Susan Cadell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 210660 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susan Cadell |
| NOMBRES | Susan |
| APELLIDO | Cadell |
| FIRMA | CADELL S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7532-4689 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
When Growth Takes Time
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the grieving experience for some people, yet little is known about how posttraumatic growth (PTG) unfolds in such contexts of disrupted mourning and prolonged crisis. This longitudinal study explored PTG trajectories among 271 adults bereaved in Québec over a two-year period. Three distinct patterns were identified: immediate growth, delayed growth and no growth. Confrontation coping and spirituality emerged …
Rewriting the margins
Michelle L. Williams is a social worker, marketing manager, and DEI consultant. For a decade, she has combined her organizational experiences and background to help build a culture of inclusion. Sh
Interventions for raising public awareness on end-of-life, death, and grief
This scoping review aimed to map and synthesize the evidence on interventions aimed at improving the general population's grief and death literacy. Adhering to PRISMA-ScR guidelines, 11 databases were searched for peer-reviewed studies focusing on the training provided to the general public to improve death and grief literacy. Fourteen studies met the inclusion criteria. The training programs found in these studies aim to raise awareness and prom…
The living need care”
Bereavement scholarship predominantly examines psychological aspects of grief, which neglects the role of social, economic, and political factors that shape the space to accommodate these experiences. Responding to calls for enhancing bereavement care, this research explores bereavement accommodation for workers in precarious employment in Ontario, Canada. Drawing on critical qualitative research and feminist ethics, this study employed in-depth …
Queer Eye and grief
Are Mediators of Grief Reactions Better Predictors Than Risk Factors? A Study Testing the Role of Satisfaction With Rituals, Perceived Social Support, and Coping Strategies
The present study aimed to assess the mediating role of adjustment processes in known risk factors associated with prolonged grief disorder. Data were collected in March–April 2021 through an online survey of 542 Canadian adults bereaved since March 2020. The mediating role of satisfaction with funeral rituals, bereavement support, and coping strategies on grief outcomes was tested using structural equation modeling. Results showed that such adju…
A Scoping Review to Guide Social Work Policy-Practice for Pandemic Recovery
Purpose: The aim of this scoping review is to systematically scope the literature on social work, the COVID-19 pandemic, and health policy. The research question guiding the scoping review is: What are the policy issues emerging during the COVID-19 pandemic that are of importance for social workers working in health and mental health? Method: Scoping review methodology following Arksey and O’Malley's five-stage framework. Results: A final sample …
L’interdisciplinarité empathique au cœur de l’étude sur le deuil
Le deuil est un sujet de recherche multidimensionnel très complexe qui revêt plusieurs enjeux pour les chercheur·e·s, tant au plan méthodologique qu’éthique. Comment arriver à mieux comprendre cette expérience, dans toutes ses dimensions individuelles et sociales? Par quels moyens protéger les personnes en situation de vulnérabilité qui participent à des études sur le deuil? Quelles stratégies utiliser afin que les chercheur·e·s qui travaillent s…
Vivre le deuil d’un être cher en temps de pandémie
La perte d’une personne significative est souvent associée à des impacts négatifs sur la santé physique et mentale chez les personnes endeuillées. Pourtant, des conséquences positives peuvent émerger à la suite de cette expérience chez bon nombre d’individus. À ce sujet, le concept de croissance post-traumatique de Tedeschi et Calhoun (2004) est intéressant à considérer, car il permet d’identifier les aspects positifs pouvant émerger dans cinq do…
Pratiques rituelles numériques en temps de pandémie
La Covid-19 a entraîné des mesures sociosanitaires inédites, notamment des restrictions majeures aux rituels funéraires. Les technologies numériques ont constitué une façon de ritualiser les décès. À partir d’une étude longitudinale auprès de 955 personnes francophones canadiennes endeuillées d’un proche pendant la pandémie, cet article propose de décrire les formes de rites numériques réalisées, leur appréciation et leurs effets sur l’expérience…
Sociographie des ritualités funéraires en temps de pandémie
COVID-19 has led to unprecedented health and social measures in several countries, including major restrictions on funeral rituals. These restrictions concerned pre-mortem, peri-mortem and post-mortem rites. Based on a longitudinal study of 955 French-speaking Canadians bereaved of a loved one during the pandemic, this article describes the reality of these impediments. Through an analysis of the quantitative and qualitative data collected, it is…
French-Canadian validation of the Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report (TGI-SR)
