Browsing by Subject "Ambiguous loss"
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Item Grief and loss in adult-child relationships with parents who have dementia : a literature review and mixed methods study proposal(2021-01-25) Wood, Kristie Andrea; Suizzo, Marie-Anne; Rochlen, Aaron BAdult-children of parents with dementia (ACPD) experience considerable levels of grief and risk for corresponding psychological problems. The effects of grief in ACPD on their identity and self- concept are understudied. In this proposed mixed-methods study, ambiguous loss and self psychology frameworks will be utilized. I will conduct semi-structured interviews to explore how the changing parent adult-child relationship affects adult-child identity and self-concept in 12 adult-children of mothers with dementia. Of particular interest, changes in the relationship that are due to the adult-child’s perception of the parent’s psychological absence and diminished empathic attunement will be assessed. Data will be analyzed using grounded theory to identify themes. I will collect quantitative data and use descriptive and correlation analyses to confirm and expand on qualitative insights and further identify links between themes from the interviews.Item Identity, mobility, and marginality : counseling third culture kids in college(2012-05) Downey, Dana Leigh; Awad, Germine H.; Moore, Leslie A.The number of Americans living abroad currently is estimated at over four million, with over 37,000 matriculating into U.S. universities each year. If the social media giant Facebook were a country, it would be third largest in the world, with over 300 million users outside of America. The trajectory of our society is increasingly global. Amidst this shift, there is a unique multicultural subpopulation emerging-- Third Culture Kids (TCK), who experience a collision of cultures and form hybrid identities in the course of their development. TCKs are more specifically when a person spends a significant part of their developmental years outside their parents’ culture. The TCK takes on pieces of each culture, while never fully ‘belonging’ to any. They are most at home around others of a similar transient background. This report synthesizes research about globally mobile populations from across disciples, highlighting grief and ambiguous losses, acculturation stresses, and identity development. Potential implications for the college campus— at institutional and individual levels— will be discussed. This overview of current research and resources equips college counselors with a frame of reference for engaging this third culture in a holistic and contextualized manner.Item The wound is always raw : searching, uncertainty, and collective support in the lives of mothers of disappeared people in contemporary Mexico(2019-06-26) De la O, Moravia; González-López, Gloria, 1960-Mothers of disappeared people are caught at the intersection of two very difficult experiences: actively searching for their daughters and sons and facing the tremendous pain that comes from having a disappeared loved one. Drawing from ten in-depth interviews with mothers of disappeared people in contemporary Mexico, this thesis explores the impacts of both of these challenges and the ways that these mothers navigate them. In particular, uncertainty, the search for their daughters and sons, social isolation, and collective support emerged as key components of the experiences of this group of women. Their experiences highlight the traumatic nature of the uncertainty about the fate and whereabouts of their daughters and sons and the emotional and cognitive flexibility that allows them to simultaneously hold seemingly contradictory beliefs that go beyond the dichotomy of life and death. The State maintains and reproduces uncertainty through the legal-administrative stage of disappearance, rooted in a historically flawed, corrupt, and inefficient bureaucracy. In this way, the uncertainty that characterizes disappearance is not only an individually traumatizing event, but also becomes part of a complex and multidimensional expression of State violence. For many mothers, actively engaging in the search for their disappeared loved one is an important coping mechanism and a source of personal empowerment, but it also creates important challenges in their lives. Although many mothers experience social isolation in the aftermath of the disappearance of their daughters and sons, the various forms of legal-administrative, emotional, and material support that they access through involvement in collectives of relatives of disappeared people are important sources of strength and resilience