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Abstract This article outlines an eight-week, co-facilitated psycho-educational grief support programme for adults bereaved by suicide. The programme's design and content draw on current theory and research on effective bereavement interventions, and on evaluations of what has worked well in similar suicide bereavement groups. Action research methods are used to inform its development, review and modification. The programme content has a dual focus on information and emotional support. It combines facilitation by experienced professionals who have personal experience of bereavement by suicide with opportunities for peer support. End-of-programme evaluation shows that these features are highly valued by participants.Keywords:
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COVID-19 has complicated grieving experiences. Rich qualitative description of these experiences is lacking. We interviewed 10 bereaved relatives (mainly daughters) 2-3 times each: shortly after their relative died in the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, and after 12 and 18 months (29 interviews in total). Analyses took place according to inductive content analysis. Losses were threefold: the loss of the loved one; of the (desired) way to say farewell, and of social support. We identified five ways in which the three COVID-19 related loss experiences interacted: overshadowed grief, cumulative grief, triggered grief, derailed grief, and conciliatory grief. This study demonstrated that pre-COVID-19 diagnoses and understandings of grief are not sufficient to picture grief during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. These grief experiences are more complex and deserve further exploration.
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Disenfranchised grief
Traumatic Grief
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
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The loss of a loved one through death is usually followed by a funeral and engagement in various grief rituals. We examined the association between the evaluation of the funeral, the use of grief rituals and grief reactions. Bereaved individuals from the Netherlands completed questionnaires, six months and three years post-loss (n = 552/289). Although the funeral and rituals were considered helpful, no significant association between evaluation of the funeral and usage of grief rituals and grief reactions was found. More insight in the engagement in rituals will ultimately serve bereaved individuals to cope with loss.
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Traumatic Grief
Association (psychology)
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One of the classic findings in the literature of visual orienting of attention is that performance is facilitated by a valid cue even when it is non-informative. This facilitation is then followed by a period of inhibition of the cued area, known as “inhibition of return”. Researchers have suggested that the early facilitation is the result of orienting of attention. However, because cues are commonly presented for 100-200 msec, the facilitation usually overlaps cue presentation. Thus, it is possible that facilitation could be attributed to sensory summation rather than to attention. Hence, facilitation may not occur when cue and target do not overlap. Three experiments were designed to clarify this issue. We found early facilitation followed by inhibition. The facilitation was the same whether the cue was present or not. Moreover, facilitation was not affected by cue duration or by target duration. These results reaffirm the idea that a non-informative peripheral cue can activate the exogenous orienting system, to produce both facilitation and inhibition of detection.
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Family physicians must often help patients through the grief process. Acute grief may occur with the loss of a loved one or with the loss of physical health. Normal grief has well-defined stages, which help distinguish it from pathologic grief reactions. Familiarity with the grief process allows the physician to intervene when necessary and to facilitate the normal sequence of grieving which, if thwarted, has serious ramifications.
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This research investigated the hypotheses that prior expectation of death and participation of the bereaved in planning and conducting funeral rituals will facilitate grief adjustment. Fifty primary survivors were interviewed twelve to eighteen months after the death. The hypothesis that participation in funeral rituals will facilitate grief adjustment was not confirmed. Prior expectation of death was significantly related to subsequent grief adjustment. This led to further speculation that participation in funeral rituals is important in facilitating grief adjustment in those cases in which death was not expected. Evidence regarding this hypothesis is discussed.
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Family member
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(2021). 'Let's focus on us': recounting educators' facilitation practices in improving collaborative commitments of learner-teachers during an action research course. Educational Action Research. Ahead of Print.
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This research explored the development of individuals' collaborative facilitation of different ages in different retrieve sequences and learning materials. The design was a 5( age: 9 years old,11 years old,14 years old,17 years old and 20 years old) × 3( recall sequence: CII、ICI、III) × 2( learning materials: pictures or texts) between-subjects design. The results showed that collaborative facilitation appeared in all ages of both CII and ICI recall sequences,and the final memory performance in these two sequences had no difference. What's more,the amount of collaborative facilitation of 17 years old participants was higher than 9,11,14 and 20 years old. There was no difference among other age. No matter how old the participant was,there was no difference between picture and texts on the collaborative facilitation amount. These suggest that the order of collaborative memory has little impact on collaborative facilitation. The effects of collaborative facilitation in 17-year-old individuals are the best.
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Contrast sensitivity for a Gabor target can be increased by a factor of two when identical patches are separated by about three wavelengths (lambda) and positioned collinearly (Polat and Sagi, 1993, 1994a, 1994b). The facilitation effect was found for a wide range of spatial frequencies but was tested with well-experienced observers. Since practice modifies the range of lateral interactions, in this study naive observers were tested in order to document the initial stage of collinear facilitation. Surprisingly, we found that facilitation is maximal for the high spatial frequencies and minimal for the low spatial frequencies. We also found that when experienced observers were tested, facilitation at the low spatial frequencies was evident, suggesting that the initially reduced facilitation was due to inefficient lateral interactions. We suggest that the absence of facilitation for low spatial frequencies is due to the slow propagation velocity of the remote input, resulting in a mismatch between the flanker's input and the target's integration time.
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