The Traumatic Grief Inventory Self-Report (TGI-SR), which aims to assess both Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder and Prolonged Grief Disorder, has been validated in several languages. This study sought to validate the French-Canadian version. We conducted an online survey exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on grief. With data from 728 participants, the scale demonstrated high internal consistency, correlated significantly with thr…
Predictive Factors of Spiritual Quality of Life during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Memorial tattoos
A memorial tattoo is a tattoo that honors a person who has died. We aimed to understand how memorial tattoos could be an expression of a bereaved person's continuing relationship with the deceased person that the tattoo memorializes. We interviewed 41 people and used qualitative description grounded in a symbolic interactionist framework to analyze the transcripts. This research expands on continuing bonds theory by showing that memorial tattoos …
Grief literacy
The compassionate communities movement challenges the notion that death and dying should be housed within clinical and institutional contexts, and works to normalize conversations about death and dying by promoting death literacy and dialogue in public spaces. Community-based practices and conversations about grief remain marginal in this agenda. We aimed to theorize how grief could be better conceptualized and operationalized within the compassi…
Siblings’ voices
Sibling relationships reflect a unique childhood bond, thus the impact on a sibling when a child is seriously ill or dying is profound. We conducted a prospective, longitudinal, qualitative study over 2 years using interpretive descriptive methodology to understand siblings' perspectives when a brother or sister was dying at home or in hospital. The insights from the 10 siblings revealed complex experiences, both personal and with the ill child, …
Best Practice in Provider/Parent Interaction
In this 3-year prospective grounded theory study in three pediatric settings, we aimed to develop a conceptualization of best practice health care providers (BPHCPs) in interaction with parents of children with complex, chronic, life-threatening conditions. Analysis of semistructured interviews with 34 parents and 80 health care professionals (HCPs) and 88 observation periods of HCP/parent interactions indicated that BPHCPs shared a broad worldvi…
Posttraumatic growth in parents caring for a child with a life-limiting illness
When parents first meet their child, they take on the entwined joys and burdens of caring for another person. Providing care for their child becomes the basic expectation, during health and illness, through the developmental milestones, into adulthood and beyond. For those parents who have a child who is born with or is later diagnosed with a life-limiting illness, parents also become caregivers in ways that parents of predominantly well children…
Death and grief on-line
‘Virtual memorials’ intended to memorialize the lives of children imply significant shifts in the conceptualization of death, particularly for grieving parents. Created by parents in memory of their deceased children, on-line memorials constructed using templates reflect strong cultural beliefs about the nature of childhood deaths, grief and the development of a kind of digital afterlife. Virtual memorials create a new social value for the deceas…
Death & Grief On-line
'Virtual memorials' intended to memorialize the lives of children imply significant shifts in the conceptualization of death, particularly for grieving parents. Created by parents in memory of their deceased children, on-line memorials constructed using templates reflect strong cultural beliefs about the nature of childhood deaths, grief and the development of a kind of digital afterlife. Virtual memorials create a new social value for the deceas…
Managing stigma in adolescent HIV
HIV is conceived as a disease that combines stigma elements of perceived contagion and socially undesirable behaviours. Drawing on in-depth interviews with professional adolescent service providers from Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA, this paper explores HIV stigma and stigma management in the lives of HIV-positive young people. Findings elucidate how additional layers of stigma relating to 'adolescent rights' and 'embodied innocence' are …
The (Re)Construction of Self after the Death of a Partner to HIV/Aids
The aim of this study was to explore individuals' self-construals after the loss of a partner from HIV/AIDS for whom they were a caregiver. Seven gay or transsexual bereaved caregivers were interviewed after the death of their partners. The data revealed patterns suggestive of A. Aron and E. N. Aron's (1986) "inclusion of others in the self" (IOS) with partners described as part of participants' identity. Using the metaphor of the IOS, the result…
Growing up
Children with perinatally-acquired HIV are living into adolescence and adulthood. As this is a relatively new phenomenon, there is a paucity of research highlighting the complex issues that arise for these children. This qualitative case-study examines the needs of a select group of older children (9-16 years old) with perinatally-acquired HIV in the province of British Columbia, Canada through focus groups and interviews conducted with ten HIV-i…
From Death Notification Through the Funeral
Parents who experience the sudden death of a child will interact with many professionals in the period immediately following the death notification through to the funeral. The way these professionals respond to the parents during this critical period may be perceived as helpful, and thus support them in beginning the process of managing the trauma and starting a healthy grieving process. It may also be perceived as unhelpful, though, and contribu…
