Betty Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Betty Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Betty |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0444-6942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 163 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Development and testing of the Hogan Inventory of Bereavement short form for children and adolescents
To reduce response burden for bereaved children and adolescents, we provide data on the development and psychometric testing of a short form of the Hogan Sibling Inventory of Bereavement (HSIB). The resulting measure of grief symptoms and personal growth was renamed the Hogan Inventory of Bereavement - Short Form (Children and Adolescents; HIB-SF-CA). Psychometric properties were evaluated in a sample of 86 bereaved siblings. Instrument developme…
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…
The case for a sociology of dying, death, and bereavement
Dying, death, and bereavement do not occur in a social vacuum. How individuals and groups experience these phenomena will be largely influenced by the social context in which they occur. To develop an adequate understanding of dying, death, and bereavement we therefore need to incorporate a sociological perspective into our analysis. This article examines why a sociological perspective is necessary and explores various ways in which sociology can…
Always With Me
An arts-based qualitative method was used to explore the experiences of children's bereavement after a baby sibling's death, in the context of their family and school life. Data were collected during in-depth interviews with 9 bereaved children and 5 parents from 4 Canadian families and analyzed. A central process, evolving sibling relationship over the years, and a pattern of vulnerability/resilience, ran through all four themes, which reflected…
Type of Continuing Bonds Expression and Its Comforting Versus Distressing Nature
This study investigated type of continuing bonds (CB) expression and its comforting versus distressing nature in relation to psychosocial adjustment among bereaved mothers. Twenty-eight mothers whose child had died within the previous five years participated in a CB interview in which they rated the extent they used each of 11 different types of CB expression during the past month and the degree to which they experienced each of the CB expression…
Comparison of Continuing Bonds Reported by Parents and Siblings After a Child's Death from Cancer
Few studies have distinguished similarities and differences between continuing bonds as they appear in various bereaved populations, particularly parent versus sibling cohorts following a child's death. This mixed-method study compared how parents and siblings experienced continuing bonds in 40 families who lost a child to cancer. Thirty-six mothers, 24 fathers, and 39 siblings were recruited 3-12 months post-loss (M = 10.7, SD = 3.5). Nearly all…
The Relationship between Grief Adjustment and Continuing Bonds for Parents Who Have Lost a Child
This article presents findings from a study on the impact of a child's death on parents. We explored the prominence and adaptiveness of parents' continuing bonds expressions, psychological adjustment, and grief reactions. A qualitative case study methodology was used to describe six cases. Participants were classified into two groups based on scores on the Inventory of Complicated Grief. Commonalities in themes on the Continuing Bonds Interview a…
Conducting a Qualitative Culture Study of Pediatric Palliative Care
While conducting a grounded theory study of Chinese American and Mexican American families' experiences in pediatric palliative care, we encountered a number of unanticipated challenges regarding project development, Institutional Review Boards, recruitment, data collection, and data analysis. In this article, we describe our experiences, strategies, and insights for the benefit of other researchers and clinicians in the field
The Integration of Religious Traditions in Japanese Children's View of Death and Afterlife
Open and public discussion of death, particularly among children, remains one of the greatest Japanese societal taboos; therefore, little is known about Japanese children's perceptions of death. To explore Japanese children's notions of life and death, 16 healthy children (7 girls and 9 boys, mean age 8.9) were each interviewed 3 times and asked to draw and describe pictures of what “to live” and “to die” meant to them. Transcribed interviews wer…
Sibling Bereavement and Continuing Bonds
Historically, from a Freudian and medical model perspective, emotional disengagement from the deceased was seen as essential to the successful adaptation of bereavement. A major shift in the bereavement literature has occurred and it is now generally accepted that despite the permanence of physical separation, the bereaved remains involved and connected to the deceased and can be emotionally sustained through continuing bonds. The majority of lit…
Mindfulness in Hospice Care
In this interpretive study, the authors explore the experience of mindfulness among hospice caregivers who regularly practice mindfulness meditation at a Zen hospice. They explore meditative awareness constituted within themes of meditation-in-action, abiding in liminal spaces, seeing differently, and resting in groundlessness. By opening into nonconceptual, paradoxical, and uncertain dimensions of experience, hospice caregivers cultivate interna…
Living in the Dragon's Shadow” Fathers' Experiences of a Child's Life-Limiting Illness
