Time changes everything - or does it? : the grief and frustrations of adventitiously visually impaired adults

• Main Author: Murray, Shirley Anne
• Other Authors: McKay, Robert Charles
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: 155.916; Blind > Psychology; Loss (Psychology); Vision disorders > Psychological aspects; People with visual disabilities > Psychology
• Online Access: Murray, Shirley Anne (1998) Time changes everything - or does it? : the grief and frustrations of adventitiously visually impaired adults, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17548>; http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17548

This research focuses on the grief and emotional reactions, especially frustration, of adventitiously visually impaired adults following loss of sight. The traditional grief-following loss theory with the assumption of a time-limited linear grief process, accompanied by diminishing emotions and culminating with acceptance and adjustment has been challenged. Chronic grief assumes a recurrent and continuous grief process, accompanied by increased emotions associated with continual losses related to a chronic loss, such as visual impairment. The question of whether there is a relation between length of time of adventitious visual impairment and the healing affect of time on grief and frustrations has been examined by quantitative and qualitative investigations. The answer to the question of whether time changes and heals everything is not necessarily the case. As always there are more questions than answers, and this research provides further insight into the real world of adventitious visual impairment. === Psychology === M.A. (Psychology)