Asian Americans represent a diverse group of individuals from many countries and different religious backgrounds. Through interviews with nine Asian American parents, some of whose stories are shared here, common themes emerged that spanned across multiple Asian American immigrant populations. For example,...
DANIELA LACOVELLA, CHILD BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLOR: When we're faced with death I think that it's like that veil kind of gets lifted up and we feel fragile. REBECCA GASCOIGNE: You are faced with just sadness and numbness and extortionate pain and sometimes it feels like a living hell. SIR ...
In conclusion, dehumanization in this last phase under analysis has been marked by a more literal, instead of psychological, dimension, as the denial of the other people’s existence as an identity group has no longer been the main goal of dominant narratives in the contemporary phase of this ...
control, financial distress, and lost hopes and dreams for the retirement years. Bereavement losses also abound. Family or friends may be ill or have died, and traditional mourning practices are inaccessible. Where there is this much loss there is also grief. In many ways, grief mimics the sy...
Let the bereavement exclusion dieJ. Sloan Manning
This study explores the lived experiences of six traumatically bereaved women. The participants were interviewed and the data was analysed using a Descriptive Phenomenological approach. Five main themes emerged which revealed the phenomenology of Traumatic Bereavement and an existential ...
With migrant populations, we do not only have to work on loss, rupture and bereavement but also on the experience of feeling oneself ‘outside humanity,’ when the individual has lost confidence in others and may carry feelings of guilt and shame... The outcome of the asylum process is of...
B cells have a number of different roles in the immune response. Their excellent antigen presentation potential can contribute to the activation of other cells of the immune system, and evidence is emerging that specialized subsets of these cells, that m
Ringing the bell to save the bereavement exclusionBoadie W. Dunlop
Katharine Susannah Prichard's experiences of death and bereavement are revealing about one extraordinary woman's way of coping with the tragic deaths by suicide of her father and her husband. She represents her age in having to confront both World Wars, the int...