Grounded theory methods were used to study the experiences of 8 bereaved fathers whose children received care in a home-based hospice program. In-depth, unstructured interviews were audiotaped, transcribed, and coded for themes and categories. Every aspect of fathers' lives was affected by their experiences, which were described in metaphoric terms as living in a dragon's shadow. Fathers dealt with life in the dragon's shadow by battling the drag…
Mourning and Meaning
Viewed in an expanded frame, the phenomena of grief and bereavement call for analysis in sociological, psychological, and psychiatric terms. In this article, the authors argue that a common theme in these accounts is that of the meaning of loss as expressed in both individual and collective attempts at adaptation. At a societal level, communal rituals, discursive practices, and local cultures provide resources for integrating the significance of …
Assessment of need for a children's hospice program
Canuck Place, North America's first free-standing pediatric hospice of its kind, opened in 1995 in British Columbia, Canada. The province-wide program encompasses a broad spectrum of services intended to support community-based care and provide periodic, facility-based respite and palliative care to children with life-threatening, progressive illness and to their families. Loss and grief support is another integral component of the program. The c…
Challenges of Conducting Research in Palliative Care
There has been virtually no discussion of the challenges that are encountered in conducting qualitative research in palliative care. This article draws upon the authors' experiences to identify issues and options in designing studies that are appropriate to the needs of patients, families, and staff as well as the research objectives. Attention is given to characteristics of the qualitative method, selection of the appropriate design, recruitment…
Patterns of grief in young children following the death of a sibling
Specific grief behaviors observed in children ages 4-16 years in the 2 years after the death of a sibling are reported. Using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), the parents of 90 boys and girls rated the occurrence of behavior problems in their children. Behavior problems identified in 50% or more of the children are reported both for the total sample and by age and sex groups. The behaviors commonly observed in the bereaved children predominan…
Parental depression following the death of a child
Forty mothers and 26 fathers were examined for depression 2 and 7 years after the death of a child from cancer. There was no difference between parental depression at 2 and 7 years; however, 22% of the variance in parental depression at 7 years was accounted for by depression at 2 years. Both times, parental depression was unrelated to either the gender of the parents or the length of the child's illness. The findings suggest that parental depres…
Long-Term Outcomes of Adolescent Sibling Bereavement
The experience of sibling bereavement is relatively unexamined in the literature; the long-term effects of such an experience have received even less attention. In this study, grounded theory techniques for the analysis of qualitative data were used to analyze a series of intensive, semistructured interviews with 12 adults who, in their early adolescence, lost a sibling. Long-term outcomes included psychological growth, a sense of feeling differe…
Identifying Speech Acts from Contextual and Linguistic Information
We conducted an experiment to examine the comprehension of interrogatives such as Could you make the pencil roll?, which can be intended as yes—no questions, as directives to perform an action, or as both. Clark (1979) has claimed that the comprehension of such sentences is governed by, among other things, the answer obviousness rule; that is, listeners are more likely to interpret such a sentence as a question if the question posed is non-obviou…
Manifestations of Levels of Functioning in Grieving Families
This article describes processes and patterns that are characteristic of levels of functioning in family systems where a child has died of cancer from two to nine years earlier. A beginning classification system is developed from Crosby and Jose's (1983) description of elements of functional and dysfunctional coping in families following a death. The analysis is based on 111 families in six states and one Canadian province. Validity is demonstrat…
Mourning and Meaning
Viewed in an expanded frame, the phenomena of grief and bereavement call for analysis in sociological, psychological, and psychiatric terms. In this article, the authors argue that a common theme in these accounts is that of the meaning of loss as expressed in both individual and collective attempts at adaptation. At a societal level, communal rituals, discursive practices, and local cultures provide resources for integrating the significance of …
Sibling Bereavement and Continuing Bonds
Historically, from a Freudian and medical model perspective, emotional disengagement from the deceased was seen as essential to the successful adaptation of bereavement. A major shift in the bereavement literature has occurred and it is now generally accepted that despite the permanence of physical separation, the bereaved remains involved and connected to the deceased and can be emotionally sustained through continuing bonds. The majority of lit…
The case for a sociology of dying, death, and bereavement
