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Using Images of the Future in Grief Work
Author(s) -
Collison Carol,
Miller Sandra
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1987.tb00578.x
Subject(s) - grief , existentialism , psychology , intervention (counseling) , negotiation , face (sociological concept) , task (project management) , identity (music) , meaning (existential) , psychotherapist , psychoanalysis , sociology , epistemology , psychiatry , aesthetics , art , social science , philosophy , engineering , systems engineering
Terminally ill patients and their families face the dual task of identity preservation and relationship redefinition—existential issues at the heart of a search for meaning and value in life. Negotiating these developmental tasks successfully contributes to the quality of lift for the dying and increases the likelihood of successful grief resolution in survivors. Images of the future allow the dying and their family members to address the existential Crisis underlying Kubler‐Ross's descriptive stages of grief. Nursing professionals are challenged to expand the framework of intervention for grief work with the dying.