics like death and grief; therefore, they are more often affected by depression [2]. A German study revealed that health-related quality of life is reduced in med- ical students and depression is frequent [6]. Saravanan and Wilks [7] ...
Results: The experiences of stigma among women living with HIV/AIDS included family role (wife/mother/grandmother) collapse and disgusted by family, resignation in being shunned by others, helplessness due to social exclusion, grief at being devaluated, and resentment for experiencing injustice. The...