Dying, death, and bereavement do not occur in a social vacuum. How individuals and groups experience these phenomena will be largely influenced by the social context in which they occur. To develop an adequate understanding of dying, death, and bereavement we therefore need to incorporate a sociological perspective into our analysis. This article examines why a sociological perspective is necessary and explores various ways in which sociology can…
Comparison of Continuing Bonds Reported by Parents and Siblings After a Child's Death from Cancer
Few studies have distinguished similarities and differences between continuing bonds as they appear in various bereaved populations, particularly parent versus sibling cohorts following a child's death. This mixed-method study compared how parents and siblings experienced continuing bonds in 40 families who lost a child to cancer. Thirty-six mothers, 24 fathers, and 39 siblings were recruited 3-12 months post-loss (M = 10.7, SD = 3.5). Nearly all…
Long-Term Outcomes of Adolescent Sibling Bereavement
The experience of sibling bereavement is relatively unexamined in the literature; the long-term effects of such an experience have received even less attention. In this study, grounded theory techniques for the analysis of qualitative data were used to analyze a series of intensive, semistructured interviews with 12 adults who, in their early adolescence, lost a sibling. Long-term outcomes included psychological growth, a sense of feeling differe…
Type of Continuing Bonds Expression and Its Comforting Versus Distressing Nature
This study investigated type of continuing bonds (CB) expression and its comforting versus distressing nature in relation to psychosocial adjustment among bereaved mothers. Twenty-eight mothers whose child had died within the previous five years participated in a CB interview in which they rated the extent they used each of 11 different types of CB expression during the past month and the degree to which they experienced each of the CB expression…
Patterns of grief in young children following the death of a sibling
Specific grief behaviors observed in children ages 4-16 years in the 2 years after the death of a sibling are reported. Using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), the parents of 90 boys and girls rated the occurrence of behavior problems in their children. Behavior problems identified in 50% or more of the children are reported both for the total sample and by age and sex groups. The behaviors commonly observed in the bereaved children predominan…
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…
Parental depression following the death of a child
Forty mothers and 26 fathers were examined for depression 2 and 7 years after the death of a child from cancer. There was no difference between parental depression at 2 and 7 years; however, 22% of the variance in parental depression at 7 years was accounted for by depression at 2 years. Both times, parental depression was unrelated to either the gender of the parents or the length of the child's illness. The findings suggest that parental depres…
Conducting a Qualitative Culture Study of Pediatric Palliative Care
While conducting a grounded theory study of Chinese American and Mexican American families' experiences in pediatric palliative care, we encountered a number of unanticipated challenges regarding project development, Institutional Review Boards, recruitment, data collection, and data analysis. In this article, we describe our experiences, strategies, and insights for the benefit of other researchers and clinicians in the field
Mindfulness in Hospice Care
In this interpretive study, the authors explore the experience of mindfulness among hospice caregivers who regularly practice mindfulness meditation at a Zen hospice. They explore meditative awareness constituted within themes of meditation-in-action, abiding in liminal spaces, seeing differently, and resting in groundlessness. By opening into nonconceptual, paradoxical, and uncertain dimensions of experience, hospice caregivers cultivate interna…
Development and testing of the Hogan Inventory of Bereavement short form for children and adolescents
To reduce response burden for bereaved children and adolescents, we provide data on the development and psychometric testing of a short form of the Hogan Sibling Inventory of Bereavement (HSIB). The resulting measure of grief symptoms and personal growth was renamed the Hogan Inventory of Bereavement - Short Form (Children and Adolescents; HIB-SF-CA). Psychometric properties were evaluated in a sample of 86 bereaved siblings. Instrument developme…
Always With Me
An arts-based qualitative method was used to explore the experiences of children's bereavement after a baby sibling's death, in the context of their family and school life. Data were collected during in-depth interviews with 9 bereaved children and 5 parents from 4 Canadian families and analyzed. A central process, evolving sibling relationship over the years, and a pattern of vulnerability/resilience, ran through all four themes, which reflected…
The Integration of Religious Traditions in Japanese Children's View of Death and Afterlife
Open and public discussion of death, particularly among children, remains one of the greatest Japanese societal taboos; therefore, little is known about Japanese children's perceptions of death. To explore Japanese children's notions of life and death, 16 healthy children (7 girls and 9 boys, mean age 8.9) were each interviewed 3 times and asked to draw and describe pictures of what “to live” and “to die” meant to them. Transcribed interviews wer…
