Dissertations / Theses: 'Loss (Psychology)'

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Mackenzie, Alexander Iain. "Almost certain loss: the psychology of pyramid schemes." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Psychology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1324.

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This thesis investigates investing in pyramid schemes. Study 1 explored the relationships between people s perceptions of investment options and their investment decisions. These options included a bank, a pyramid scheme, stock market and a safe. In this study, participants imagined they could invest money in any of the options and rated their perceptions of each option on various scales. When investing money, participants invested larger amounts in the options that they rated more positively. Compared to other investors, pyramid investors had higher positive correlations between their ratings of the pyramid scheme and how much money they invested. In Study 2 participants indicated how much money they would invest in each option and how risky they perceived the investment. As the perceived risk of an investment option increased, people invested less money. However, participants did not identify the pyramid scheme as the most risky option and rated it as being no more or less risky than the stock market. In both Studies 1 and 2 about half of the participants were willing to invest in the pyramid scheme. In Studies 3 and 4, participants imagined they had invested money in a pyramid scheme and were recruiting new target investors. Two experimental conditions were devised. In the first condition, participants were not informed of the potential for monetary loss, whereas in the second condition, monetary loss was made explicit. Potential target investors varied in the closeness of their rated relationship to the participant. When in the early non-loss condition, participants selected targets that were close to themselves, but in the loss condition they favoured targets that were less close. Furthermore, when in the non-loss condition, participants persuaded those targets they were closer to invest, whereas in the loss condition they persuaded them not to invest. Studies 5 and 6 found that there was no difference in sensation seeking propensities or intellect between pyramid scheme investors and non-investors. One clear finding for the research is that many people did not select the pyramid scheme as the poor investment that it is, a result which indicates its present illegal status is justified.

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Childress, Lawrence. "The Loss-Processing Framework." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3896.

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The circumstances of responding to loss due to human death are among the most stressful experiences encountered in life. Although grief’s symptoms are typically considered essential to their gradual diminishment, possible negative impacts of complications related to grief are also well known, and have been associated with detriments to mental and physical health. Grief, however, can also generate transformative positive change. Thus, albeit ineludible, responding to loss is not uniformly experienced, expressed, or understood. It is also culturally-shaped, making attempts to define “normal” grief, as well as to label some grief “abnormal”—and to medicalize it—possibly problematic. Bereavement (the situation surrounding a death) and mourning (the publicly expressed response to loss due to death) are changing. Some of these changes (e.g., the increase in hospice care settings prior to deaths, and alterations in the ritual responses following all deaths—irrespective of their context) may have important implications for avoiding grief’s possible complications and for promoting its potential benefits. An improved alignment of grief theory, research, and practice is warranted; but theories of grief are diverse, and historically have not been empirically well-supported. This research articulates a new grief model, the loss-processing framework, featuring three dimensional components (perception, orientation, and direction). As a first step toward validation of the framework, also included is an empirical study examining retrospective descriptive reports of adult loss response relating to the first of these three dimensions (perception). As an interpretive, translational approach to understanding grief, the loss-processing framework may serve to positively impact grieving, health, and life quality.

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Behlen, Shawn Lee. "Anatomy of Loss." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278022/.

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Vose, Kimberly Anne. "A pretty tramp." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.

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Brooks, Dale Theodore. "Mourning the loss of self : a universal change process and class of therapeutic event." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30377.

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This study asserts that loss has been primarily focused on in terms of a set of reactions whose goals and content tend to be externally orientated. The thesis presented here states that the consideration of reaction to loss is incomplete without a detailed understanding of how the phenomenological self, on the intrapsychic level, is effected by loss. Consequently, this study takes a comprehensive look at how loss can effect this level of the phenomenological self, as well as the types of losses it can experience. An attempt is made to demonstrate that these losses to the phenomenological self can be identified and defined as a generic set of experiences, or, class of psychological events, which when taken together, this study considers as the loss of self. Given this class of psychological events, it is further claimed that mourning the loss of self, in different forms, is a universal change process. When dealt with in therapy this change process of mourning the loss of self is considered as a class of therapeutic event. An extensive literature review examines the basis for these claims, and provides the foundations for the presentation of a clinical model for mourning the loss of self. In this model, self, types of loss of self, and the process of mourning the loss of self, as relevant to this study, are defined. Utilization of this model for therapeutic purposes is demonstrated in case studies, and implications for research, as well as areas of application, are suggested.
Education, Faculty of
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
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Clark, Ruth M. "Loss, trauma and post-traumatic growth." Thesis, City University London, 2010. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/8706/.

