Journal of Loss & TraumaPub Date : 2015-01-01Epub Date: 2014-11-20DOI: 10.1080/15325024.2014.949148
Christy A Denckla, Robert F Bornstein, Anthony D Mancini, George A Bonanno
{"title":"Disambiguating Dependency and Attachment Among Conjugally Bereaved Adults.","authors":"Christy A Denckla, Robert F Bornstein, Anthony D Mancini, George A Bonanno","doi":"10.1080/15325024.2014.949148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2014.949148","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aims to investigate the effects of dependency and attachment in adjusting to the loss of a loved one by directly comparing the relative contribution of each to bereavement outcomes among midlife adults. Comparisons among attachment and dependency are made using models that control for attachment among three groups of bereaved adults (<i>N</i>=102): prolonged grievers (<i>n</i>=25), resolved grievers (<i>n</i>=41), and a married comparison group (<i>n</i>=36). Prolonged grievers displayed higher marginal means of dysfunctional detachment dependency and lower marginal means of healthy dependency compared to resolved grievers and married adults, even when controlling for attachment style. Findings suggest that attachment and dependency predict unique domains of grief outcome.</p>","PeriodicalId":47527,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Loss & Trauma","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15325024.2014.949148","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35311586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Betty Pfefferbaum, Mary A Noffsinger, Leslie H Wind, James R Allen
{"title":"Children's Coping in the Context of Disasters and Terrorism.","authors":"Betty Pfefferbaum, Mary A Noffsinger, Leslie H Wind, James R Allen","doi":"10.1080/15325024.2013.791797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2013.791797","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Disasters and terrorism present significant and often overwhelming challenges for children and families worldwide. Individual, family, and social factors influence disaster reactions and the diverse ways in which children cope. This article links conceptualizations of stress and coping to empirical knowledge of children's disaster reactions, identifies limitations in our current understanding, and suggests areas for future study of disaster coping. Coping strategies, developmental trajectories influencing coping, and the interplay between parent and child coping represent critical areas for advancing the field and for informing programs and services that benefit children's preparedness and foster resilience in the face of mass trauma.</p>","PeriodicalId":47527,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Loss & Trauma","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15325024.2013.791797","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32221906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Loss & TraumaPub Date : 2013-09-01Epub Date: 2013-03-18DOI: 10.1080/15325024.2012.719335
Rachel Cole, Ben Hayes, Dan Jones, Sonia Shah
{"title":"Coping Strategies Used by School Staff After a Crisis: A Research Note.","authors":"Rachel Cole, Ben Hayes, Dan Jones, Sonia Shah","doi":"10.1080/15325024.2012.719335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2012.719335","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is much literature on crisis support in schools but little on how school staff are affected. This research had two aims: to begin to explore the coping strategies used by school staff after a crisis event, and to investigate measures that might prove valuable for future research. Seven cases are presented using three measures: the WHO (Five) Wellbeing Index, the Impact of Event Scale-Revised, and the Ways of Coping-Revised. Results from this initial study show great variation in the range of responses reported by teachers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47527,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Loss & Trauma","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15325024.2012.719335","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32625042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ReMembering Mother: Reconstituting Voice and Identity Through Narrative With Alzheimer's Patients","authors":"Deborah Cunningham Breede","doi":"10.1080/15325024.2012.714225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2012.714225","url":null,"abstract":"This is the story of a mother and a daughter, now informed by the mother's worsening dementia. Identities, memories, and subjectivities are interwoven in this narrative reflection exploring the continuing, influential, and rich relationship between the mother, Mom; her daughter, Deborah; and the relatives, friends, and colleagues—both past and present—who have helped build and maintain these identities. Narratives (Bochner, 2000; 2001; Carr, 1986; Davis, 2008), memories (Connerton, 1995, 2011; Davis, 2003; Romano, 2004), and identities (Gergen, 1971, 1991) are created, revised, and reconstituted through reflexivity in consideration of the other (Madison, 2012).","PeriodicalId":47527,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Loss & Trauma","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15325024.2012.714225","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59842366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disciplinary Wounds: Has Grief Become the Identified Patient for a Field Gone Awry?","authors":"Leeat Granek","doi":"10.1080/15325024.2012.688708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2012.688708","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the last few decades, grief and loss research in the psychological domain has focused almost exclusively on its dysfunctional nature. I examine what is underneath these questions about pathology and suggest that our discipline is suffering from an attachment wound where we have dissociated from our historical roots when it comes to the study of grief and loss. I argue that we need to ask new questions about grief and loss and present two examples of my collaborative work to illustrate innovative ways of thinking about and researching grief.</p>","PeriodicalId":47527,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Loss & Trauma","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2012-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15325024.2012.688708","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32464955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Donald Edmondson, Stephenie R Chaudoir, Mary Alice Mills, Crystal L Park, Julie Holub, Jennifer M Bartkowiak
