{"title":"Survivors' Needs and Stories After Organizational Disasters: How Organizations Can Facilitate The Coping Process","authors":"Marc Orlitzky","doi":"10.1080/10811440008409754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10811440008409754","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Research into possible mechanisms preventing disaster (e.g., Hytten, Jensen, & Skauli, 1990; Vaughan, 1996; Weick, 1987, 1993) deserves great attention and praise. Unfortunately, however, organizational disasters cannot be prevented completely, so we must also understand, and prepare for, the social-psychological aftermath of organizational disasters. Despite the common occurrence of manmade and natural disasters, an increasing number of technological disasters (Weisaeth, 1994), and increasing mortality rates in many types of disaster (Ursano, Fullerton, & McCaughey, 1994), individuals, organizations, and institutions are typically ill prepared for the onslaught of massive loss of life because they tend to avoid and deny unpleasant occurrences. Organizational actors must take the aforementioned quotation from the Book of Job seriously or even go a step further and","PeriodicalId":170545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121433723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coping With Losses and Past Trauma In Old Age: The Separation-Individuation Perspective","authors":"Liora Rar-tur, R. Levy-shiff","doi":"10.1080/10811440008409756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10811440008409756","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Old age is a stage in life in which numerous changes associated with loss can be expected to occur in major life domains. Deterioration of health; retirement; relocation; occupational and financial loss; loss of social roles, identity, status, and support; and the loss of spouse and significant others (siblings, friends) pose an ongoing threat to everyday functioning, forcing the individual to adapt. Thus, effective functioning in daily life represents a major developmental task for the aging (Bakes & Carstensen, 1996; Marsiske, Lang, Bakes, & Bakes, 1995). There is marked variability in adjustment among the elderly, and despite the numerous losses associated with aging, many elderly people are well adjusted and report experiencing high levels of well-being (George & Clipp, 1991;Wetle, 1990).","PeriodicalId":170545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss","volume":"431 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125756763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusions and Future Directions","authors":"Brian G. Pauwels","doi":"10.1080/10811440008409758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10811440008409758","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the preface to this volume, we briefly considered some of the factors that have in recent years helped traumatic stress become a relatively unitary field of its own. We also noted that some circumstances, the nature of which are not completely clear to us, have to some extent impeded this progress. In this final section, we have two goals. First, we reflect upon the breadth and variety of trauma research in both its content and methods and discuss how this breadth relates to the progression of traumatic stress research as a distinct scholarly endeavor. Second, we review what we believe are some of the important future directions in traumatic stress research as the field continues to build upon its present foundations.","PeriodicalId":170545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124277433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Part II: Responding To and Coping With Post-Traumatic Stress","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/10811440008409752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10811440008409752","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":170545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127809285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial board page for “Journal of Personal & Interpersonal Loss”, Volume 5, Number 2-3","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/10811440008409744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10811440008409744","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This is a scanned image of the original Editorial Board page(s) for this issue","PeriodicalId":170545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129669668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Loss Of Trust: Correlates Of The Comorbidity Of Ptsd and Severe Mental Illness","authors":"Cathaleene Ma Cias, R. Young, P. Barreira","doi":"10.1080/10811440008409747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10811440008409747","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the general population of the United States is a topic of speculation, with estimates ranging from 0.4% to 9% (Breslau, Davis, Andreski, & Peterson, 1991; Helzer, Robins, & McEvoy, 1987; Kessler, Sonnega, Bromet, Hughes, & Nelson, 1995). Likewise, estimates of the prevalence of PTSD within the population of persons with serious mental illness have varied widely, depending on how PTSD has been measured. While record verification of PTSD within mental health outpatient samples has routinely been very low (0%-3%), research assessments of PTSD have resulted in estimated rates of co-occurrence of 29% to 43% (Cascardi, Mueser, DeGirolomo, & Murrin, 1996; Craine, Henson, Colliver, & MacLean, 1998; Mueser et al., 1998). A lack of documentation of PTSD in clinical records and inattention to PTSD in clinical diagnoses are thought to greatly underestimate the extent of PTSD within mental health treatment populations. The general consensus among researchers has been that the occurrence of PTSD is much higher within the population of persons with diagnoses of mental illness than in the general population, particularly among those who have major depression (Friedman & Rosenheck, 1996).","PeriodicalId":170545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125401375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Childhood