By Phyllis R. Silverman
Widow to Widow stocks the studies of widows who've came across convenience and continuity in mutual-help and group aid courses. within the moment variation of her pioneering textual content, Phyllis Silverman brings the good fortune of the unique widow-to-widow application into the twenty first century, getting ready a brand new iteration of group leaders, clergy, counselors, hospice employees, social staff, and the widowed themselves to arrange and enforce mutual-help courses.
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It seemed to give them permission to accept their pain and their need for other kinds of support. It was clear to them that they did not have to prove, to either the aide or themselves, that they could manage without help. In fact, the aides did not talk about the need to talk to someone but rather about the benefits of talking to another widow who had walked the same path. Most women maintained active relationships with children and other nearby family and friends as well. Over time, though, the nearby (and generally once-helpful) relatives often grew unsympathetic and impatient.
1984; Stroebe & Schut, 2001b). The small minority who have difficulty needs attention, but we cannot generalize from their experience to the larger bereaved population. Grief As a Life-Cycle Event Applying a medical model can reduce our understanding of human behavior to a simple cause-and-effect linear model, implying control where none may be possible. We must consider the implications of assuming that a normal life-cycle event is a treatable illness. Using the language of sickness and health, our society takes grief to the “doctor’s office,” where it can be contained and controlled and will not intrude on the greater community.
This model describes an increasingly complex and coherent way to understand relationships between self and other, a model that depends not on chronological age but on interpersonal dynamics. By seeing themselves as capable of relating to others in different ways with greater variety in their responses, the widowed are able to understand and respond to the death in a broader context. Characteristics of the behavior of any widowed person are discussed, as are sociocultural aspects of the experience, family issues, life-cycle issues, and ways in which meaning is constructed around issues of faith and belief.