Making Sense of Loss
A Content Analysis of End-of-Life Practitioners' Therapeutic Approaches
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13630635 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Mcnab Currier (0000-0002-8843-2996, University of Memphis, Tennessee, corresponding author), Jason M Holland (University of Memphis, Tennessee), Robert A Neimeyer (0000-0002-6918-3445, University of Memphis, Tennessee) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 121-141 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/om.57.2.a |
| PMID | 18680886 |
| OpenAlex | W1989460671 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 30 |
Clinical professionals working in end-of-life (EOL) contexts are frequently relied upon to address questions of meaning with dying and bereaved persons. Similar to the gulf between researchers and practitioners besetting the larger healthcare community, the voices of EOL practitioners are often underrepresented in the empirical literature. This study aimed to further the dialogue in the field of thanatology by surveying and describing the therapeutic approaches that EOL practitioners most commonly report using to facilitate meaning-making. A total of 119 practitioners from a range of EOL disciplines were surveyed to write about their intervention strategies for helping clients/patients make sense of loss. Overall, participants discussed using 23 different therapeutic approaches that comprised three overarching categories: 1) presence of the helping professional; 2) elements of the process; and 3) therapeutic procedures. Importantly, the results also indicated that practitioners from the different EOL occupations are converging on many of the same strategies for promoting meaning-making. Implications for future research on evaluating the effectiveness of meaning-making interventions are also discussed
Content (measure theory · Content analysis · Empirical research · Epistemology · Health care · Intervention (counseling · Meaning (existential · Meaning-making · Medical education · Political science · Psychological intervention · Psychotherapist · Social science · Sociology · Thanatology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |