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ERIC Number: EJ997411
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0748-1187
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Positive Experiences for Participants in Suicide Bereavement Groups: A Grounded Theory Model
Groos, Anita D.; Shakespeare-Finch, Jane
Death Studies, v37 n1 p1-24 2013
Grounded Theory was used to examine the experiences of 13 participants who had attended psycho-educational support groups for those bereaved by suicide. Results demonstrated core and central categories that fit well with group therapeutic factors developed by I. D. Yalom (1995) and emphasized the importance of universality, imparting information and instilling hope, catharsis and self-disclosure, and broader meaning-making processes surrounding acceptance or adjustment. Participants were commonly engaged in a lengthy process of oscillating between loss-oriented and restoration-focused reappraisals. The functional experience of the group comprised feeling normal within the group, providing a sense of permission to feel and to express emotions and thoughts and to bestow meaning. Structural variables of information and guidance and different perspectives on the suicide and bereavement were gained from other participants, the facilitators, group content, and process. Personal changes, including in relationships and in their sense of self, assisted participants to develop an altered and more positive personal narrative. (Contains 1 figure.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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