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Direct linkHoward Sharp, Katianne M.; Russell, Claire; Keim, Madelaine; Barrera, Maru; Gilmer, Mary Jo; Foster Akard, Terrah; Compas, Bruce E.; Fairclough, Diane L.; Davies, Betty; Hogan, Nancy; Young-Saleme, Tammi; Vannatta, Kathryn; Gerhardt, Cynthia A. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
The objective was to characterize the relation between different sources of school-based social support (friends, peers, and teachers) and bereaved siblings' grief and grief-related growth and to examine whether nonparental sources of social support buffer the effects of low parent support on bereaved siblings. Families (N = 85) were recruited…
Descriptors: Grief, Siblings, Interaction, Social Support Groups
Peer reviewedKastenbaum, Robert – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1993
Presents interview with Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of international hospice care movement. Saunders describes her background and experiences that led her to form the hospice movement and discusses the need for pain control for terminally ill patients. Saunders also notes her opposition to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. (NB)
Descriptors: Cancer, Death, Helping Relationship, Hospices (Terminal Care)
Peer reviewedPeterson, Lizette – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1986
Presents a special series of seven articles dealing with biopsychosocial oncology, the role of psychology in cancer treatment. Includes an introduction by Lizette Peterson and articles by Thomas Burish and Michael Carey, Susan Jay et al., Shelley Taylor et al., David Cella and Susan Tross, Gerald Koocher, and Leonard Derogatis. (KS)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cancer, Coping, Death
Peer reviewedSouter, Susan J.; Moore, Timothy E. – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1990
Describes bereavement support program for survivors of cancer deaths developed by Riverdale Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. Presents detailed program evaluation which asked bereaved survivors who were program participants for one year to evaluate program aspects and facilitation of their grief by volunteers. Recommendations for expansion and…
Descriptors: Bereavement, Cancer, Death, Emotional Adjustment
Peer reviewedWu, Kitty K. Y. – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1991
Explored emotional states of dying patients, age, and family support. Findings from 26 terminally ill female cancer patients revealed that younger patients expressed more bargaining and complaints than older patients who revealed more depression and acceptance. Patients with immediate family support expressed less depression and more fears than…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Anger, Cancer, Death
Peer reviewedHarman, Marsha J. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 1991
Presents recent investigations and reports related to group psychotherapy in cancer patients' treatment. Describes primary characteristics and results of studies examining evidence of therapeutic factors, psychosocial support groups, women's adjustment to mastectomies, training in stress management and coping skills, pain and mood disturbance, and…
Descriptors: Cancer, Coping, Death, Diseases
Peer reviewedHopmeyer, Estelle; Werk, Annette – Death Studies, 1994
Examined five bereavement support groups, three of which focused on widows, family survivors of suicide, and family survivors of death of family member by cancer. Members of three groups tended to report strong satisfaction with group experience. Reasons for joining group and most valuable aspects of group experience varied as function of group…
Descriptors: Bereavement, Cancer, Comparative Analysis, Death
Download full textPracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