Trauma and growth in Canadian carers
The phenomenon of post-traumatic growth has been explored within the context of HIV disease in only a limited fashion. One hundred and seventy-six bereaved HIV/AIDS carers located all over Canada responded to a questionnaire about their experiences; 51.7% of these individuals were male, 46% were female and 2.3% were transgender. The range of deaths experienced was from 0 to 110. Forty-four per cent of the carers were themselves HIV-positive. Of a…
Grief literacy
The compassionate communities movement challenges the notion that death and dying should be housed within clinical and institutional contexts, and works to normalize conversations about death and dying by promoting death literacy and dialogue in public spaces. Community-based practices and conversations about grief remain marginal in this agenda. We aimed to theorize how grief could be better conceptualized and operationalized within the compassi…
Death and grief on-line
‘Virtual memorials’ intended to memorialize the lives of children imply significant shifts in the conceptualization of death, particularly for grieving parents. Created by parents in memory of their deceased children, on-line memorials constructed using templates reflect strong cultural beliefs about the nature of childhood deaths, grief and the development of a kind of digital afterlife. Virtual memorials create a new social value for the deceas…
Best Practice in Provider/Parent Interaction
In this 3-year prospective grounded theory study in three pediatric settings, we aimed to develop a conceptualization of best practice health care providers (BPHCPs) in interaction with parents of children with complex, chronic, life-threatening conditions. Analysis of semistructured interviews with 34 parents and 80 health care professionals (HCPs) and 88 observation periods of HCP/parent interactions indicated that BPHCPs shared a broad worldvi…
Memorial tattoos
A memorial tattoo is a tattoo that honors a person who has died. We aimed to understand how memorial tattoos could be an expression of a bereaved person's continuing relationship with the deceased person that the tattoo memorializes. We interviewed 41 people and used qualitative description grounded in a symbolic interactionist framework to analyze the transcripts. This research expands on continuing bonds theory by showing that memorial tattoos …
The (Re)Construction of Self after the Death of a Partner to HIV/Aids
The aim of this study was to explore individuals' self-construals after the loss of a partner from HIV/AIDS for whom they were a caregiver. Seven gay or transsexual bereaved caregivers were interviewed after the death of their partners. The data revealed patterns suggestive of A. Aron and E. N. Aron's (1986) "inclusion of others in the self" (IOS) with partners described as part of participants' identity. Using the metaphor of the IOS, the result…
French-Canadian validation of the Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report (TGI-SR)
The Traumatic Grief Inventory Self-Report (TGI-SR), which aims to assess both Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder and Prolonged Grief Disorder, has been validated in several languages. This study sought to validate the French-Canadian version. We conducted an online survey exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on grief. With data from 728 participants, the scale demonstrated high internal consistency, correlated significantly with thr…
Sociographie des ritualités funéraires en temps de pandémie
COVID-19 has led to unprecedented health and social measures in several countries, including major restrictions on funeral rituals. These restrictions concerned pre-mortem, peri-mortem and post-mortem rites. Based on a longitudinal study of 955 French-speaking Canadians bereaved of a loved one during the pandemic, this article describes the reality of these impediments. Through an analysis of the quantitative and qualitative data collected, it is…
Siblings’ voices
Sibling relationships reflect a unique childhood bond, thus the impact on a sibling when a child is seriously ill or dying is profound. We conducted a prospective, longitudinal, qualitative study over 2 years using interpretive descriptive methodology to understand siblings' perspectives when a brother or sister was dying at home or in hospital. The insights from the 10 siblings revealed complex experiences, both personal and with the ill child, …
Perceptions of control and long-term recovery from rape
The relationship between perceptions of control and symptoms of both long-term depression and post-traumatic stress was examined. Enduring beliefs of personal competence and control were found to be associated with lower rates of depression and stress and to be stronger predictors of long-term recovery than were rape-specific attributions. Implications for clinical practice are discussed
Trauma and growth in Canadian carers
The phenomenon of post-traumatic growth has been explored within the context of HIV disease in only a limited fashion. One hundred and seventy-six bereaved HIV/AIDS carers located all over Canada responded to a questionnaire about their experiences; 51.7% of these individuals were male, 46% were female and 2.3% were transgender. The range of deaths experienced was from 0 to 110. Forty-four per cent of the carers were themselves HIV-positive. Of a…
