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Sudden violent death: social workers’ strategies for coping with a traumatic event in a Bedouin community
- Authors:
- ALHUZAIL Nuzha Allassad, GRODOFSKY Merav Moshe
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 51(3), 2021, pp.1101-1118.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to explore challenges and coping strategies of social workers following the traumatic death of eight women from a Bedouin village in southern Israel. The data highlight how religion and indigenous Bedouin knowledge and customs both assisted and impeded the study participants’ strategies. The findings suggest that familiarity with religion and indigenous knowledge and customs may be useful to social workers in helping to manage traumatic events. However, the findings also suggest that religious and cultural values that encourage suppression of emotion may have long-term negative effects on social workers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Help is at hand for people bereaved by suicide and other traumatic death
- Authors:
- HAWTON Keith, SIMKIN Sue, REES Sian
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 33(8), August 2008, pp.309-311.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
Describes a booklet intended for people bereaved by suicide, those who can support them (e.g. family, friends and colleagues), and professionals dealing with bereaved individuals. It could also serve as a useful educational resource. It has been endorsed by the organisations involved with its development, including the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The postcard for professionals highlights the problems and needs of people bereaved by suicide and professionals. The wallet card has been sent to organisations likely to have first contact with the bereaved, for example medical staff, coroners and their investigators, the police, and NHS Direct. We hope this article will raise awareness of the resources among psychiatrists.
Reality and regret: viewing or not viewing the body after a sudden death
- Author:
- MOWLL Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Bereavement Care, 26(1), Spring 2007, pp.3-6.
- Publisher:
- Cruse Bereavement Care
This article reports on some early results from an ongoing Australian study exploring the experience of close relatives of either seeking or not seeing a loved one's body after a sudden and unexpected death (homicide, suicide, accident or sudden natural causes), and how this affected them 6-10 months later. The findings are discussed in the context of the author's clinical knowledge and experience gained facilitating choices about viewing for families after a sudden bereavement, in a large forensic mortuary in Sydney.
Childhood deaths from physical abuse
- Authors:
- KASIM Mohd Sham, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 19(7), July 1995, pp.847-854.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Gives a detailed account of 30 cases of childhood deaths caused by physical abuse, detected by the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) team, General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur.
Care networks in play: understanding death of a parent as a contributing factor to homelessness
- Authors:
- PERRY Tam E., HASSEVOORT Luke, PETRUSAK Justin
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 27(7), 2017, pp.656-668.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Offering an understanding of specialised service needs of those becoming homeless because of the death of a parent or parental figure, this project is set in Detroit’s urban context, where residents face economic hardship and intergenerational poverty. In this study, the authors analyse the voices of practitioners (n = 5) and men (n = 5) who have experienced parental death as a contributing factor to homelessness in Detroit, Michigan. Findings include the following: (1) the impact of death and dying experiences on these men and (2) the role of care networks in these men’s lives, particularly when these men have and lack “default” caregivers after death of a parent. This community-based research project was a result of a partnership between a local agency serving persons experiencing homelessness, where the practitioner initiated the project with the researcher. The paper concludes with implications for social work practice. (Edited publisher abstract)
Exploring pet loss for survivors of child sexual abuse: a hitherto unchartered terrain of trauma impact and recovery
- Authors:
- TAYLOR S.Caroline, BREEN Lauren J.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, 23(5), 2014, pp.353-360.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Key Practitioner Messages: the effect of pet loss for survivors of child sexual abuse is under-explored; perpetrators may threaten pets to silence their victims; the loss of a companion animal may affect the healing process of child sexual abuse survivors; there is a need for more research to inform interventions to assist the recovery of survivors and education to enhance mental health professionals' understanding of the ongoing effects of pet loss in relation to recovery. (Edited publisher abstract)
Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom: exploring wartime death and bereavement
- Author:
- LAMORIE Jill Harrington
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 50(7), August 2011, pp.543-563.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
More than 5,500 United States service members have died as a result of their service in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in combat- or non-combat- related incidences. This has put the families and survivors of those killed under tremendous stress and pain. This article explores wartime death, trauma, and bereavement experienced by those survivors affected by service members who have died as a result of their military service in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). It recognises the circumstantial and cultural factors of the death as well as the grief and trauma experiences of survivors. Interventional approaches and resources to help those who work with the traumatised and bereaved are suggested.
Does intergenerational transmission of trauma skip a generation? No meta-analytic evidence for tertiary traumatization with third generation of Holocaust survivors
- Authors:
- SAGI-SCHWARZ Abraham, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Attachment and Human Development, 10(2), June 2008, pp.105-121.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In a series of meta-analyses with the second generation of Holocaust survivors, no evidence for secondary traumatization was found. With regard to third generation traumatization, various reports suggest the presence of intergenerational transmission of trauma. Some scholars argue that intergenerational transmission of trauma might skip a generation. Therefore, this study focuses on the transmission of trauma to the third generation offspring (the grandchildren) of the first generation's traumatic Holocaust experiences (referred to as “tertiary traumatization”), and presents a narrative review of the pertinent studies. Meta-analytic results of 13 non-clinical samples involving 1012 participants showed no evidence for tertiary traumatization in Holocaust survivor families. A previous meta-analytic study on secondary traumatization and the present one on third generation's psychological consequences of the Holocaust indicate a remarkable resilience of profoundly traumatized survivors in their (grand-)parental roles.
Mortality amongst illicit drug users: epidemiology, causes and intervention
- Authors:
- DARKE Shane, DEGENHARDT Louisa, MATTICK Richard
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 191p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Over the past 40 years the rate of illicit drug use worldwide has risen dramatically, and with it the number of deaths reported among drug-using populations. What are the clinical, ethical and psychopathological implications of these deaths? In this book, Shane Darke and his team provide the first full, synthetic review of the epidemiology, causes, prevalence, demography, and associated risk factors of illicit-drug-related mortality. In addition, they examine and evaluate interventions to reduce these deaths. The major causes of death among illicit drug users are overdose, disease, suicide and trauma. Each is independently examined.
Traumatic loss, complicated grief, and terrorism
- Authors:
- PIVAR Ilona L., PRIGERSON Holly G.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aggression Maltreatment and Trauma, 9(1/2), 2004, pp.277-288.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The experience of losing loved ones is an inevitable outcome of acts of terror. In assessing mental health outcomes in survivors of such acts, researchers have frequently not measured the distress of bereavement even when losses occur. This article defines current concepts of complicated and traumatic grief and reviews the progress researchers have made in measuring the full extent of distress caused by violent and traumatic events. The authors suggest that measurement of complicated and traumatic grief must be included in research and assessment protocols within cultural contexts in order to develop successful treatments for survivors of terrorist acts.