Research Article Critique Knight, C., & Gitterman, A. (2014, January). Group Work with Bereaved Individuals: The Power of Mutual Aid. National Association of Social Workers, 59(1), 5-12 Article Summary Introduction: Across the course of a normal life-span, it seems inevitable that an individual will endure loss through the death of a loved one. This experience is fraught with an array of difficult emotions, questions and anxieties that are challenging to resolve. This study looked at group work
(Lin, 2000, p. 3) This reflects post-modern concerns with emotions regarding grieving. Although some have since questioned the work, On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross had general cultural acceptance in the 1970s. This work centered on the stages of grief with acceptance being the final stage. Lin’s empathy for the grieving informs her design by providing quiet space, allowing for tactile contact, and its inclusive list of names. The Vietnam Veterans
When I first decided to throw myself into the journalism industry, I had no idea that included finishing stories in my car to make deadline, spending countless nights in the newspaper office to make sure the paper was error free and went to press. I felt duped. Journalism on TV and in the media was portrayed as fun and rewarding. If you would have told me that for a story I had to take three buses and cross over an abandoned highway to go cover a school being ran out of an apartment building
weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I had ever had about death, about illness ….. about the ways in which people do and do not deal with the fact that life ends, about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself” (pg 7, 2005). Research demonstrates that there is a higher risk for development of morbid or complicated
Mary Calomino Professor Habash War In Literature, CNE 171 24 November 2014 Title Making it on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall is to pay the ultimate sacrifice. The memorial permanently encapsulates the American lives lost during the Vietnam War with 142 panels lined with the names of the fallen that summarize a deadly 20 years of battle, loss, and suffering. Every year millions of veterans gather at the wall to visit fellow soldiers and gain closure from the mental and emotional wounds from the