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This study explored the lived experiences of twelve mental health care clinicians working therapeutically with suicidal clients and following client suicide. The participants included six mCounselling Psychologists, two Consultant Psychiatrists, three Community Psychiatric Nurses and a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist from an opportunity sample. The study took place within a National Health Service Mental Health Trust located in the South East of England. All the participants worked with suicidal clients. Nine had experienced the suicide of one or more clients. Employing interpretative phenomenological analysis, four key themes emerged: Being with suicidal clients, Impact of client death, Subsequent influential experiences and Evolving. Therapeutic intervention with suicidal clients emerged as being a source of anxiety for some participants, while others felt confident in wanting to explore the clients' concerns in depth. Following client suicide, shock, initial disbelief, fear, guilt and anger were apparent. Therapeutic relationships were influential in the participants' interpretations and understandings of the death. The attachment to the client was considered, by some, as being almost shameful, while others had tenuous therapeutic relationships. Some participants expressed potent feelings of grief arising from the loss. Past experience of bereavement by suicide emerged as shaping the views taken of suicidal clients and the responses to client suicide. Subsequent events, including involvement in an investigation into the cause of the death, were considered as being influential factors in the overall experience. Relationships with others which provided comfort and affirmation were considered to be a protective factor. While several participants gained support from clinical supervision, others felt that it did not meet their needs. An attempt was made to offer explanatory frameworks in order to situate the participants' experiences. Together with the effects of a loss, some participants' perceptions of failing as a competent professional added some support to the notion of threatened identity, due to rupture of the 'continuity' of professional identity. Transformative processes included gains, such as being considered as an 'expert.' The changes that are described are consistent with the reflexive practitioner position of Counselling Psychologists. The implications of the findings include Counselling Psychologists' involvement in the development of support systems. Finally, a suggested method of providing information to clinicians (Appendix 11) has been drafted as a result of the study outcomes.

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Rothaupt, Jeanne W. "A mother's portrait of loss and transcendence implications for bereavement theory /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1095430371&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Woodhouse, Lorna. "Psychosocial aspects of adjustment to limb loss." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335459.

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Chan, Wai-man Raymond. "Coping with loss : an exploratory study in Hong Kong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43895360.

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Chan, Wai-man Raymond, and 陳偉文. "Coping with loss: an exploratory study in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43895360.

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Jackson, Beth N. "The way of connection : journeys with the map of loss." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2007. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/260.

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This research is a journey our destination is an increased understanding of The Map of Loss (Snyder. 1999) and the potential it offers for connection and growth. The Map of Loss is a simple. easy to remember picture that explains complex psychological processes everyone goes through during life. Creating metaphors using pictures. creative activities and everyday language. The Map is a unique approach to understanding life. The Map presents a visual guide to the importance of balance in our lives. and provides us with an opportunity to realise connections between our actions. thoughts. feelings. and beliefs and the meaning we attach to our experiences. The Map is a means of understanding the process of change it is about making life real. about bringing together. linking and embracing our humanity. In undertaking this study I have utilised a mix of method. principles and practice, with the aim of providing an interpretive portrayal of lhe processes and adaptations of The Map. The purpose of the study was to explore the qualities of The Map of Loss. to identify the important features. aspects and theoretical underpinnings of The Map. which have not been written about before. The locus was on understanding why and how prolessionals (collaborators) were using The Map in various settings with differing populations.

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Wood, Michael D. "Role of k-opioid receptor agonist U-50,488H in consummatory successive negative contrast." Fort Worth, Tex. : Texas Christian University, 2006. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-07262006-161404/unrestricted/wood.pdf.

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Umbers, Doris. "What persists [poems] /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.

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Fragkiadaki, Evangelia. "Loss separation termination : a portfolio on endings." Thesis, City University London, 2008. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/8597/.

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This paper aims to explore gender differences in reactions to romantic relationship dissolutions. Within the body of research on relationship breakups, attachment theory is frequently mentioned. Empirical data on adult attachment styles and how they relate to gender differences and reactions to separations will also be explored. The issue of gender is prevalent in psychological literature. Such classification regarding reactions to relationship breakups is ambiguous and research should turn to individuals and relationships when exploring breakups.

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Tressler, Ann Elizabeth. "Ecstasy and Solitude: Reading and Self-Loss in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Psychology." Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104395.

