“Being a professional who has specialized in the field of grief and loss since 1979, I am aware of Ligia’s contribution she made to the literature with her book Counseling Hispanics Through Loss, Grief, and Bereavement. Moreover, she created a grief model entitled The 11 Principles of Tran...
Specifically, Ott and colleagues found that most older adults experienced an increase in symptoms of grief alone, or symptoms of grief and depression, that mitigated with time. The majority of the remaining participants met the proposed criteria for complicated grief. Factors That Affect Grief ...
Bisma has extensive experience counseling children, teens, and adults from diverse backgrounds and helping them deal with various life issues. Bisma currently works at Mount Sinai Hospital in the Psychiatric Department as a therapist and has a podcast called Therappuccino where she addresses various ...
Once the cause of empathic failure is analyzed, therapists can devise interventions that develop or compensate for the lack of support. These interventions can include individual or group counseling, support groups, expressive therapies, or the therapeutic use of ritual. See also: Grief AND Mourning...
We also compared bereaved adults who received grief counseling (N=822 women, N=190 men) with bereaved controls who had not (N=233 women, N=66 men). Bereaved adults reported significantly more substance use, behavioral disengagement, and emotional eating than non-bereaved adults. Counseling ...
The proportion of bereaved individuals who had the poorest functioning has been reported as 7% for bereaved spouses in older age experiencing depressive symptoms, hopelessness, and loneliness48; 8.4% for Chinese parents who lost an only child and faced high levels of physical impairment, negative ...
While most people usually show symptoms for a month or two, some can develop complicated grief. When this occurs, treatment providers andonline counselingcan offer additional support and guidance.A 2005 studyshowed thatgrief treatmentsthat resembled trauma therapy seemed to promote an approximately 25%...
During premarital counseling the name issue was brought up. I mentioned the long legal process and all that I would have to do. I also stated I would like to hyphenate my name partly for the kids but mostly because I didn’t want to give up myself, who I was, my name. No ...
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Our work provides a basis for further longitudinal and experimental research, particularly studies that explore whether the treatment of severe grief reactions may be a viable additional method to target loneliness in (older) bereaved adults. The following are the Supplementary data to this article: ...