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Helping people with learning disability to cope with bereavement
- Author:
- JAMES Ian A.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 23(2), 1995, pp.74-78.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Attempts to review the recent work on loss in the learning disabled. The work was initially designed to be a practical guide for carers, following a request for help from nursing staff. As a consequence, this review includes a number of specific suggestions on how to care for people with learning disabilities who have suffered a recent loss.
How nurses cope with ongoing grief in clinical work: an exploratory study
- Author:
- McINTOSH P.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 2(3), September 1998, pp.124-130.
To date little exploration has been undertaken as to how nurses involved in clinical family work cope with the experience of chronic grief, expressed by families of people with learning disabilities. This paper reports on a purposive sample of three subjects who viewed a video vignette portraying the experience of chronic grief; these subjects were learning disability nurses working in a community setting. Discusses the findings.