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Peer reviewedNorris-Shortle, Carole; And Others – Social Work, 1993
Notes that children aged three years and younger have emotional responses to death of someone they have known. Cites theories and research indicating that children's individual characteristics, developmental stage, and environmental/familial experiences must be considered to understand their grief. Addresses possibilities for age-appropriate,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Counseling Techniques, Death, Grief
Peer reviewedBurman, Sondra; Allen-Meares, Paula – Social Work, 1994
Presents case report of two children who observed their mother being murdered by their father. Notes that theories of psychosocial development and social learning guided assessment and intervention phases. Delineates behavioral and expressive therapeutic treatment strategies that helped children work through resultant anxiety and underlying grief.…
Descriptors: Children, Death, Family Violence, Homicide
Peer reviewedRando, Therese A. – Social Work, 1985
Discusses factors involved in parental bereavement, including the unnaturalness of the child predeceasing the parents, social reactions to the death of a child, the loss of the spouse as a primary support during the grieving process, and grief-related problems with surviving children. Treatment recommendations are presented. (NRB)
Descriptors: Children, Counseling Techniques, Death, Grief
Peer reviewedAndrews, Arlene Bowers – Social Work, 1991
Notes that, during sentencing phase of capital trial, social worker can have potentially powerful influence on proceedings by presenting comprehensive, reliable social history, and expert opinion based on accepted theory and research regarding human behavior in social environment. Reviews social worker's role as expert witness, ethical issues,…
Descriptors: Capital Punishment, Court Litigation, Death, Ethics
Peer reviewedFauri, David P.; Grimes, Dana R. – Social Work, 1994
Notes that there often is no formally established bereavement service designed to assist surviving family members, patients, or staff members when patient dies while receiving care in acute care setting. Presents exemplar bereavement service using data from few existing or proposed efforts to formalize bereavement services in acute care settings…
Descriptors: Bereavement, Death, Emotional Adjustment, Grief
Peer reviewedGetzel, George S. – Social Work, 1991
Describes four modes of positive survival with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and analyzes them as they appear in support groups for people with AIDS. Sees beneficent, artistic-spiritual, heroic, and rational-instrumental survival modes as compromise solutions to fears of life and death described by Rank. Calls analysis nonpejorative…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Chronic Illness, Coping, Death
Peer reviewedJenkins, Lowell; Cook, Alicia S. – Social Work, 1981
Describes the implementation of the hospice philosophy in rural areas and provides a model of how formal helping systems and natural helping networks can work together effectively. Suggests the emergence of the hospice can reorient social workers to the basic concepts of helping. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Death, Delivery Systems, Helping Relationship