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Thesis advisor: Rosemarie Bodenheimer
By focusing on the predominance of semi-conscious and unconscious states in both nineteenth-century British literature and psychology, this dissertation outlines the recognizable and multi-faceted relation existing between literature and psychology. Besides their obvious prevalence in sensation novels later in the period, these states, which I call ecstatic states, appeared in many of the most prominent, canonical novels of the nineteenth century. Prominent Victorian psychologists, such as Robert MacNish, John Abercrombie, James Cowles Prichard, and Forbes Winslow among others, connected ecstatic states, including fiction reading, to insanity, since these states exhibited an underlying component of self-loss in which the boundaries of the conscious self--time, will, and identity--dissolved. They were a troubling, yet common phenomenon of the mind that preoccupied the entire spectrum of middle class Victorian intellectual life--businessmen, novelists, literary critics, and psychologists--and these states are still fascinating neuroscientists today. This study shows how the Victorian medical practice of moral management sought to control these states by calling for the regulation and often the confinement of the imagination. What began as a method used solely in the insane asylum came to undergird much of Victorian life, including the many hostile reactions to the addictive and class-leveling powers of the novel. My dissertation emphasizes how certain Victorian novelists not only took up the role of psychologists themselves but also resisted and revised accepted psychology within their novels. Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot reacted in distinctive ways against the oppressive tenets of moral management. My readings of the novels Jane Eyre, Villette, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, The Mill on the Floss, and Romola show how it is the unrelenting regulation of the imagination that creates the various forms of mania and becomes ultimately devastating to the self. For these novelists, the dismantling of conscious thought and will, so alarming to the advocates of moral management, formed the crux of personal growth, moral choice, and ethical responsiveness
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2013
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English

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Rhodes, Valerie. "The grief process and reaction to job loss." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 1991. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/21070/.

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The aim of this study was to assess the applicability of the grief process to job loss. A pilot study of ten unemployed men was used to establish the structured interview and an appropriate form of content analysis, based on the components of grief derived from studies of bereavement. Other measures assessed the degree of attachment to the former job. This was followed by a cross-sectional study involving 60 men who had lost their jobs over the previous eight years. All of the individual components of grief were found among the sample and twenty seven percent of the sample fulfilled a criterion for a clear grief-like response. A longitudinal study involving 38 men extending over twelve months was then carried out so that changes over time could be investigated more thoroughly. In this study, too, all of the individual components of grief were found among the sample, and at the time of the first interview, twenty four percent of the men fulfilled the criterion for an unambiguous grief-like reaction. There was a high level of consistency in the results of the cross- sectional and longitudinal studies. Both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies provided evidence that some of the factors said to mediate the effects of bereavement had a similar influence on reactions to unemployment. In both, individual characteristics rather than length of time since job loss accounted for variation in the men's reactions and neither the patterns suggested by stage theories for bereavement nor for unemployment were reproduced.

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Black, Suzie. ""I just wasnae me anymore" : individual experiences of identity loss, identity negotiation, acceptance and 'adjustment' in acquired hearing loss." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3264.

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Objectives: There appears to be growing evidence that living with acquired hearing loss (AHL) results in people experiencing increased psychological distress. However, there is currently a dearth of research examining psychological adjustment to AHL. The available models assume that psychological adjustment to AHL is a sequential process. Personal accounts of AHL and evidence regarding other disabilities suggest that psychological adjustment is a far more complex process. Consequently, the present study aimed to explore individuals‟ experience of the process of psychological adjustment to AHL. In addition, individuals‟ understandings of the concept of adjustment were also explored. Method: Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with individuals who had acquired a moderate, severe or profound hearing loss in adulthood. These were transcribed and analysed for recurrent themes using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Results: Data analysis revealed that 9 super-ordinate themes represented participants‟ experience of adjustment to AHL. Findings indicated that AHL resulted in participants experiencing identity loss and changes in the dynamics of their relationships. Participants suggested that acceptance was a difficult but vital process that reduced psychological distress. Acceptance was hypothesised to be a multi-dimensional continuum along which participants moved back and forth. Identity negotiation appeared to be an important psychological process associated with acceptance. Participants believed that there was a “right” way to “adjust” but none felt their experiences matched this ideal. Consequently, it appeared that there was a discrepancy in the way participants and the researcher understood the concept of “adjustment.” Discussion: The findings suggested that psychological “adjustment” to AHL was a complex dual-directional process. Participant narratives appeared to be consistent with the recurrent model of acceptance and adjustment proposed by Newsome and Kendall (1996). It was suggested that findings regarding participants‟ perceptions of “adjustment” had important implications for clinical practice and these were described. It was recommended that future qualitative research should attempt to explore individuals‟ assumptions regarding “adjustment” in more detail.

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D'Aloisio, Michael J. "A Narrative Inquiry into Community College Student Experience with Loss and Grief| Can Loss Be Transformational from a Post-Jungian Perspective." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10683421.

