Bereavement and the DSM5

Close personal relationships are very important in our lives. Our closest relationships help us regulate our bodies and minds and contribute importantly to our sense of wellbeing (Hofer, 1984; Mikulincer, Orbach, & Iavnieli, 1998; Sbarra & Hazan, 2008). Losing a close attachment is usually one of the most difficult experiences we ever have. Bereavement often leaves us dazed and confused about how to understand the loss and navigate the future. Acute grief takes us out of our ongoing life and focuses our attention on our deceased loved one. Grief is finely tuned to each loss situation with a pattern and course that is unique to each person and each relationship.     

Schließung von Schulen — Chancen für schulische Innovationsprozesse

Closing down schools — chances of scholar innovative processes. Coaching as support of merging processesThe author discusses chances and risks of processes of school merging processes as an internal coach of a school board. Conditions for success are named for various levels of hierarchy in the school system. This includes an support by means of coaching and supervision.     

Multi-objective allocation: A data-free approach

In urban planning and other fields a number of apparently different problems have two features in common. First, a fixed total of a resource is to be split among several claimants. Second, different interested parties have differing views as to what constitutes an optimum allocation. We present methods for the quantification of preferences and for the production of a compromise optimum. The methods have the merit of being problem independent and sparing in their demands for data and for specialised computer software.     

Exploring the role of experiential avoidance from the perspective of attachment theory and the dual process model

Avoidance can be adaptive and facilitate the healing process of acute grief or it can be maladaptive and hinder this same process. Maladaptive cognitive or behavioral avoidance comprises the central feature of the condition of complicated grief. This article explores the concept of experiential avoidance as it applies to bereavement, including when it is adaptive when it is problematic. Adaptive avoidance is framed using an attachment theory perspective and incorporates insights from the dual process model (DPM). An approach to clinical management of experiential avoidance in the syndrome of complicated grief is included.