Giving Meaning to Grief: The Role of Rituals and Stories in Coping with Sudden Family Loss
In this dissertation, I seek to better understand the sensemaking process among surviving family members after a tragic loss of a teenage or young adult child. Using social constructionism (Gergen, 1991) as a theoretical framework, I focused on how meanings of loss are constructed through the use of...
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Scholar Commons
2011
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2996 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4191&context=etd |