Sexual Abuse and Revictimization In Adolescence and Adulthood","authors":"B. Krahé","doi":"10.1080/10811440008409749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10811440008409749","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Childhood sexual abuse must be seen as a pervasive risk factor in children's lives: No demographic or family characteristics have as yet been identified to rule out the possibility that a child will be or has been sexually abused (Finkelhor, 1993). The adverse consequences of sexual abuse, both immediate and long term, have been documented by a large body of research. After a summary of the main findings from this research, the main objective of the present chapter is to examine the impact of childhood sexual abuse on a particular aspect of psychological functioning: the development of sexual behavior and sexual relationships. In this analysis, special consideration is given to the question of whether individuals who were sexually abused as children are at greater risk of experiencing sexual victimization in later life than individuals without experience of abuse. This question has generated a substantial body of evidence (see Messman & Long, 1996, for a review), and researchers are beginning to understand pathways from the experience of abuse in childhood to revictimization in adolescence and adulthood.","PeriodicalId":170545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125666540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Primer Of Closed Head Injury Sequelae In Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder","authors":"M. Basso, E. Newman","doi":"10.1080/10811440008409748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10811440008409748","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract By definition, an individual diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been exposed to a serious threat of physical harm that engenders concomitant feelings of fear, helplessness, or horror (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). According to the current diagnostic taxonomy, PTSD may develop when the person witnesses harm against someone else or learns of harm occurring to an intimate other. Yet, all too often, PTSD is associated with the direct experience of physical injury through assault, accident, or other violence. As such, individuals with PTSD are at increased risk of having sustained a head injury, particularly during the traumatic events that elicited the PTSD symptoms (Knight, 1996). Consistent with this assertion, there are indications that individuals who sustain a head injury are increasingly likely to develop subsequent PTSD (Bryant & Harvey, 1998; Chemtob et al., 1998), with the prevalence of PTSD in this population estimated to be as high as 30% (Bryant & Harvey, 1996). Moreover, among people with PTSD, those who have sustained head injuries are apt to have more severe symptoms than those who have not (Chemtob et al., 1998).","PeriodicalId":170545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126952783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Williams, Frank J. Bernieri, Sonja L. Faulkner, New Gada-Jain, Jon E. Grahe
{"title":"The Scarlet Letter Study: Five Days of Social Ostracism","authors":"K. Williams, Frank J. Bernieri, Sonja L. Faulkner, New Gada-Jain, Jon E. Grahe","doi":"10.1080/10811440008407846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10811440008407846","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Over the course of 5 consecutive days, each author agreed to be ostracized for a day at work by the other four coauthors. All coauthors’ offices were in close proximity and were located solely on a single floor and wing of their academic building. Each morning, the name of that day's ostracized individual was drawn, and a scarlet letter “O” was placed above that individual's office door. Ostracizers were instructed to ignore the “Os” by not looking at them, speaking to them, or responding to anything they said. Open-ended individual event-contingent diaries were kept to record participants’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors each time they were reminded of the ostracism. Despite foreknowledge and consent, attributional confusion surfaced and strong aversive reactions were reported. Findings are framed in terms of Williams's (1997) model of ostracism","PeriodicalId":170545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116648695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Meaning of Miscarriage to Others: Is it an Unrecognized Loss?","authors":"C. Renner, Sophia Verdekal, S. Brier, G. Fallucca","doi":"10.1080/10811440008407847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10811440008407847","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Miscarriage is a relatively prevalent occurrence in our society. The reported incidence of this event indicates that 20% of all women experience a miscarriage. Women who have miscarried report friends and family responding in ways that seem to try to reduce the impact and importance of the event. This leaves the grieving woman with a sense of little support or understanding of what she had just experienced. Furthermore, the experiences reported by women who have had a miscarriage are quite different from those reported by other individuals who have experienced other types of loss such as a spouse, partner, parent, or friend. Women who have miscarried report a lack of recognition that they have experienced a loss. Little is known about how society views miscarriage or why individuals respond in such an apparently unsupportive manner to a woman who has had a miscarriage. The present work sought to determine whether miscarriage is an unrecognized loss and to assess the meaning of miscarriage to others. Although the results indicate miscarriage is viewed as a loss, it is a loss with minimal grounded or valuative meaning for others, which suggests that the cultural norm of silence surrounding early pregnancy and miscarriage should be lifted","PeriodicalId":170545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127267802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}