Beverly Feigelman

Biographic Data

ID4214718
NAMEBeverly Feigelman
GIVEN NAMESBeverly
FAMILY NAMEFeigelman
SIGNATUREFEIGELMAN B
AFFILIATIONSLong Island Jewish Medical Center
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • Grief and Healing Trajectories of Drug-Death-Bereaved Parents

    Open AccessWilliam Feigelman, Beverly Feigelman et al.ARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying2018

    We explored parents' views of the trajectories of their adult children's eventual deaths from drugs with in-depth qualitative interviews from 11 bereaved parents. Parents reported great emotional distress and high financial burdens as their children went through death spirals of increasing drug involvements. These deaths often entailed anxiety-inducing interactions with police or medical personnel, subsequent difficulties with sharing death cause…

  • Comparing Facilitator Priorities of Suicide Survivor Support Groups: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Japanese and American Groups

    Open AccessWilliam Feigelman, Beverly Feigelman et al.ARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying2016

    A total of 56 Japanese and 59 American survivor of suicide support group facilitators were asked to rank the mutual aid objectives of their groups following Shulman's scheme in terms of their frequency and importance. Both American and Japanese facilitators showed an emphasis on personal adaptation goals (such as helping bereaved feel less isolated in their grief or encouraging bereaved to share their coping with loss experiences) over collective…

  • Suicide Survivor Support Groups: Comings and Goings, Part I

    Open AccessBeverly Feigelman, William FeigelmanARTICLEIllness Crisis & Loss2011Cited by: 1References: 16

    This two-part report examines important aspects of survivor of suicide support groups: some of the motivating factors attracting survivors to join these groups and why many withdraw as time after a loss passes. From a variety of data sources, including survey data collected from 462 parents losing a child to suicide, participant observation data (collected over a 7-year period from more than 200 suicide survivors observed at monthly group meeting…

  • Suicide Survivor Support Groups: Comings and Goings, Part II

    Open AccessBeverly Feigelman, William FeigelmanARTICLEIllness Crisis & Loss2011Cited by: 1References: 8

    This two-part report examines important aspects of survivor of suicide support groups: some of the motivating factors attracting survivors to join these groups and why many withdraw as time after a loss passes. In this second part we analyze the support group departures issue, drawing primarily upon participant observation data collected over a 7-year period from more than 300 suicide survivors observed at monthly group meetings and from follow-u…

  • Surviving After Suicide Loss: The Healing Potential of Suicide Survivor Support Groups

    Open AccessBeverly Feigelman, William FeigelmanARTICLEIllness Crisis & Loss2008Cited by: 7References: 13

    With participant observations from peer-facilitated suicide survivor support group meetings, collected over a four-year period, this article applies Shulman's dynamics of mutual aid theory to explain how survivors' healing is facilitated by support group participation. Shulman's principles provide guidance on how survivors help and empower each other to deal with their grief in survivor support groups. Group facilitators can provide more clarity …

  • Correlates of Persisting Drug Use Among Former Youth Multiple Drug Abuse Patients

    William Feigelman, Merton M Hyman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs1990

    This analysis is based on a follow-up study of 48 White male young adults who had been former youth multiple drug abuse patients in day-care treatment. For the most part, these respondents came from middle-class homes. As youthful offenders, many had been sent into treatment as an alternative to incarceration. Approximately six years after terminating their day-care treatments, interview data were collected when most were in their middle twenties…