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How are ancient mythological figures like Sisyphus, who rolls his rock ceaselessly up a mountain, and Kali, the fierce Hindu goddess associated with empowerment, relevant for students today who suffer from trauma caused by the unexpected death of a loved one? Mythological stories rise above history and look beyond the “turbulent flux of random events to uncover what is enduring in human experience and glimpse the core of reality” (Armstrong, 2005, p. 7). According to Jung (1955, 2009), touching upon the mythic and archetypal level of the unconscious has the power to bring forth tremendous energy into one’s life. This qualitative study explores student stories about loss and grief, using a post-Jungian mythopoeic lens to construct meaning and discover purpose.

Most of the research to date on loss and grief has focused on the classical task and phase models of bereavement centered on emotional expression; however, few studies (e.g., Bocchino, 2008; Trammell, 1999) have examined the bereavement experiences of students at an urban community college. For this inquiry, key concepts that prohibit students from mourning, such as complicated grief and disenfranchised grief, are presented and a critical review of several paradigmatic perspectives on grief theory shed light on where we are today.

Four students were invited to tell their story about the loss of a loved one. This study demonstrates that a Jungian psychological perspective offers a road map to better understand how a student’s mourning process can be interpreted as a potentially transformative event.

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Louie, Benedict L. "Application of a grief model and Buddhist psychology in dealing with grieving, loss, and suffering." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557739.

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This study researches the journey of transformative learning experiences of adult men and women who have adopted a positive attitude in dealing with challenging and life-threatening issues. By applying a Western grief model and the principles of “living the present moment” and “letting go” derived from Buddhist psychology, this study aims to identify ways to transform mental suffering and grieving into positive energy that may help to provide comfort to individuals in despair.

The research paradigm is transpersonal and the method of this study is narrative analysis. A combination of face-to-face and telephone interviews as well as email exchanges with eight individuals who shared their personal experiences in adopting a positive attitude in overcoming difficult situations were employed. These participants have battled and conquered their unique life-challenging situations.

The stories of these individuals document their challenges with grief and include insights learned from these experiences and the ways in which they transformed these experiences into catalysts for positive energy. Seven themes became evident and significant in their journey in coping with suffering, and paved the way for their transformational learning experiences. They are: a) Reaching acceptance, b) the importance of a support network, c) making meanings of suffering, d) impermanence, e) letting go of the past, f) living in the present moment, and g) spirituality. It is hoped that this transformational learning experience will enable other people from diverse demographic, professional, and cultural backgrounds to embrace a Western grief model in combination with Buddhist psychology to better cope with their loss or grieving, and help them to understand the opportunity for growth these life challenges can present.

Everyone experiences loss and difficult challenges in the course of a lifetime. How we view and react to them determines the effect they have on the rest of our lives. This study will contribute to the need for more research in this area by asking the following question: “How do actions derived from Buddhist principles help to alleviate suffering among people facing challenges of change?”

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Whitehead, Rachel. "Psychological distress in women following early pregnancy loss." Thesis, University of Hull, 2010. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3474.

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This portfolio thesis comprises of three main parts. Part one is a systematic literature review entitled, "Response to & Factors Associated with Coping in Early Pregnancy Loss – A systematic Review of the Literature." Part two of this portfolio presents an empirical paper based on the research project designed and carried out by the author. This is entitled, "An Exploration of Psychological Distress in Women Following Ectopic Pregnancy." The purpose of this study was to investigate levels of psychological distress within this client group and explore women's experiences of having had Ectopic pregnancy. Part three comprises of the appendices.

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Crawford, Rochelle. "The relationships between psychological factors and weight loss." Thesis, University of Hull, 2010. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3475.

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This portfolio has three parts: Part one is a systematic literature review in which the theoretical, conceptual and empirical literature relating to the impact of initial weight-related expectations on weight-loss and related outcomes is explored. Part two is an empirical paper exploring the relationships between self-efficacy and illness cognitions with the outcome variables of weight-loss, physical and mental health status, and individual perception of outcome. Part three is comprised of the appendices.

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Speer, Rachel L. "Coping with romantic relationship dissolution." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq27380.pdf.

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McGillis, Shaun Krause. "If You Look Into The Cloud, Sometimes You Can Hear The Silence There." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1319.

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The following thesis is a collection of original poems written by Shaun Krause McGillis under the direction of professors Michele Glazer, Primus St. John, and adjunct professor B. T. Shaw during the course of Shaun Krause McGillis's gradate studies at Portland State University.

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McLaurin, Joan. "Paternal attachment and loss of self in late adolescent females." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1782.

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Kint, Esther Lea. "Women’s experiences of pregnancy loss: An interpretative phenomenological analysis." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2015. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1723.

