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Annotated Bibliography on the Concept of Grief

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Annotated Bibliography on the Concept of Grief

Rogalla, K. B. (2020). Anticipatory grief, proactive coping, social support, and growth:

Exploring positive experiences of preparing for loss. OMEGA - Journal of Death and

Dying, 81(1), 107–129. https://doi.org/10.1177/0030222818761461

The intention of this piece was to examine the effects of various methods for assisting

individuals in their mourning processes as well as how these methods can promote personal

development both throughout and after the period of grief. The author used surveys with

inquiries regarding demographics and three empirical instruments to conduct this investigation.

These measures comprised "The Proactive Coping Inventory," which assesses how people cope

with stressful situations. The other is a tool called "The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory" that

revealed the constructive adjustments made following traumatic experiences. The author utilized

"The Hogan Grief Reaction Checklist" as the final tool to evaluate the applicability of the grief to

one's own development concept in anticipatory situations. The findings from assessments and

empirical instruments provided information on practical methods for assisting people while they

grieve. A varied assortment of 120 grownup participants, ranging in age from 18 to 96, was

involved in the investigation; all of them had a close contact with a relative who was suffering

from an incurable illness. The startling results demonstrated a considerable prevalence of

posttraumatic development and interpersonal progress among people who had deliberately

planned for the certainty of death. The study participants' adaptive coping techniques and the

critical role that social assistance played in encouraging their progress both had an impact on

these favorable results.

With regard to the article's utility, the researcher holds a PhD, an MS, and a BA in

psychology and coaching in addition to her professional counseling credentials. She has worked

as a counselor for eleven years in a variety of situations and she is presently a teaching assistant
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at Indiana University South Bend. The article's placement in a recognized electronic database,

which was located using a search on the phrase "grief," increases its authority. This research did

have certain restrictions, though. External validity was constrained due to the difficulty in

selecting subjects at randomness due to the lack of criteria for anticipating grievers. Furthermore,

considering participants were not required to describe any specific ailments, extrapolation cannot

be made because various illnesses might cause differing degrees of grief. Nonetheless, the

observations serve a purpose for the healthcare field since they give specialists important

information and understanding for dealing with impending grief in a range of people. Moreover,

the article emphasizes the need of helping people create robust networks of support and good

coping mechanisms in order to help them get ready for grieving prior to and following death.

Lavorgna, B. F., & Hutton, V. E. (2019). Grief severity: A comparison between human and

companion Animal Death. Death Studies, 43(8), 521–526.

https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2018.1491485

This article focused on the effects of loss on people, especially the demise of a family

member and the losing of a cherished pet. Fifty Australian persons of every demographic

participated in the investigation, of whom thirty-five had experienced the death of a family

member and fifteen, that of a pet. In order to evaluate the subjects' grief behaviors and

functioning, assessments were employed which comprised assessments of interpersonal

assistance, connectedness to the deceased, open-ended questions regarding the losing experience,

and the extended mourning disorder assessment. The Australian College of Applied Psychology-

affiliated researchers who carried out the investigation discovered no discernible distinctions

between the two types of losses in terms of the intensity of the sorrow experienced, the level of

emotional assistance received, or the degree of attachment to the dead. The article's presence in a
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web-based repository for academic study on grief lends credence to its reliability. Nevertheless,

there are drawbacks, such as the limited sample scope, which limited dataset examination, and

the cross-sectional methodology, which only recorded one particular interaction with the

subjects. The investigation's conclusions are relevant to practitioners and caregivers because they

highlight the need to reconsider common misconceptions about grief caused by the passing away

of pet companions and acknowledge the intense degree of grieving it can elicit. Considering this

element can help healthcare professionals manage grieving patients more precisely.