HLSC 3127

The is a meaning-making model that focuses on distinctive themes with which those bereaved by suicide struggle after the death. Includes 3 phases: 1) trying on the shoes, 2) walking in the shoes, and 3) taking off the shoes.

The includes not only confrontation with loss (LOSS ORIENTATION), but also avoidant coping strategies as necessary mediators of health and well-being (RESTORATION ORIENTATION)

A is the secure place where both thoughts and feelings can occur simultaneously. They are tolerable and responses are appropriate within a given situation. Being outside of this can result in anxious clients experiencing an increase in rumination that becomes more difficult to contain and thus requires more therapeutic support. Avoidant clients outside of this tend to seek out additional ways to remain distracted from their grief when.

The understands the process of adaptation to interpersonal loss as linked to the disruption of homeostatic functioning and as relating and reconfiguring aspects of the relationship to the deceased. Advocates for the assessment of both functioning and the nature of the continuing attachment to the deceased when the significant others die.

The includes a questionnaire, TTBQ, that we can use to evaluate the relative and absolute state of their bereavement as well as compare their response to other bereaved individuals at different points of time.

The stresses that expressing emotion and seeking social support and help from others are critical in effectively coping with loss. This is 1 of 3 perspectives of the relationship between gender and grief.

grievers are both instrumental and intuitive grievers.

grievers are people that experience cognitive dissonance, a contradiction, between their experience and expression of grief. They are truly at war with themselves.

, or prolonged grief disorder or traumatic grief, is a painful and impairing condition under consideration for inclusion in the DSM-V. Typical symptoms are intense/persistent feelings of yearning, shock, disbelief, and anger; having difficulty to care/trust for others; and impairing behaviour to try to avoid reminders of the loss/feel closer to them.
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is a particularly stressful kind of loss because it is no typically officialy acknowledged, and there is no possibility of closure. Of 2 types.

is pervasive sadness that is permanent, periodic, and progressive in nature. Often overlaps with ambiguous loss.

Both ambiguous loss and chronic sorrow are akin to or .

The psychological purpose of the is that the stories maintain psychological security, continuity, and durability in the context of past and present as well as promise future relational fulfillment.

The sudden death of a loved one (whether it's accident, natural disaster, homicide, or suicide) carries with it an ever greater risk of a trajectory.

bereavement is the most different from mourning after death from natural causes.

is characterized by a continuing presence of the loss itself, and not simply the ongoing presence of the individual's grief.

It's advisable that clinicians screen for distress related to death losses sustained in war that may take the form of , as treatments targeted at PTSD symptoms may not be sufficient.

is a term describing grief that is not acknowledged by society.

The goal of joint story telling in family-therapy is to create an experience of .

is effective by "making" and "sensing" ("sense making") are ways of knowing, shaping, and storying grief & loss so that experiences do not remain senseless.

is a natural part of existence. Real or perceived deprivation of something meaningful. Can be tangible or intangible.

is the natural reaction to loss- psychological, social & somatic reactions

is the period after a loss when grief occurs

Our is an overarching cognitive-affective-behavioral structure that organizes the micro narrative of every day into a macro narrative for our self-understanding.