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Over the past three decades, research has proliferated on the incidence of grief severity following pregnancy loss, with many research studies citing the existence of ‘complicated’ and ‘unresolved’ grief. It is argued that this emphasis on grief severity has overshadowed other aspects of the bereavement experience that might differ from grief as it has been defined. Understanding the experience of loss in pregnancy instead of categorising it, would allow for new and varied understandings of the meaning women attribute to their experience of losing a baby. Furthermore, paying attention to women’s interpretations and understandings of pregnancy loss provides valuable insight into care that is perceived as meaningful and supportive. Utilising interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), a qualitative research method, the current study explored the experience of pregnancy loss among nineteen bereaved women with a history of miscarriage or stillbirth. The findings revealed that bereaved women struggle with a unique, complex and pervasive bereavement experience, that is largely unacknowledged and misunderstood. Women conveyed a strong desire for others to acknowledge and validate their loss, and to facilitate rather than suppress their grief. In addition, women identified a need to remain connected to their deceased baby, and for others to recognise the profound and enduring nature of their grief. Perceptions of support were identified as a critical catalyst in determining women’s bereavement experiences, and revealed both positive and negative attributions of professional and social support. In particular, women identified a need for increased public awareness of pregnancy loss, more sensitive and empathic care, continued support to facilitate contact with the baby, improved continuity of care to support grieving, and enhanced support in the subsequent pregnancy to assist with anxiety management. The implications of these findings for future research and practice are discussed. The study provides a context within which women’s experiences can not only be recognised as widespread and rational emotional processes following pregnancy loss, but that those suffering can also receive appropriate, specialised professional support and social acceptance by the wider community.

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Bradvica, Marie E. "Personality and Identity Formation in the Context of Family and Loss." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/983.

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Danely, Jason Allen. "Departure and return abandonment, memorial and aging in Japan /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3324442.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed October 3, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-391).

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Thomadaki, Olga. "How mothers experience personal growth after a perinatal loss." Thesis, City University London, 2012. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/3008/.

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In the UK, babies are considered stillborn when they are born dead after the 24th week of gestation. Death within the first four weeks of life is defined as a neonatal death. Both stillbirths and neonatal deaths comprise perinatal deaths. This type of bereavement constitutes a traumatic loss and although there is a plethora of research focusing on the resulting parental psychopathology, research on adaptive grief resolution and posttraumatic growth is scarce. Qualitative methodologies exploring perinatal bereavement and posttraumatic growth from a perspective of counselling psychology are absent in the literature although repeatedly invited by theorists. To date, only one quantitative study has explored the phenomenon of posttraumatic growth on bereaved parents after a perinatal loss (Büchi, et al., 2007). Moreover, the available qualitative literature on bereaved mothers after a perinatal loss is conducted by disciplines other than psychology and has largely focused on birth, hospital practices, burial ceremonies and the initial grief reactions. Thus, this project aims to address psychology’s relative neglect of the topic by exploring qualitatively “How mothers experience personal growth after a perinatal loss”. The research methodology employed was Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Eight semi-structured interviews with women who had lost their firstborn baby perinatally were conducted. The analysis revealed four super-ordinate themes; the first and the second mainly present the traumatic quality of this type of bereavement and the multiple losses involved. The third super-ordinate theme presents all the coping mechanisms that were activated by participants in order to work through their loss; while the fourth presents the positive changes that came as a consequence of the experience and their efforts to psychologically survive that loss. The research findings suggest that following this traumatic loss mothers, struggling with distress and anguish, can also experience positive transformations. The possible role of counselling psychologists and psychotherapists in this journey of personal positive transformation of bereaved mothers is explored.

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Bolsover, Denise. "Information and emotional support post-miscarriage assessing the needs of women and their partners /." Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2008. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=26461.

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Haeussler, Doyle L. "Chasing losses : a book of poems." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1260489.

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This work presents a collection of creative verse written in both classical forms, e.g., sonnet, pantoum, haiku, tanka, sestina, prose poem, and blank verse, as well as open form pieces. Examples of both narrative and lyrical verse are represented, with an emphasis on the narrative craft as well as an exploration of the lyrical forms in the context of contemporary and historical themes. While the theme of loss, in all its aspects, is present throughout, it is present as a geist rather than as a dictum. These poems have as their subject matter a wide range of experiences, both imaginative and commonplace, both familiar and magical. Mundane situations are elevated to the level of emotional consideration, and the overwhelming is reduced to familiar and intimate terms. These poems deal largely with the resilience of the human spirit and the buoyancy of hope despite the roiling seas of uncertainty and the unpredictable winds of change.
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Bubbico, Amy L. "Praxis for loss counseling from a Wesleyan-Arminian perspective spiritual formation through disenfranchised grief /." Available from ProQuest, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/pqdweb?index=0&sid=3&srchmode=2&vinst=PROD&fmt=6&startpage=-1&clientid=10355&vname=PQD&RQT=309&did=1631157451&scaling=FULL&ts=1263925748&vtype=PQD&rqt=309&TS=1263925753&clientId=10355.

