Think of an undertaker and that is the image most of us have, so how does a smiley, girl-next-door type such as Sarah fit in – and does she deal with death and bereavement in her clients in a different way because she's a woman?
The Orphanage is a disturbing, and yet intelligent and compassionate dramatisation of loss and bereavement: in some ways, it is a wish-fulfilment fantasy, a way of following the departed into the void so that they can be made to live again, and that the intolerable enigma of their death can be solved.
However, published experiences [ 32, 40, 41] demonstrate that patients can, and indeed appreciate to talk about personal and sensitive issues such as increasing functional decline, death, dying, and bereavement in repeated interviews over a longer period of time.
In her gently autobiographical manner she recounts a period of exceptional anxiety and bereavement in her own life, when she found comfort in the Sunday morning community of a Manhattan church.
He has suffered more tragedy and bereavement in his short life than most of us do in a lifetime.
Emerging findings reflect the complex nature of loss and bereavement in the continuing care unit.
The accrual of bereavement events over a relatively short time period reduced concerns about changes in baseline exposures between start of study and bereavement, in particular possible changes in marital status.
Family functioning and parenting can be affected by family bereavement in a negative way, for example as a result of parental mental health problems, or in a positive way, when cohesion increases after the loss [ 10, 19, 20].
We were able to examine mortality after bereavement in a large sample of older people.
There is a distinct lack of education at the undergraduate degree level for grief and bereavement, and a gap in ongoing professional development in the area.
