MAPPING GRIEF

Mapping Grief: a study in practice using a quantitative and qualitative approach to exploring and addressing the range of responses to loss Linda Machin, Bob Spall

Mapping Grief: a study in practice using a quantitative and qualitative approach to exploring and addressing the range of responses to loss Linda Machin, Bob Spall

PART 01

Title of Research

Machin, L & Spall, B, Mapping Grief: A study in practice using the quantitative and qualitative approach to exploring and addressing range of responses to loss. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 2004, 4(1), 9-17.

Introduction

Understanding the complexity and varied ways in which grieving individuals are crucial for nurses who themselves often involved in supporting members of the family of the deceased in the variety of environments; one example is the Macmillan nurse.

Strengths & Weaknesses

This article describes a clinical tool, the Grief Map, which is designed to help those who are suffering death and not death losses. The map provides a constructive multidimensional framework to tackle the phenomena of the grieving process and to rebuild life after a major loss. The method of development of the map and its various uses as an assessment, education, and a therapeutic tool are detailed with illustrative case examples. The map and directions for future research are discussed. It seems appropriate, therefore, to consider specific bereavement responses made by older people in terms of age, grief more experience than any other social group (Beauchamp, 2003: 338). Traditionally, the grieving process is generally viewed as a linear process with a beginning, middle and end. This mechanistic approach has been criticized for being inadequate and misleading. In particular, the authors argue that in relation to older people, bereavement models suggest that the suffering "emotional release" of the deceased, to oversimplify what may be regarded as complex social phenomena. This paper reports on the findings of the study of elderly people in mourning and is part of broader ethnographic study conducted in the hospital death (Beaver & Woods 2009: 13). Central to the notion of mapping grief is the belief that shortly after the loss; Grief Map exhibits a symptom of his feelings for a dead body.

Literature review

Due to the general literature on mapping grief and bereavement, this review will be selective in the study in such a way that the ways of bereavement and grief covered. Despite increased incidence of mourning in old age, literature is usually balanced in favor of the consequences of loss for the youngest (Breakwell 2000: 21). A number of studies have found that the concept of bereavement is beset by ambiguity problems that have prevented the expansion of research in this area. According to Stroebe and Stroebe, dominant meaning of bereavement is based on the hypothesis of the work involved worth the bereavement can be seen as the cognitive process. This process involves the match against the reality of loss and are several times more events surrounding the loss before and at the time of the event, detachment of the deceased will be ...