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Annunziato, Rachel A. Lowe Michael R. "Taking action to lose weight: toward an understanding of individual differences /." Philadelphia, Pa. : Drexel University, 2004. http://dspace.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/378.

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Yuen, On-lai Anna. "Insight loss in schizophrenic outpatients : relationship with coping and delusion." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/210331.

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Gaffney, Joel Scott. "The Relational Injury of Paternal Loss: An Exploration of Grief Using Experiential Personal Construct Psychology." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1500650428556315.

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Hickman, Carrie J. L. "Weight Loss Surgery Maintenance and Psychosocial Development: A Narrative Perspective." ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1091.

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Bariatric surgery is not the panacea it was once thought to be for weight loss. Due to patient noncompliance issues, many weight loss surgery patients are relapsing and regaining the significant amounts of weight that bariatric surgery had initially helped them to lose. This failure is costly monetarily, psychologically, and medically to both the patient and to society. Using the narratives of 32 post-weight loss surgery patients, this narrative study explored: (a) whether Erikson's psychosocial stages of development occur after weight loss surgery, (b) whether successful patients (defined as those who are able to maintain their weight loss long term) have successfully navigated Erikson's stages, and (c) whether these patients formed new identities in the process. Recursive analysis and text analysis revealed noticeable trends toward developmental progress among participants after weight loss surgery, with regard to all stages in Erikson's psychosocial developmental theory. This trend suggests that participants are experiencing developmental changes after surgery and that participants who have successfully navigated psychosocial stages are at least beginning to build new identities. These findings may indicate the need for social changes in the way clinicians guide patients through the weight loss surgery process; these findings may also inspire the creation of programs that address developmental milestones, which may increase successes after weight loss surgery.

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Goodby, Carol-Sue McDonald 1958. "THE EFFECT OF COMPETITION ON WEIGHT LOSS AT THE WORKSITE." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276670.

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McAuliffe, Christine. "Optimism and loss the experiences of children in foster care /." Connect to this title online, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1166033063.

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Servaty, Heather L. "Identity Status and Adjustment to Loss Among Adolescents." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278146/.

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The purpose of the present investigation was to explore the relationship of the adolescent experience of parental death to the variables of identity formation, adjustment, and coping. The inclusion of adolescents who had experienced parental divorce and those who had not experienced either loss condition allowed for group comparisons.

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Anderson, Kalin A. "Implicit models of the biological bases of weight loss." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/341.

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Huepenbecker, Valerie Anne. "A time to grieve children and loss /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2005. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2005/2005huepenbeckerv.pdf.

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Ryan, Kelsea M. "Intentional weight loss among healthy women| Behavior patterns and psychological concerns." Thesis, San Jose State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1583511.

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Although there is an extensive literature on women who are overweight, obese, or suffer from eating disorders, less is known about women who are at a healthy weight yet who are attempting to lose weight. To learn more about the psychological characteristics and behavioral patterns of such women, this study analyzed data from the American College Health Association's National College Health Assessment (ACHA-NCHA-II). We compared these women with two groups of women: (a) those who are at a healthy weight but who are not attempting to lose weight and (b) overweight women who are attempting to lose weight. We employed numerous variables including BMI, depression, anxiety, academic performance, exercise, and diet strategies in these comparisons. In terms of psychological health and weight-related behavior, healthy women attempting weight loss are more similar to overweight women who are attempting weight loss than they are to healthy women who are not attempting to lose weight. We found comparatively high rates of depression, anxiety, and academic difficulty among our target population. Based on our findings and the relevant literature, we recommend that university health officials provide weight-related educational information to female students in an effort to promote psychological well-being and healthy weight practices.

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Anderson, Roxanne M. "A Retrospective Multiple Case Study of Workplace Wellness Programs Empowering Employee Weight Loss." Thesis, Capella University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10932413.