Identifying Speech Acts from Contextual and Linguistic Information
We conducted an experiment to examine the comprehension of interrogatives such as Could you make the pencil roll?, which can be intended as yes—no questions, as directives to perform an action, or as both. Clark (1979) has claimed that the comprehension of such sentences is governed by, among other things, the answer obviousness rule; that is, listeners are more likely to interpret such a sentence as a question if the question posed is non-obviou…
Living in the Dragon's Shadow” Fathers' Experiences of a Child's Life-Limiting Illness
Grounded theory methods were used to study the experiences of 8 bereaved fathers whose children received care in a home-based hospice program. In-depth, unstructured interviews were audiotaped, transcribed, and coded for themes and categories. Every aspect of fathers' lives was affected by their experiences, which were described in metaphoric terms as living in a dragon's shadow. Fathers dealt with life in the dragon's shadow by battling the drag…
Manifestations of Levels of Functioning in Grieving Families
This article describes processes and patterns that are characteristic of levels of functioning in family systems where a child has died of cancer from two to nine years earlier. A beginning classification system is developed from Crosby and Jose's (1983) description of elements of functional and dysfunctional coping in families following a death. The analysis is based on 111 families in six states and one Canadian province. Validity is demonstrat…
Identifying Speech Acts from Contextual and Linguistic Information
We conducted an experiment to examine the comprehension of interrogatives such as Could you make the pencil roll?, which can be intended as yes—no questions, as directives to perform an action, or as both. Clark (1979) has claimed that the comprehension of such sentences is governed by, among other things, the answer obviousness rule; that is, listeners are more likely to interpret such a sentence as a question if the question posed is non-obviou…
Parental depression following the death of a child
Forty mothers and 26 fathers were examined for depression 2 and 7 years after the death of a child from cancer. There was no difference between parental depression at 2 and 7 years; however, 22% of the variance in parental depression at 7 years was accounted for by depression at 2 years. Both times, parental depression was unrelated to either the gender of the parents or the length of the child's illness. The findings suggest that parental depres…
Long-Term Outcomes of Adolescent Sibling Bereavement
The experience of sibling bereavement is relatively unexamined in the literature; the long-term effects of such an experience have received even less attention. In this study, grounded theory techniques for the analysis of qualitative data were used to analyze a series of intensive, semistructured interviews with 12 adults who, in their early adolescence, lost a sibling. Long-term outcomes included psychological growth, a sense of feeling differe…
Challenges of Conducting Research in Palliative Care
There has been virtually no discussion of the challenges that are encountered in conducting qualitative research in palliative care. This article draws upon the authors' experiences to identify issues and options in designing studies that are appropriate to the needs of patients, families, and staff as well as the research objectives. Attention is given to characteristics of the qualitative method, selection of the appropriate design, recruitment…
Patterns of grief in young children following the death of a sibling
Specific grief behaviors observed in children ages 4-16 years in the 2 years after the death of a sibling are reported. Using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), the parents of 90 boys and girls rated the occurrence of behavior problems in their children. Behavior problems identified in 50% or more of the children are reported both for the total sample and by age and sex groups. The behaviors commonly observed in the bereaved children predominan…
Assessment of need for a children's hospice program
Canuck Place, North America's first free-standing pediatric hospice of its kind, opened in 1995 in British Columbia, Canada. The province-wide program encompasses a broad spectrum of services intended to support community-based care and provide periodic, facility-based respite and palliative care to children with life-threatening, progressive illness and to their families. Loss and grief support is another integral component of the program. The c…
Mourning and Meaning
Viewed in an expanded frame, the phenomena of grief and bereavement call for analysis in sociological, psychological, and psychiatric terms. In this article, the authors argue that a common theme in these accounts is that of the meaning of loss as expressed in both individual and collective attempts at adaptation. At a societal level, communal rituals, discursive practices, and local cultures provide resources for integrating the significance of …
Living in the Dragon's Shadow” Fathers' Experiences of a Child's Life-Limiting Illness
Grounded theory methods were used to study the experiences of 8 bereaved fathers whose children received care in a home-based hospice program. In-depth, unstructured interviews were audiotaped, transcribed, and coded for themes and categories. Every aspect of fathers' lives was affected by their experiences, which were described in metaphoric terms as living in a dragon's shadow. Fathers dealt with life in the dragon's shadow by battling the drag…
