Difficulties in Supporting the Bereaved

Bibliographic Data

ID13630495
AuthorsP C Rosenblatt (0000-0002-5283-2736, University of Minnesota, corresponding author), Patricia Spoentgen (University of Minnesota), Terri A Karis (University of Minnesota), Car La Dahl (University of Minnesota), Tamara L Kaiser (University of Minnesota System), Tamara Kaiser (University of Minnesota), Carol Elde (University of Minnesota)
Year1991
Volume23
Issue2
Pages119-128
Publication date1991-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/qqn3-lnpt-rgrn-fge4
OpenAlexW1995872761
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited10

Interviews were carried out with fifty-seven adults concerning their interactions with others who were bereaved. When the respondent and the other person were bereaved by the same loss, support relationships were more likely to be difficult. The difficulty arose in part from problems in making shared decisions, in meeting one another's needs and standards, and in coming to shared realities. In some cases the difficulty could be attributed, in part, to the history of the relationship between the people sharing bereavement or to the emotional, cognitive, and physical demands of bereavement. In potential support situations where interviewees were not also mourners, those who held back generally had not experienced a death of somebody close

Cognition · Developmental psychology · Grief · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Respondent · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Homelessness and Social Issues · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Social Psychology