Background Bereaved parents experience higher rates of depressive and post-traumatic
stress symptoms after the stillbirth of a baby than after live-birth. Yet, these effects remain …

This study examined health/mental health status, family functioning, and resiliency among a
sample of bereaved parents (N= 503). Participants were recruited from an online support …

The upcoming fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has incited vociferous debate among academics …

The discipline of social work has long prided itself on taking a holistic view of human
suffering and well-being and for advocating for conditions that enhance the quality of life for …

Background In the USA, stillbirth (in utero fetal death≥ 20 weeks gestation) is a major public
health issue. Women who experience stillbirth, compared to women with live birth, have a …

Objectives To describe the use of complementary approaches in pregnant women with a
history of miscarriage and to investigate whether a miscarriage is associated with the use of …

Given the escalating number of orphans globally, orphanhood and caring for the orphaned
has become one of the major challenges faced by societies. In South Africa, the major goal …

The human grieving response is neither categorically simple, nor is it a predictable linear
process. A new paradigm of adaptive grieving is emerging in the grief and bereavement …

Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to the place
where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken... what we desire most is to do away …

The topic of death has tremendous biopsychosocial complexity. We discuss it under the
social aspects of aging because familial, societal, and cultural norms provide the context for …