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Ambiguous Loss, Living Beyond Loss, Death in the Family, Boss 2004
... Як стверджує П. Босс, виникнення даного стану детерміновано генералізованим станом невизначеності, пов'язаним як з минулим досвідом, так і з очікуванням страшного, непевного майбутнього (Boss, 2023). ...
This article examines key aspects of international experience in integrating forcibly displaced persons during armed conflicts. The analysis is grounded in theoretical models of disadaptation and post-traumatic experience (Kübler-Ross, Frankl, Tedeschi, Boss), considering the influence of sociocultural factors on the adaptation process. The research explores the various terms used to describe forced migrants (refugees, migrants, immigrants, IDPs), and analyzes factors influencing successful integration, including levels of social support and cultural similarity. The study examines different national experiences of the integration of forced migrants, in particular: the positive experience of Finland and Denmark, examples of successful integration due to cultural similarity and a developed support system; the negative experience of Denmark (experience with Palestinian refugees) – an example of unsuccessful integration, associated with socio-cultural differences and the lack of adequate support; the experience of the integration of Ukrainians in Ireland in the context of the war, taking into account the problems of adaptation and the provision of psychological assistance. The article analyzes the influence of socio-cultural factors. The analysis focuses on the influence of socio-cultural factors on the integration process, including cultural similarity, the level of social support, access to resources and the presence of discrimination. Based on an analysis of international case studies, recommendations for improving integration policies are formulated.
... A second kind of separation can also influence risk factors. Conceptually, this separation relates to ambiguous loss (Boss, 1991), in that they occur when the parent is unable to care for the child due to financial, health (both physical and mental), and substance abuse problems (Mena et al., 2008). ...
These materials will help students and instructors alike explore human behavior and how it is shaped and impacted by both traditional and non-traditional paradigms. This text will also support the reader in having a deeper understanding of how the environment, in all of its complexity, can affect individuals, families, groups, and communities. It is my hope that the information contained in this book will help you, as a future social worker, approach client systems with empathy, understanding, and a compassionate curiosity that allows for comprehensive assessment, individualized approaches to treatment, and continuity of care. Content in his book is adapted was from • Kennedy, Vera. (2018). Beyond race: cultural influences on human social life. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License • “Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life” by Vera Kennedy under the license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. • Social Problems by University of Minnesota is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. • Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies by Miliann Kang, Donovan Lessard, Laura Heston, Sonny Nordmarken is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, • Principles of Social Psychology by University of Minnesota under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, • McAdams, D. P. (2019). Self and identity. In R. Biswas-Diener & E. Diener (Eds), Noba textbook series: Psychology. Champaign, IL: DEF publishers. Retrieved from http://noba.to/3gsuardw. Self and Identity by Dan P. McAdams is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. • Immigrant and Refugee Families, 2nd Ed. by Jaime Ballard, Elizabeth Wieling, Catherine Solheim, and Lekie Dwanyen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
... It is also complicated for family members who know much has been lost, but remain in the presence of the person whose capacity has been changed forever. The difficulties that this context creates are now well understood, even if this issue remains diversely theorized; for example, as disenfranchised grief (Doka, 1989), putting "grief in abeyance" (Perlesz et al., 1992 p. 148), and ambiguous loss (Boss, 1991). There is no closure with grief and ABI. ...
Objective
This qualitative study examined adult perspectives on the adjustments children face through the process of paternal incarceration and eventual release.
Background
While the United States leads the world in incarceration, 95% of imprisoned individuals return to community life. Despite poor outcomes for children with incarcerated fathers, less is known as to how they fair after fathers' release. Conceptualizing paternal incarceration and reentry as linked rather than disparate events, this study examines perspectives on family separation, reunification, and children's adjustment when fathers return from prison.
Method
The sample consisted of 38 participants (19 previously incarcerated fathers, nine coparenting mothers, and 10 relatives) who shared perspectives on 63 children's adjustments. The semistructured interviews were analyzed via thematic analysis.