Factors contributing to posttraumatic growth
With the current shift to include positive outcomes of trauma, this research was designed to explore factors that allow growth to occur. Structural equation modeling was used to test a model for understanding posttraumatic growth. A sample (N = 174) of bereaved HIV/AIDS caregivers completed questionnaires. Spirituality, social support, and stressors were found to have a positive relationship with growth. Facilitation of posttraumatic growth is cr…
From Death Notification Through the Funeral
Parents who experience the sudden death of a child will interact with many professionals in the period immediately following the death notification through to the funeral. The way these professionals respond to the parents during this critical period may be perceived as helpful, and thus support them in beginning the process of managing the trauma and starting a healthy grieving process. It may also be perceived as unhelpful, though, and contribu…
Growing up
Children with perinatally-acquired HIV are living into adolescence and adulthood. As this is a relatively new phenomenon, there is a paucity of research highlighting the complex issues that arise for these children. This qualitative case-study examines the needs of a select group of older children (9-16 years old) with perinatally-acquired HIV in the province of British Columbia, Canada through focus groups and interviews conducted with ten HIV-i…
The (Re)Construction of Self after the Death of a Partner to HIV/Aids
The aim of this study was to explore individuals' self-construals after the loss of a partner from HIV/AIDS for whom they were a caregiver. Seven gay or transsexual bereaved caregivers were interviewed after the death of their partners. The data revealed patterns suggestive of A. Aron and E. N. Aron's (1986) "inclusion of others in the self" (IOS) with partners described as part of participants' identity. Using the metaphor of the IOS, the result…
Managing stigma in adolescent HIV
HIV is conceived as a disease that combines stigma elements of perceived contagion and socially undesirable behaviours. Drawing on in-depth interviews with professional adolescent service providers from Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA, this paper explores HIV stigma and stigma management in the lives of HIV-positive young people. Findings elucidate how additional layers of stigma relating to 'adolescent rights' and 'embodied innocence' are …
Death and grief on-line
‘Virtual memorials’ intended to memorialize the lives of children imply significant shifts in the conceptualization of death, particularly for grieving parents. Created by parents in memory of their deceased children, on-line memorials constructed using templates reflect strong cultural beliefs about the nature of childhood deaths, grief and the development of a kind of digital afterlife. Virtual memorials create a new social value for the deceas…
Death & Grief On-line
'Virtual memorials' intended to memorialize the lives of children imply significant shifts in the conceptualization of death, particularly for grieving parents. Created by parents in memory of their deceased children, on-line memorials constructed using templates reflect strong cultural beliefs about the nature of childhood deaths, grief and the development of a kind of digital afterlife. Virtual memorials create a new social value for the deceas…
Posttraumatic growth in parents caring for a child with a life-limiting illness
When parents first meet their child, they take on the entwined joys and burdens of caring for another person. Providing care for their child becomes the basic expectation, during health and illness, through the developmental milestones, into adulthood and beyond. For those parents who have a child who is born with or is later diagnosed with a life-limiting illness, parents also become caregivers in ways that parents of predominantly well children…
Siblings’ voices
Sibling relationships reflect a unique childhood bond, thus the impact on a sibling when a child is seriously ill or dying is profound. We conducted a prospective, longitudinal, qualitative study over 2 years using interpretive descriptive methodology to understand siblings' perspectives when a brother or sister was dying at home or in hospital. The insights from the 10 siblings revealed complex experiences, both personal and with the ill child, …
Best Practice in Provider/Parent Interaction
In this 3-year prospective grounded theory study in three pediatric settings, we aimed to develop a conceptualization of best practice health care providers (BPHCPs) in interaction with parents of children with complex, chronic, life-threatening conditions. Analysis of semistructured interviews with 34 parents and 80 health care professionals (HCPs) and 88 observation periods of HCP/parent interactions indicated that BPHCPs shared a broad worldvi…
Memorial tattoos
A memorial tattoo is a tattoo that honors a person who has died. We aimed to understand how memorial tattoos could be an expression of a bereaved person's continuing relationship with the deceased person that the tattoo memorializes. We interviewed 41 people and used qualitative description grounded in a symbolic interactionist framework to analyze the transcripts. This research expands on continuing bonds theory by showing that memorial tattoos …
Grief literacy