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Workplace wellness programs (WWPs) aim to curtail health-care expenditures while increasing employees’ health and wellness. However, WWPs are not effective at helping employees affected by obesity, and participants may be penalized with higher health care costs for not meeting biometric markers. The disease burden to treat the related health conditions for those with obesity cost $1.42 trillion in 2014 and continues to increase. This retrospective multiple case study examined seven companies and 10 employees within the theoretical framework of positive psychology and global well-being models to identify themes. The employees were exemplary cases that lost 3% BMI or 10 pounds of weight and kept it off for six months or more while utilizing their WWP. Eight themes emerged including meaningful relationships, vitality, positive emotions, resilience, optimism, confidence, trust/faith, and hope. The eight themes provided insights for a unique way to integrate and examine positive psychological capital and positive organizational health as a strategy for long-term well-being, weight loss, and health in WWPs. The top four themes identified extrinsic shared motivational constructs that could be identified and strengthened by values in action and positive psychology interventions to promote WWP engagement and success. An organization supporting a health and wellness culture can benefit over time with healthier, happier, and productive employees. The lower four themes offered awareness of intrinsic motivation and self-concepts for deeper meaning within the context of weight loss and maintenance. This research presents a template (Weight and Wellness Mindset) to organize positive psychological variables that may be examined through quantitative research. The positive psychological constructs may be measurable to promote hedonic and eudemonic well-being and impact employees’ engagement and success in WWPs.

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Milwain, Elizabeth J. "An evaluation of memory loss in old age and Alzheimer's disease." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312195.

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Hall, Alice Everly. "AM/BITS." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4004.

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This collection represents work produced between September 2015 and April 2017. A phantom limb is characterized not by what is absent but by the wound that created its loss--the haunting of a pain, and the confusion caused by its non-presence. These poems shift and shutter around their phantom limbs, tracking the wounds split open by grief, the physicality of time’s passing, and the mind’s inability to reconcile its own impermanence. The poems hope to resist the lyric while simultaneously imploding form, confronting the mind’s relationship with the natural and digital worlds it inhabits and is informed by. Celestial bodies and human bodies share a panic of impermanence here––time is as unknowable but also as physical as star stuff. In their disfluencies and insistences grappling toward some kind of "feeling," these poems investigate what it means to live and survive a life characterized by loss in its various shapes and forms.

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Bachman, Robert Lee 1947. "A Psychosocial Comparison Between Weight Loss Maintainers and Weight Loss Non-Maintainers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330956/.

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Psychosocial differences between weight loss maintainers and weight loss non-maintainers were compared at least one year after reaching a medically approved weight goal through a medically supervised weight loss program. Research questions addressed differences between groups on the dimensions of somatization, obsessive/compulsive issues, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, ability to resolve past emotional issues, social interpersonal relationships, and tolerance of ambiguity. The all-female sample consisted of maintainers of weight loss (N=30), non-maintainers (N=33), psychotherapy maintainers (N=14), and psychotherapy non-maintainers (N=ll). Research instruments administered were the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised, Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior, Personal Orientation Inventory, and Budner Scale for Tolerance/Intolerance of Ambiguity. To determine differences between groups, a t test was performed on data relating to the maintaining and non-maintaining groups. An analysis of variance was performed on data related to the maintaining, non-maintaining, psychotherapy maintaining, and psychotherapy non-maintaining groups. An intercorrelation matrix was completed for all variables. Non-maintainers of weight loss had significantly more difficulty with somatic problems as indicated in the results of both the t test and the analysis of variance (p < .009, p < .02, respectively). Non-maintainers expressed more complaints which focused on cardio-vascular, gastrointestinal, respiratory, and somatic equivalents of anxiety (headaches, pain, discomfort of the gross musculature). An analysis of variance showed non-maintainers (p < .05) to be significantly less effective in resolving past emotional issues than maintainers, psychotherapy maintainers, and psychotherapy non-maintainers. Non-maintainers were more burdened by guilt, regrets, and resentments from the past. Results of the analysis of variance indicated that psychotherapy maintainers (p < .03) were more socially adjusted than maintainers, non-maintainers, and psychotherapy non-maintainers. Inclusion and control subscales characterized psychotherapy maintainers to be more socially adaptable and flexible. They assumed responsibility without support of others and were less burdened with fears of helplessness and incompetence.

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Chohan, Gagandeep Kaur. "Developing a psychological understanding of complex loss." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6914/.

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This thesis was submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Doctor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Birmingham. The thesis comprises of two volumes. Volume I is concerned with developing a psychological understanding of the psychological impacts and experiences of individuals’ affected by complex grief. It contains three chapters: a meta-ethnography, an empirical paper and a public dissemination document. The meta-ethnography critically reviews qualitative literature of couple’s experiences of a subsequent pregnancy and parenting following a pregnancy loss through miscarriage, stillbirth and/or neonatal death, and provides a higher-level interpretation of these findings. The empirical paper uses Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to conduct an exploration of the lived experience of family members bereaved by heroin overdose. The findings were explored in relation to their applicability to existing models and theories of bereavement. The public dissemination document provides a brief summary using simple language of the first and second chapters, to be accessible to a wider audience. Volume II consists of four clinical practice reports and a summary of an oral presentation describing clinical work undertaken on clinical placements.

