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Meaning-making processes among bereaved mothers who have lost a child to cancer
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-93).
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8188 Meaning-making processes among bereaved mothers who have lost a child to cancer Lipshitz, Marc Kaminer, Debbie Clinical Psychology Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-93). The loss of a child constitutes a crisis of meaning, as prior meaning structures and fundamental assumptions about the world are shattered, and the natural order of life and death is undennined. Traditional models of mourning, premised on Freud's 'grief work' approach, do not address the concept of meaning-making (cognitive mastery and renewed purpose) during the grieving process, and only recently have theoretical models begun to recognize the importance of meaning-making in adjustment postloss. Grounded theory analysis of semi-structured interviews was employed in order to learn how ten bereaved mothers, ranging from thirty-five to seventy-six years of age make sense of, and cope after, losing a child to cancer. 2014-10-06T11:37:06Z 2014-10-06T11:37:06Z 2007 Master Thesis Masters MSocSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8188 eng application/pdf Department of Psychology Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | Meaning-making processes among bereaved mothers who have lost a child to cancer |
| title_full | Meaning-making processes among bereaved mothers who have lost a child to cancer |
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| topic | Clinical Psychology |
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