The compassionate communities movement challenges the notion that death and dying should be housed within clinical and institutional contexts, and works to normalize conversations about death and dying by promoting death literacy and dialogue in public spaces. Community-based practices and conversations about grief remain marginal in this agenda. We aimed to theorize how grief could be better conceptualized and operationalized within the compassi…
Predictive Factors of Spiritual Quality of Life during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Pratiques rituelles numériques en temps de pandémie
La Covid-19 a entraîné des mesures sociosanitaires inédites, notamment des restrictions majeures aux rituels funéraires. Les technologies numériques ont constitué une façon de ritualiser les décès. À partir d’une étude longitudinale auprès de 955 personnes francophones canadiennes endeuillées d’un proche pendant la pandémie, cet article propose de décrire les formes de rites numériques réalisées, leur appréciation et leurs effets sur l’expérience…
Sociographie des ritualités funéraires en temps de pandémie
COVID-19 has led to unprecedented health and social measures in several countries, including major restrictions on funeral rituals. These restrictions concerned pre-mortem, peri-mortem and post-mortem rites. Based on a longitudinal study of 955 French-speaking Canadians bereaved of a loved one during the pandemic, this article describes the reality of these impediments. Through an analysis of the quantitative and qualitative data collected, it is…
French-Canadian validation of the Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report (TGI-SR)
The Traumatic Grief Inventory Self-Report (TGI-SR), which aims to assess both Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder and Prolonged Grief Disorder, has been validated in several languages. This study sought to validate the French-Canadian version. We conducted an online survey exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on grief. With data from 728 participants, the scale demonstrated high internal consistency, correlated significantly with thr…
L’interdisciplinarité empathique au cœur de l’étude sur le deuil
Le deuil est un sujet de recherche multidimensionnel très complexe qui revêt plusieurs enjeux pour les chercheur·e·s, tant au plan méthodologique qu’éthique. Comment arriver à mieux comprendre cette expérience, dans toutes ses dimensions individuelles et sociales? Par quels moyens protéger les personnes en situation de vulnérabilité qui participent à des études sur le deuil? Quelles stratégies utiliser afin que les chercheur·e·s qui travaillent s…
Vivre le deuil d’un être cher en temps de pandémie
La perte d’une personne significative est souvent associée à des impacts négatifs sur la santé physique et mentale chez les personnes endeuillées. Pourtant, des conséquences positives peuvent émerger à la suite de cette expérience chez bon nombre d’individus. À ce sujet, le concept de croissance post-traumatique de Tedeschi et Calhoun (2004) est intéressant à considérer, car il permet d’identifier les aspects positifs pouvant émerger dans cinq do…
A Scoping Review to Guide Social Work Policy-Practice for Pandemic Recovery
Purpose: The aim of this scoping review is to systematically scope the literature on social work, the COVID-19 pandemic, and health policy. The research question guiding the scoping review is: What are the policy issues emerging during the COVID-19 pandemic that are of importance for social workers working in health and mental health? Method: Scoping review methodology following Arksey and O’Malley's five-stage framework. Results: A final sample …
The living need care”
Bereavement scholarship predominantly examines psychological aspects of grief, which neglects the role of social, economic, and political factors that shape the space to accommodate these experiences. Responding to calls for enhancing bereavement care, this research explores bereavement accommodation for workers in precarious employment in Ontario, Canada. Drawing on critical qualitative research and feminist ethics, this study employed in-depth …
Queer Eye and grief
Are Mediators of Grief Reactions Better Predictors Than Risk Factors? A Study Testing the Role of Satisfaction With Rituals, Perceived Social Support, and Coping Strategies
The present study aimed to assess the mediating role of adjustment processes in known risk factors associated with prolonged grief disorder. Data were collected in March–April 2021 through an online survey of 542 Canadian adults bereaved since March 2020. The mediating role of satisfaction with funeral rituals, bereavement support, and coping strategies on grief outcomes was tested using structural equation modeling. Results showed that such adju…
When Growth Takes Time
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the grieving experience for some people, yet little is known about how posttraumatic growth (PTG) unfolds in such contexts of disrupted mourning and prolonged crisis. This longitudinal study explored PTG trajectories among 271 adults bereaved in Québec over a two-year period. Three distinct patterns were identified: immediate growth, delayed growth and no growth. Confrontation coping and spirituality emerged …
Psychology (20 obras) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (18 obras) · Medicine (13 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Grief (10 obras) · Migration, Health and Trauma (8 obras) · Psychotherapist (8 obras) · Clinical Psychology (7 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Psychiatry (6 obras)