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Jensen, Melissa A. "Internet-based motivational interviewing: Factors influencing the impact of a brief motivational intervention on college students’ awareness of weight-related risk." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1438208782.

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Hickman, Carrie J. L. "Weight Loss Surgery Maintenance and Psychosocial Development| A Narrative Perspective." Thesis, Walden University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3601345.

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Bariatric surgery is not the panacea it was once thought to be for weight loss. Due to patient noncompliance issues, many weight loss surgery patients are relapsing and regaining the significant amounts of weight that bariatric surgery had initially helped them to lose. This failure is costly monetarily, psychologically, and medically to both the patient and to society. Using the narratives of 32 post-weight loss surgery patients, this narrative study explored: (a) whether Erikson's psychosocial stages of development occur after weight loss surgery, (b) whether successful patients (defined as those who are able to maintain their weight loss long term) have successfully navigated Erikson's stages, and (c) whether these patients formed new identities in the process. Recursive analysis and text analysis revealed noticeable trends toward developmental progress among participants after weight loss surgery, with regard to all stages in Erikson's psychosocial developmental theory. This trend suggests that participants are experiencing developmental changes after surgery and that participants who have successfully navigated psychosocial stages are at least beginning to build new identities. These findings may indicate the need for social changes in the way clinicians guide patients through the weight loss surgery process; these findings may also inspire the creation of programs that address developmental milestones, which may increase successes after weight loss surgery.

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White, Marjorie Anne. "An Integrated Approach to Theories of Loss and Adaptation to Disability." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5143.

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Many theories have been proposed that attempt to explain response and adaptation to loss. However, no one theory has been shown to be universally applicable to all individuals suffering a loss. This paper presents an overview of many of these theories, paying special attention to the relationship between the theories of loss and adaptation to disability. The theories include the psychoanalytic model of loss, stage models of adaptation to loss, the value change theory of acceptance of loss, chronic sorrow, the cognitive adaptation theory, the stress and coping model, developmental theory, and the existential perspective on loss and grief. The possible influence that factors such as age, gender, culture and variables specific to disability may have on loss are also discussed. A new conceptualization of loss is introduced that tries to integrate many of the key ideas of these theories. This integrated approach takes into account the unique situation of each person, emphasizing the interaction between environmental and personal factors in adapting to loss. The model contends that due to the uniqueness of the individual, to the many possible combinations of environmental and psychological factors, and to the nature of the loss itself, any one or combination of loss theories could be in effect for any single loss. The intent of this thesis is to encourage the reader to become familiar with different perspectives on the subject of loss and grief to help select the method that best fits the individual situation of the person seeking counseling.

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Pirgova, Luba. "Images of electricity : perceptions of loss and semiotic communication of risk." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/97588/.

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Electricity is a tool used by people and the basis for life in a technologically advanced world. From production to consumption, electricity is an important part of, and has a great impact on, everyday life; and yet despite its prevalence, electricity remains a largely unseen phenomenon of both nature and nurture. This thesis is situated in the social sciences' conceptual context and will explore to what extent electricity is not only a part of our lives, but also how and what it changes in relation to our perceptions of the world. The particular focus of this research is on the images of electricity as created by individuals but circulated in and interpreted by communities and societies. As electricity is unseen, all communication regarding energy and electricity (just like any other abstract idea) is achieved primarily through the use of images (including visual, narrative and performative types of images). There is a great variety of theoretical models that can enable in-depth analysis of these images and reveal human perceptions of electricity as well as the influence these perceptions can have on human decision-making processes, behaviors, and social interactions. Images produced in times of turmoil due to a catalyst event are particularly poignant at excavating the unseen and unconsidered and provide opportunities for study, which cannot be conducted at other times. In this, thesis two case studies are presented and analyzed, namely Hurricane Sandy (2012) and Bulgarian Energy Protests (2013). Specifically, the emphasis is on interpreting images from these two cases as signs - iconic signs and/or symbols - and on the consequent transformations of their elements when created and used in different social contexts. The analysis of the empirical data is twofold: first thematic and content analyses followed by second, a semiotic analysis. The semiotic approach to studying images of electricity has not been attempted so far as extensively as it could – or indeed, should - be and it is used in this thesis to offer an alternative way of approaching electricity research and a different understanding of how electricity can shape or influence our views, values, and actions. In other words, the major focus of the study is on images of electricity produced in times of turmoil, which are further analyzed as signs that are integrated into communication between individuals, within communities, and in a society and understood through the use of shared codes and contextual knowledge/experience.

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