Factors Affecting Children’s Adjustment to the Death of a Parent: The Social Work Professional’s Viewpoint

This study investigated factors affecting the adjustment of parentally bereaved children by reviewing existing literature and comparing it to observations made by professional social workers. Interviewees had between 1 1/2 and 22 years of experience in counseling bereaved children. The specific factors examined were age and sex of the bereaved child, circumstances of the death, and adjustment of remaining caregiver. Participants (n = 5) responded to an interview instrument specifically designed for this study which contained seven in-depth, open-ended questions. Participants’ replies were mostly in accordance with the literature, but also generated some new perspectives that had not been previously considered for this study and had not appeared in the literature. This study has implications for practice with parentally bereaved children and their surviving caregivers.Rebecca M. Hope, LCSW, Outpatient Clinician, New River Valley Community Services, 700 University City Boulevard, Blacksburg, VA 24060.Diane M. Hodge, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Social Work, Radford University, P.O. Box 6958, Radford, VA 24141; e-mail: dmhodge@radford.eduAddress correspondence to Rebecca M. Hope, LCSW, Outpatient Clinician, New River Valley Community Services, 700 University City Boulevard, Blacksburg, VA 24060; e-mail: rmhope@verizon.net     

揭示国民性的冷漠与隔阂——《伤逝》主旨的另一解读

沿着《伤逝》中不同的视点细读作品,可以看到涓生与子君存在着深深的隔膜。他们的爱情悲剧,主要是由这种人与人之间难以沟通的国民性弱点造成的。《伤逝》的主旨可以解读为揭示国民性的冷漠与隔阂。     

从嵇康《声无哀乐论》看音乐审美主体的差异性

嵇康的《声无哀乐论》是我国古代音乐美学史上的一部重要论著,嵇康的音乐审美思想是一种关于审美主体差异性的思想,从中我们可以看到受老庄哲学思想影响的自然观念和对于人的自由意识在音乐审美理论领域的具体落实和运用,并孕育出了重视和弘扬审美主体能动作用的美学思想。     

Social Work Student Views on Palliative Care Learning Resources

Abstract

Many social workers are expected to work with individuals and families who are dealing with life-limiting illnesses, yet during their university education they may not have been exposed to materials that address issues related to death and dying. The Social Work Department of University of New England in Armidale, Australia designed and delivered a palliative care teaching and learning session using publicly funded online materials. Themes emerging from questionnaire and focus group data analysis included appreciation for the importance and emotional demands of the materials, sensitivity and flexibility among educators who ideally have work experience in the field, expanding presence of social work philosophy in curriculum materials and exploring spirituality, and examining culture-informed practice in greater depth. Among the implications is the need for concerted efforts to teach about death and dying using high quality accessible materials, while ensuring social work values and approaches are reflected in the content.     

A Framework for Healing from Loss

ABSTRACT

Many behavioral problems of youth may be viewed as complications with their grieving. This study investigates defenses which emerge in the face of repeated losses and trauma early in life and proposes a framework for understanding what is happening intra-psychically with youth who have such defenses. Inter-subjective and relational theory, early trauma theory, and social constructionist theory each inform this integrated framework for social work practice. Included is an extended cross-cultural case study of therapeutic work with a Latino youth in a community-based setting. Also included are clinical considerations for working with protective defenses emanating from early loss and trauma.     

Grieving the Loss of a Pet Needs the Health System Recognition

Globally there is increased presence of pets in the households. This non-human relationship, with its dimensions of physical and emotional bonds, can get severely jolted on the death of the companion animal. It sets a feeling, ‘our life is now left with a void and the house feels utterly empty’. Unlike the loss of a child, spouse or parent which become a shared tragedy; others may not understand the depth of sadness and a sense of void in a grieving pet owner. Emotional pain and physical distress due to the loss of a companion animal are likely to be pronounced. A big challenge for the medical community is to anticipate, identify and address physical and psychosocial symptom burdens in a timely manner.     

Therapy with Infertile Heterosexual Couples: It’s Not About Gender—Or is it?

In spite of medical data that show males are equal to their female partners as a source of a heterosexual couple’s infertility, therapists face many unanswered questions about the extent to which gender influences each partner’s infertility experience in American culture. How is “hers” different from “his?” To what extent should the therapist strive to help the couple define the infertility issue as “ours”? This article explores how the therapist can elicit and be sensitive to gender issues while fostering resilience in the infertile couple.     

Commentary on Treatment of Infertile Couples Using Reproductive Technologies: A Complex Matrix

The impact of the reproductive technologies upon infertile couples who require them is both ubiquitous and profound. There is a confluence of issues that co-exist for women and men who use reproductive technologies which creates a complex matrix for both the analytically informed social work clinician and those seeking infertility treatment. The unique merger of life stage issues, identity issues, cultural pressures, and responses to the physical and emotional demands of the necessary technologies, serves to amplify the intensity of encounters in this analytic triad. Consideration of attachment theory while utilizing intersubjective systems theory provides a system of treatment which offers comfort and a place to mourn the multiple losses of repetitive failures of attempts to conceive.

新感觉派土壤里的两朵奇葩——施蛰存与川端康成的创作思想比较

施蛰存与川端康成是中日新感觉派文艺土壤里生长出的两朵奇葩。他们在西方现代主义文学试验中转而走向传统,从而取得了不菲的创作成就。他们在新感觉文学实验中对西方现代主义的借鉴各有侧重。川端康成倾向于现代主义的虚无与日本传统物哀美的有机融合;而施蛰存着重于弗洛伊德的性心理分析,其笔下的传统历史题材与现实题材,以及传统的道具与场景如上元灯、梅雨之夕、古塔、扇等,只是叙事的偶然因素,或者说演绎现代心理的道具。     

论《声无哀乐论》的“形式美”音乐观

《声无哀乐论》认为音乐与创作者的情感无关,并否定音乐的政治教化功能,却对音乐形式表现出高度的关注,不少学者批评这种观念带有"形式主义"的倾向。但事实上,《声无哀乐论》包含着"审美的普遍性"、"审美的纯粹性"等深刻思想,体现出高度自觉的审美意识。《声无哀乐论》的"形式美"音乐观并非重形式轻内容的"形式主义",而是魏晋玄学与美学思想的集中反映。