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IN-DEPTH RESEARCH TAKES INTIMATE LOOK AT PARENTS BEREAVED BY SUICIDE

7/12/2013

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A recently published book about how parents cope with the death of children from suicide or drug overdose -- Devastating Losses -- reports on groundbreaking research into grief after stigmatized deaths. According to a review in Clinical Social Work Journal (click on "Look Inside" for free access to the article),
Clinical and social science researchers have paid little attention to the experiences of parents grieving the loss of children to suicide, despite the fact that suicide is one of the leading causes of death for adolescents ... The large study reported on in Devastating Losses ... represents a substantial and important response to this call, with findings that are both clinically relevant and likely to inspire future research related to grieving parents.
The book is noteworthy, as well, because its lead author and one of the co-authors, Bill and Bev Feigelman, respectively, are a husband and wife who lost their own son to suicide in 2003. The review points out that the Feigelman's "were able to use their personal experience of traumatic loss to guide their research questions and deeply sensitive approach to the topic":
Devastating Losses is a testament to the important role of meaning-making in grief work, in this case the power of scholarly inquiry in the context of profound personal loss.

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STUDY LINKS MEMORY, IMAGINATION DEFICITS TO COMPLICATED GRIEF SYMPTOMS

3/22/2013

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The results of a study recently published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science link certain ways of remembering the past and imagining the future to complicated grief, which is
... a bereavement-specific syndrome characterized by distressed yearning for the deceased, hopelessness about the future, waves of painful emotion, and preoccupation with memories of the deceased.
The study found that people suffering from complicated grief -- compared with people experiencing more-typical grief -- are less able to remember events from the past (when the spouse or partner they are mourning was alive) and less able to imagine events in the future, but they showed no difficulty remembering past events or imagining future events that include the person they had lost. In a Science Daily article, the researchers said,
"Most striking to us was the ease with which individuals with complicated grief were able to imagine the future with the deceased relative [compared] to their difficulty imagining the future without the deceased ... They frequently imagined landmark life events -- such as the birth of their first child or a 50th wedding anniversary -- that had long since become impossible. Yet, this impossible future was more readily imagined than one that could, at that point, realistically occur."

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