{"title":"From Shattered Assumptions to Weakened Worldviews: Trauma Symptoms Signal Anxiety Buffer Disruption.","authors":"Donald Edmondson, Stephenie R Chaudoir, Mary Alice Mills, Crystal L Park, Julie Holub, Jennifer M Bartkowiak","doi":"10.1080/15325024.2011.572030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2011.572030","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The fundamental assertion of worldview-based models of posttraumatic stress disorder is that trauma symptoms result when traumatic experiences cannot be readily assimilated into previously held worldviews. In two studies, we test the anxiety buffer disruption hypothesis, which states that trauma symptoms result from the disruption of normal death anxiety-buffering functions of worldview. In Study 1, participants with trauma symptoms greater than the cutoff for PTSD evinced greater death-thought accessibility than those with sub-clinical or negligible symptoms after a reminder of death. In Study 2, participants with clinically significant trauma symptoms showed no evidence of worldview defense though death-thoughts were accessible. These results support the anxiety buffer disruption hypothesis, and suggest an entirely new approach to experimental PTSD research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47527,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Loss & Trauma","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15325024.2011.572030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31767828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trauma of Pregnancy Loss and Infertility for Mothers and Involuntarily Childless Women in the Contemporary United States.","authors":"Kami L Schwerdtfeger, Karina M Shreffler","doi":"10.1080/15325020802537468","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15325020802537468","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent studies have repeatedly associated posttraumatic symptoms with women's experience of pregnancy loss. Using a nationally representative sample of American women (N = 2,894) from the National Survey of Fertility Barriers, the current study examines long-term psychological outcomes and reactions to pregnancy loss and infertility among mothers and involuntary childless women. In general, childless women who have experienced pregnancy loss or failure to conceive report the lowest life satisfaction and highest levels of depression despite a considerable period of time (seven years) since the loss or first year without a conception. However, women with the dual experience of pregnancy loss and involuntary childlessness report the most fertility-related distress. Results of the current study suggest that the \"non-event\" of involuntary childlessness may serve as an additional stressor in the traumatic experience of pregnancy loss.</p>","PeriodicalId":47527,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Loss & Trauma","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15325020802537468","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29947796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Danson Jones, Rosemarie Lillianne Macias, Paul B Gold, Paul Barreira, William Fisher
{"title":"WHEN PARENTS WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS LOSE CONTACT WITH THEIR CHILDREN: ARE PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS OR SUBSTANCE USE TO BLAME?","authors":"Danson Jones, Rosemarie Lillianne Macias, Paul B Gold, Paul Barreira, William Fisher","doi":"10.1080/15325020701741849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15325020701741849","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study compared parental psychiatric symptom severity, and the absence or presence of severe substance abuse, as predictors of contact with minor children for a representative sample of adults with diagnoses of serious mental illness (N = 45). Child contact and psychiatric symptom severity were measured during regularly scheduled 6-month research interviews over a total 30-month period following each participant's entry into the project. Severe substance abuse was documented as present or absent for the 6-month interval preceding each interview. Results revealed that incidence of severe substance abuse was repeatedly associated with less frequent parent-child contact, even after controlling for psychiatric symptoms, diagnosis, gender, age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Neither psychiatric diagnosis nor symptom severity predicted frequency of child contact when substance abuse was taken into account. Mental health agencies offering parenting classes for adults with serious mental illness should incorporate substance use interventions to reduce loss of child custody and strengthen parent-child relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":47527,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Loss & Trauma","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2008-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15325020701741849","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28595191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: The Merging of Stress, Trauma, and Crisis with the Journal of Loss and Trauma","authors":"John H. Harvey Editor-in-Chief","doi":"10.1080/15325020601120821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15325020601120821","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47527,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Loss & Trauma","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2007-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15325020601120821","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59842308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Running to Stand Still: The Story of a Victim, A Survivor, A Wounded Healer—A Narrative of Male Sexual Abuse from the Inside","authors":"R. Harvey Lemelin","doi":"10.1080/15325020600663128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15325020600663128","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides a sociological introspection pertaining to male sexual abuse from a wounded healer's (Etherington, 2000) perspective. Inspired from postmodern narrative and ethnographic works (Ellis & Bochner, 1992; Richardson, 1997), the author layers this account (Rambo-Ronai, 1995) with therapeutic writing (Etherington, 2000) and poetry and prose (Richardson, 1997). This style provides the narrator with the flexibility to move between various temporal and spatial settings and report various internal and external monologues. Also addressed are common misconceptions often associated with male survivors of sexual abuse. The final section highlights the evolution of the author from a victim to a survivor and then to a wounded healer.","PeriodicalId":47527,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Loss & Trauma","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15325020600663128","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59842070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}