Marilyn Relf
Biographic Data
| ID | 2125933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marilyn Relf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marilyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Relf |
| SIGNATURE | RELF M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sobell House |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Call to Action
The current systems of care for dying persons, the people caring for them, and the bereaved operate in ways that frequently lack sufficient sensitivity to their needs. We describe a new model for dying, death, and loss that adopts a public health approach. Specifically, we describe a deliberative process that resulted in a charter for a public health approach to dying, death, and loss. Modeled after the World Health Organization's 1986 Ottawa Cha…
Helpful Aspects of Bereavement Support for Adults Following an Expected Death
Helpful and unhelpful aspects of bereavement support were investigated from the perspectives of 24 bereaved adults and their volunteer bereavement support workers. Most commonly reported themes were the provision of hope and reassurance, and the opportunity for continued sharing and support. Significantly more clients than volunteers reported provision of information, and talking to someone outside their social network as helpful, and both groups…
Some issues in the provision of adult bereavement support by UK hospices
Bracketing interviews
A major challenge for researchers using qualitative methods is to explore how their assumptions and experiences may be influencing the construction of knowledge. In a study of UK childhood bereavement services, “bracketing interviews” were used to explore the impact of the researcher's personal and professional experiences during data collection and analysis. Bracketing interviews provide an important research-focussed relationship that adapts th…
Developing services for bereaved children
The purpose of this paper is to address some important issues that relate to the development of bereavement services for children and the resources and skills needed to provide these services.The impetus for this paper came from a consensus session entitled 'Bereaved Children: theoretical perspectives on service development', organized by the Bereavement Research Forum for the 5 th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care in Londo…
Developing services for bereaved children
The purpose of this paper is to address some important issues that relate to the development of bereavement services for children and the resources and skills needed to provide these services.The impetus for this paper came from a consensus session entitled 'Bereaved Children: theoretical perspectives on service development', organized by the Bereavement Research Forum for the 5 th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care in Londo…
Bracketing interviews
A major challenge for researchers using qualitative methods is to explore how their assumptions and experiences may be influencing the construction of knowledge. In a study of UK childhood bereavement services, “bracketing interviews” were used to explore the impact of the researcher's personal and professional experiences during data collection and analysis. Bracketing interviews provide an important research-focussed relationship that adapts th…
Some issues in the provision of adult bereavement support by UK hospices
Helpful Aspects of Bereavement Support for Adults Following an Expected Death
Helpful and unhelpful aspects of bereavement support were investigated from the perspectives of 24 bereaved adults and their volunteer bereavement support workers. Most commonly reported themes were the provision of hope and reassurance, and the opportunity for continued sharing and support. Significantly more clients than volunteers reported provision of information, and talking to someone outside their social network as helpful, and both groups…
A Call to Action
The current systems of care for dying persons, the people caring for them, and the bereaved operate in ways that frequently lack sufficient sensitivity to their needs. We describe a new model for dying, death, and loss that adopts a public health approach. Specifically, we describe a deliberative process that resulted in a charter for a public health approach to dying, death, and loss. Modeled after the World Health Organization's 1986 Ottawa Cha…
Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (5 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Grief (2 works) · Psychotherapist (2 works) · Public relations (2 works)