As an innovative way to express grief, social media posts about the deceased have become fairly common. However, few studies examined commonly posted grief photos. The purpose of present study was examine such pictures, as well motivations and reactions those who them, among Italians Americans. Surveys were sent both Italian US participants. group yielded 262 responses (mean age = 22 years; 81%...

Background: Previous studies on the influence of different types of attachment on grief responses have yielded contradictory outcomes. Little research has been conducted to identify the psychological processes that moderate the relationship between attachment representations and patterns of grief in disaster-related grief. Objective: The present study examines the effects of different attachmen...

BACKGROUND Few studies have measured the burden of physical health problems after Iraq/Afghanistan deployment, except in association with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Grief, a correlate of health problems in the general population, has not been systematically examined. We aimed to identify the prevalence of post-deployment physical health problems...

The success of pregnancy and infant loss support groups in helping parents, especially mothers, deal with the emotional trauma of stillbirth is well established in sociological and psychological research literature. More recent studies have focused on the emergence of virtual perinatal loss support groups and communities which offer a convenient means of accessing an extensive group of supporte...

Ms. Tomsic is director, Pastoral Care and Mission, St. Joseph's Manor, Trumbull, CT. N / / "^^k "^P^ursing homes," 1 once heard it said, "are built on a mountain of unexpressed grief.' The speaker was referring not only to the grief of a res idem facing debilitation .md death but also to the grief of the resident's family and professional caregivers. The speaker went on to describe the psycholo...

IMPORTANCE Complicated grief (CG) is a debilitating condition, most prevalent in elderly persons. However, to our knowledge, no full-scale randomized clinical trial has studied CG in this population. OBJECTIVE To determine whether complicated grief treatment (CGT) produces greater improvement in CG and depressive symptoms than grief-focused interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT). DESIGN, SETTING...

Objective: The challenges of grief caused by the COVID-19 epidemic and how to deal with it are serious issues affecting people worldwide, including Iran. Accordingly, the present study aimed to explore the nature of mourning for those who lost their family members during the COVID-19 epidemic and identify the quality of strategies used to cope with it.  Methods: This qualitative study was cond...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to explore how teenagers reason about a parent's recent death and about their life without that parent. METHOD A total of 10 teenagers (aged 14-19 years, 7 boys and 3 girls) were interviewed twice, 3-12 months after their parent's death. The interviews were carried out individually and as free-ranging conversations. A content analysis with a descriptive and ...

BACKGROUND Perinatal grief differs from other types of mourning. Two goals were set: to describe the progression of the process of grief and the symptoms of depression throughout the year following perinatal loss, and to study its association with socio-economic and obstetric factors. METHOD The study involved the participation of 70 women who had suffered a medical termination of pregnancy o...