Results
Two main themes were evident: (a) Paternal incarceration has a lasting toll on children that complicates reunification processes, introduces hurdles to maintaining togetherness, and is tied to changes in children's behaviors; and (b) reentry renews opportunity for father involvement that bolsters resilience despite ongoing systemic vulnerabilities.
Conclusion
Postrelease family reunification may present challenges for children's adjustment, though supported transitions may curb some concerns. The findings call for strengths-oriented, needs-focused, and evidence-based reentry strategies that support entire family systems.
We assume that despite the universal presence of death, the response to it might vary
from culture to culture. The way people think about their loss and grief might be all the more different.
The aims of this dissertation are: to study how Americans and Poles conceptualize loss and grief, to examine cultural differences in conceptualizing loss and grief, and to explore in what ways culture and individual experience might affect conceptualization of loss and grief.
We conducted a qualitative research study (questionnaires). A total of 37 Americans and 42 Poles, who had lost a loved one within 1–5 years, took part in the survey.
The data was analyzed in three chapters. The metaphors and blends (Lakoff & Johnson 1980; Fauconnier & Turner 2002) were grouped according to the semantic patterns we identified. This allowed us to develop the models of the concepts of loss and grief. A separate chapter concerned loss and grief in relation to the mode of death and the type of previous relationship with the lost one.
In general, both Americans and Poles viewed loss negatively. The most common way of seeing LOSS was ABSENCE OF SOMEONE. Other categories were more metaphorical. Although LOSS was mainly viewed negatively, this was not always the case with GRIEF.
We hope that this dissertation will be useful not only to linguists and scholars within culture studies, but also to psychologists, therapists, and anyone interested in the topics of loss and grief.
In this article, we explore the impact of South African families' emigration on parents/grandparents who must renegotiate their lives in their loved ones' physical absence. We adopted a transnational perspective in a bigger qualitative project to consider both sides of the migratory spectrum. Here we focus on elderly family members who remain behind-a group largely neglected in prior research. Our findings illustrate the complex emotions and relational changes experienced by elderly people whose families emigrate. New technologies bridge distances, allowing new ways to connect and take care of each other, and of re-imagining transnational relationships and what constitutes family life, but these bridges cannot negate the loss experienced by those remaining. People have to make sense of the emigration and forge new relational bonds with remaining family members. Our findings stress grandparents' meaningful role in a family system and highlight some gendered and racial differences in families' experiences.
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When a patient is diagnosed with cancer, a number of losses and grief processes occur. Theories and models of loss, grief, and mourning are explored for the patient, her family member, and the medical treatment team, through a personal reflection when treating a patient undergoing a course of radiation treatment in a large cancer center. Reflection on this event can be used to guide health care facilities to assess and develop support systems for patients, caregivers, and health care professionals to cope with loss and grief processes in a healthy and meaningful way.
Objective
To explore family boundary ambiguity in the parent–child relationships of transgender youth.
Background
Transgender youth may perceive a lack of clarity about whether parents will accept their authentic gender expression, continue to support them physically and emotionally, and regard them as a member of the family. Uncertainty about being in or out of the family and whether family relationships endure is stressful and can lead to psychological distress, a sense of ambiguous loss, and frozen grief.
Method
Ethnographic content analysis was conducted based on interviews with 90 transgender youth recruited from community centers in 10 regions across 3 countries.
Results
Narratives revealed that transgender youth experienced family boundary ambiguity related to relational ambiguity, structural ambiguity, and identity ambiguity. Each experience of ambiguity obscured whether participants remained in the family and interpersonally connected to their parents.
Conclusion
Transgender youth actively navigated complex and ambiguous parent–child relationships whereby participants attempted to reconcile their need for authentic gender expression combined with their need for family connectedness and acceptance.
Implications
Family clinicians, educators, and policymakers are urged to consider family and transgender resilience through a lens of ambiguous loss and to promote a gender‐affirmative life‐span approach to clinical care for transgender individuals and their families.
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