Culture and grief in families Book Section
| Authors: | Kissane, D. W.; Boucher, B.; Del Gaudio, F. |
| Editors: | Kissane, D. W.; Parnes, F. |
| Article/Chapter Title: | Culture and grief in families |
| Title Series: | Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement |
| Abstract: | (from the chapter) Although ethnology points to the biological underpinnings of grief, the major determinant of the form of expression of grief-shaped by the ethnic background, social traditions, and norms-is culture. It often guides the manner of response, whether in facial reaction, demeanor, clothing, customs, or behaviors. Cultural sensitivity is therefore an essential clinical orientation in supporting and seeking to understand the bereaved. It always behooves the clinician to make sense of any cultural dimension of mourning. This maxim is never truer than when one turns to the family the significant social group that is likely to be the major transmitter of cultural norms. In this chapter, we review some major cultures and consider from the family perspective, some key values and traditions into which clinicians need insight. We acknowledge an inability to deal comprehensively with each and every culture that is included and an inability to include every prominent culture. Rather we seek to illustrate the importance of the family's culture to therapeutic work, offering a glimpse of the manner in which it is woven into the fabric of each family's story. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Keywords: | grief; families; culture; values; traditions; cultural sensitivity; mourning |
| Book Title: | Bereavement Care for Families |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-63737-4 |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| Publication Place: | New York, NY |
| Date Published: | 2014-01-01 |
| Start Page: | 107 |
| End Page: | 122 |
| Language: | English |
| ACCESSION: | Book: 2014-02363-008 |
| PROVIDER: | Ovid Technologies |
| PROVIDER: | psycinfo |
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| Notes: | Book Chapter: 8 -- xxiii, 295 -- Source: PsycINFO |
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