Mindfulness in Hospice Care
In this interpretive study, the authors explore the experience of mindfulness among hospice caregivers who regularly practice mindfulness meditation at a Zen hospice. They explore meditative awareness constituted within themes of meditation-in-action, abiding in liminal spaces, seeing differently, and resting in groundlessness. By opening into nonconceptual, paradoxical, and uncertain dimensions of experience, hospice caregivers cultivate interna…
Sibling Bereavement and Continuing Bonds
Historically, from a Freudian and medical model perspective, emotional disengagement from the deceased was seen as essential to the successful adaptation of bereavement. A major shift in the bereavement literature has occurred and it is now generally accepted that despite the permanence of physical separation, the bereaved remains involved and connected to the deceased and can be emotionally sustained through continuing bonds. The majority of lit…
The Integration of Religious Traditions in Japanese Children's View of Death and Afterlife
Open and public discussion of death, particularly among children, remains one of the greatest Japanese societal taboos; therefore, little is known about Japanese children's perceptions of death. To explore Japanese children's notions of life and death, 16 healthy children (7 girls and 9 boys, mean age 8.9) were each interviewed 3 times and asked to draw and describe pictures of what “to live” and “to die” meant to them. Transcribed interviews wer…
The Relationship between Grief Adjustment and Continuing Bonds for Parents Who Have Lost a Child
This article presents findings from a study on the impact of a child's death on parents. We explored the prominence and adaptiveness of parents' continuing bonds expressions, psychological adjustment, and grief reactions. A qualitative case study methodology was used to describe six cases. Participants were classified into two groups based on scores on the Inventory of Complicated Grief. Commonalities in themes on the Continuing Bonds Interview a…
Conducting a Qualitative Culture Study of Pediatric Palliative Care
While conducting a grounded theory study of Chinese American and Mexican American families' experiences in pediatric palliative care, we encountered a number of unanticipated challenges regarding project development, Institutional Review Boards, recruitment, data collection, and data analysis. In this article, we describe our experiences, strategies, and insights for the benefit of other researchers and clinicians in the field
Comparison of Continuing Bonds Reported by Parents and Siblings After a Child's Death from Cancer
Few studies have distinguished similarities and differences between continuing bonds as they appear in various bereaved populations, particularly parent versus sibling cohorts following a child's death. This mixed-method study compared how parents and siblings experienced continuing bonds in 40 families who lost a child to cancer. Thirty-six mothers, 24 fathers, and 39 siblings were recruited 3-12 months post-loss (M = 10.7, SD = 3.5). Nearly all…
Type of Continuing Bonds Expression and Its Comforting Versus Distressing Nature
This study investigated type of continuing bonds (CB) expression and its comforting versus distressing nature in relation to psychosocial adjustment among bereaved mothers. Twenty-eight mothers whose child had died within the previous five years participated in a CB interview in which they rated the extent they used each of 11 different types of CB expression during the past month and the degree to which they experienced each of the CB expression…
Always With Me
An arts-based qualitative method was used to explore the experiences of children's bereavement after a baby sibling's death, in the context of their family and school life. Data were collected during in-depth interviews with 9 bereaved children and 5 parents from 4 Canadian families and analyzed. A central process, evolving sibling relationship over the years, and a pattern of vulnerability/resilience, ran through all four themes, which reflected…
The case for a sociology of dying, death, and bereavement
Dying, death, and bereavement do not occur in a social vacuum. How individuals and groups experience these phenomena will be largely influenced by the social context in which they occur. To develop an adequate understanding of dying, death, and bereavement we therefore need to incorporate a sociological perspective into our analysis. This article examines why a sociological perspective is necessary and explores various ways in which sociology can…
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…
Development and testing of the Hogan Inventory of Bereavement short form for children and adolescents
To reduce response burden for bereaved children and adolescents, we provide data on the development and psychometric testing of a short form of the Hogan Sibling Inventory of Bereavement (HSIB). The resulting measure of grief symptoms and personal growth was renamed the Hogan Inventory of Bereavement - Short Form (Children and Adolescents; HIB-SF-CA). Psychometric properties were evaluated in a sample of 86 bereaved siblings. Instrument developme…
Psychology (19 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (14 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Family Support in Illness (7 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (7 works) · Psychotherapist (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Nursing (6 works)