Sculpting the distress: easing or exacerbating the grief experience of same-sex couples...Funding for this study was received from the Irish Hospice Foundation.

The grief experience of same-sex couples is under researched when considering the large body of literature that exists on bereavement within the heterosexual community. In a previous article, the background to a study which sought to explore the grief experience of same-sex couples within an Irish c...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Palliative Nursing Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 170 - 177
Autores principales: Higgins A, Glacken M
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Mark Allen Holdings Limited Apr2009
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          LGBTQ+ Persons Psychosocial Factors
          Grief
          Terminal Care Psychosocial Factors
          Descriptive Statistics
          Female
          Funding Source
          Interviews
          Male
          Professional-Family Relations
          Professional-Patient Relations
          Support, Psychosocial
          Thematic Analysis
          Truth Disclosure
          Human
          Female
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      ab: The grief experience of same-sex couples is under researched when considering the large body of literature that exists on bereavement within the heterosexual community. In a previous article, the background to a study which sought to explore the grief experience of same-sex couples within an Irish context was presented and some of the findings relating to one of the themes (tacit acknowledgement) was presented (Glacken and Higgins, 2008). This article discusses other aspects of the findings under the theme titled sculpting the distress. This theme describes a number of critical incidents that sculpted the bereaveds distress and were perceived by the bereaved person as either being helpful in their bereavement journey or exacerbating their distress. The critical incidents related to communication issues, staff attitudes and treating the couple as a unit of care. The differing philosophies of hospital and hospice care in relation to the care of the dying were clearly evident within this theme.
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