Meaning reconstruction & the experience of loss.

By R. Neimeyer. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Crystal L. Park
2. R. Neimeyer
3. R. Tedeschi
4. L. Calhoun
5. T. Schnell
6. A. Cann
7. J. Gillies
8. J. Currier

In General Health Professions

1. Crystal L. Park
2. R. Neimeyer
3. T. Schnell
4. J. Gillies
5. J. Currier
6. D. Larson
7. R. Tedeschi
8. L. Calhoun

Citations in the corpus

• Roles for Psychologists in End-of-Life Care: Emerging Models of Practice. (2003, positive): “For example, older theories of grieving as a relatively predictable series of emotional stages have been seriously questioned and replaced by theories emphasizing issues of meaning (Neimeyer, 2001; Stroebe et al., 2001; Worden, 2002).”
• Bereavement theory: recent developments in our understanding of grief and bereavement (2014, background): “There are a wide range of publications which provide detailed information on clinical interventions from constructivist (Neimeyer, 2001), cognitive (Malkinson, 2007) and family systems perspectives (Nadeau, 1998; Kissane & Bloch, 2002 Kissane & Parnes, 2014).”
• Mourning and Meaning (2002, background): “They learned to appreciate their loved ones more and were confident in speaking with others who were very ill. Similar identity reconstruction and personal growth has been reported by bereaved college students contending with a broad range of losses (Neimeyer, 2001c).”
• Making sense of the meaning literature: an integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events. (2010, background): “…adopted for the present review,1 is drawn from the work of a number of influential theorists (e.g., Bonanno & Kaltman, 1999; Davis, Wortman, Lehman, & Silver, 2000; Janoff-Bulman, 1992; Joseph & Linley, 2005; Lepore & Helgeson, 1998; Neimeyer, 2001; Taylor, 1983; Thompson & Janigian, 1988).”
• An Examination of Posttraumatic Growth and Posttraumatic Depreciation: Two Exploratory Studies (2008, background): “The assumption here, reflecting the data on what individuals describe from their experience with crisis and loss (Neimeyer, 2001), is that persons can experience both growth and depreciation in the same area, so asking for ratings that reflect both growth and depreciation, in the same domain,…”
• TARGET ARTICLE: "Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence" (2004, positive): “Supportive others can aid in posttraumatic growth by providing a way to craft narratives about the changes that have occurred, and by offering perspectives that can be integrated into schema change (Neimeyer, 2001; Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996).”
• Meaning Reconstruction in the First Two Years of Bereavement: The Role of Sense-Making and Benefit-Finding (2006, background): “Clinical Implications Consistent with other work (Currier et al., 2006; Davis et al., 1998; Davis, Wortman, Lehman, & Silver, 2000; Neimeyer, 1998, 2001), the present results suggest that bereaved persons who find a measure of meaning in the loss experience seem to fare better in the grieving…”
• The Blessings and the Curses of Filial Piety on Dignity at the End of Life: Lived Experience of Hong Kong Chinese Adult Children Caregivers (2012, background): “…through which the processes of introspection and articulation served to generate renewed meanings that illuminate the concept of dignity at the end of life (Leung & Chan, 2006), in keeping with a meaning reconstruction approach to loss and transition (Neimeyer, 2001; Neimeyer & Sands, 2011).”
• Examining the Assumptive World Views of Parents Bereaved by Accident, Murder, and Illness (2004, background): “Neimeyer (2001) focuses on the concept of Narrative Truth, or the power of storytelling, to illustrate how the bereaved possess a desire to share their stories of grief.”
• Qualitative bereavement research: incongruity between the perspectives of participants and research ethics boards (2010, background): “Evolving theories of grief are consistently moving toward recognizing the individuality inherent in the experience, instead of outlining universal themes or pre-determined stages (Neimeyer, 2001).”
• Compassion at the counter: Service providers and bereaved consumers (2006, background): “Hand in hand with this functional impairment comes a powerful urge to restore meaning and sense in the face of what is perceived to be a meaningless and senseless loss (Neimeyer, 2001).”