SEARCHING FOR THE MEANING OF MEANING: GRIEF THERAPY AND THE PROCESS OF RECONSTRUCTION

By R. Neimeyer. Death Studies, 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions

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Prolonged grief disorder: Diagnostic, assessment, and treatment considerations. (2014, background): “Consequently, there is a growing consensus in the field that interventions aimed at redressing normative grief reactions are contraindicated (e.g., Bonanno & Lilienfeld, 2008; Neimeyer, 2000).”
Loss, trauma, and human resilience: have we underestimated the human capacity to thrive after extremely aversive events? (2008, background): “In summarizing these findings, Neimeyer (2000) concluded that “such interventions are typically ineffective, and perhaps even deleterious, at least for persons experiencing a normal bereavement” (p. 541).”
What has become of grief counseling? An evaluation of the empirical foundations of the new pessimism. (2007, methodology): “Deterioration Effects in Grief Counseling Probably the major impetus for the rash of cautionary messages regarding bereavement interventions has been the striking finding, first published by Neimeyer (2000), that such treatments may be harmful.”
Mourning and Meaning (2002, background): “Implicit in this account is an expanded view of the concept of meaning, one that transcends the often limiting discourse that equates it with cognitions in the minds of individuals (Neimeyer, 2000).”
Meaning Reconstruction in the First Two Years of Bereavement: The Role of Sense-Making and Benefit-Finding (2006, background): “meaning” (Neimeyer, 2000), particularly around the way in which these interact in adaptation to loss.”
Resilience to loss and chronic grief: a prospective study from preloss to 18-months postloss. (2002, background): “In fact, in a recent meta-analysis, Fortner, Neimeyer, Anderson, and Berman (reported in Neimeyer, 2000) found that grief treatments produced only a small positive effect, and that an alarming 38% of those receiving grief treatment actually got worse relative to notreatment controls.”
Psychological Treatments That Cause Harm (2007, background): “Neimeyer (2000) reported the results of a meta-analysis of 23 RCTs of grief therapy.”
The myths of coping with loss revisited. (2001, background): “Fortner and Neimeyer (cited in Neimeyer, 2000) located all scientifically adequate outcome evaluations of grief therapy published between 1975, when the first such studies appeared, and 1998. Of these 23 studies, grief therapy was provided by professional therapists in 19 of them and by nonprofessio”
Identifying Highly Influential Nodes in the Complicated Grief Network (2016, positive): “In regard to the latter, this strong association is consistent with the emphasis placed on restoration of meaning in theories of natural grief resolution (Stroebe & Schut, 1999) and in prominent psychotherapies for CG (e.g., Neimeyer, 2000; Shear et al., 2005).”
Loss, Grief, and the Search for Significance: Toward a Model of Meaning Reconstruction in Bereavement (2006, background): “Other forms of “sense,” to which the bereaved tend to turn their attention after the urgency of making attributions dissipates, (Davis et al., 1998; Davis et al., 2000; Neimeyer, 2000), concern larger worldviews that maintain order in their lives such as, “Why did this occur? Why did it happen to me”
A Literature Review of Western Bereavement Theory: From Decathecting to Continuing Bonds (2007, background): “Neimeyer (2003) also questioned the past theoretical assumptions because of the incongruence of counselors’ experiences with their clients.”