The experience of loss following traumatic brain injury: Applying a bereavement model to the process of adjustment

Qualitative Research in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 241-257

  Roundhill, Stephen J ^a,c   Williams, W Huw ^b   Hughes, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTH DEVON DISTRICT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Brain injury; Interpretative phenomenological analysis loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 53949119517     PISSN: 14780887     EISSN: 14780895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14780880701473540     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. nd ed.).Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
2. Bauer, J.J. and Bonanno, G.A. 2001:1 can, I do, I am: the narrative differentiation of self-efficacy and other self-evaluations while adapting to bereavement. Journal of Research in Personality(35), 424-448.
3. Bonanno, G.A. 2004: Loss, trauma, and human resilience: have we underestimated the human capacity to thrive after extremely aversive events? American Psychologist 59(1), 20-28.
4. Bonanno, G.A., Wortman, C.B., and Nesse, R.M. 2004: Prospective patterns of resilience and maladjustment during widowhood. Psychology and Aging 19(2), 260-271.
5. Brennan, J. 2001: Adjustment to cancer: coping or personal transition? Psycho-Oncology 10, 1-18.
6. Bryant, R. 2001: Posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury: can they co-exist? Clinical Psychology Review 21(6), 931-948.
7. Chwalisz, K. 1998: Brain injury: a tapestry of loss. In Harvey, J., editor, Perspectives on Loss: A Sourcebook. London: Brunner/Mazel.
8. Coetzer, R. and Corney, M. 2001: Grief and self awareness-following brain injury and the effect of feedback as an intervention. Journal of Cognitive Rehabilitation Winter 2001, 8-14.
9. Crisp, R. 1992: Awareness of deficit after traumatic brain injury: a literature review. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal 39(1), 15-22.
10. Crisp, R. 1993: Personal responses to traumatic brain injury: a qualitative study. Disability, Handicap, and Society 8(4), 393-404.
11. Finset, A. and Andersson, S. 2000: Coping strategies in patients with acquired brain injury: relationships between coping, apathy, depression and lesion location. Brain Injury 14(10), 887-905.
12. Fleminger, S., Oliver, D.L., Williams, W.H., and Evans, J.J. 2003: The neuropsychiatry of depression after brain injury. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 13(1-2), 65-87.
13. Goldstein, J 1952: The effect of brain damage on the personality. Psychiatry 15, 245-260.
14. Hanson, R.O., Remondet, J.H., and Galusha, M. 1993: Old age and widowhood: Issues of personal control and independence. In Stroebe, M., Hansson, R., Stroebe, W., and Schut, H., editors, Handbook of Bereavement Research: Consequences, Coping, and Care. Washington, DC: APA. Harvey, J. H. 2001: The psychology of loss as a lens to positive psychology. American Behavioral Scientist 44(5), 838-853.
15. Harvey, J. and Miller. E. 1998: Towards a psychology of loss. Psychological Science 9(6), 429-434.
16. Haynes, S. 1994: The experience of grief in the head-injured adult. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 9(4), 323-336.
17. Henvvood, K.L. and Pidgeon, N.F. 1995: Grounded theory and psychological research. The Psychologist 8(3), 115-118.
18. Karlovits, T. and McColl, M. 1999: Coping with community reintegration after severe brain injury: a description of stresses and coping strategies. Brain Injury 13(11), 845-861.
19. rd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell Science. Mancini, A.D. and Bonanno, G.A. 2006: Resilience in the face of potential trauma: clinical practices and illustrations. Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session 62(8), 971-985.
20. May, R. 1960: Existential bases of psychotherapy. Journal of Orthopsychiatry 30,685-695.
21. Mayou, R., Bryant, B., and Duthie, R. 1993 : Psychiatric consequences of road traffic accidents. British Medical Journal 307,647-651.
22. McKeon, J., McGuffin, P., and Robinson, P. 1984: Obsessive compulsive neurosis following head injury: a report of four cases. British Journal of Psychiatry 144, 190-192.
23. Neimeyer, R. and Hogan, N. 2001: Quantitative or qualitative? Measurement issues in the study of grief. In Stroebe, M., Hansson, R., Stroebe, W., and Schut, H., editors, Handbook of Bereavement Research: Consequences, Coping, and Care. Washington DC: APA.
24. Nochi, M. 1998: "Loss of self in the narratives of people with traumatic brain injuries: a qualitative analysis. Social Science and Medicine 46(7), 869-878.
25. Nochi, M. 2000: Reconstructing self-narratives in coping with traumatic brain injury. Social Science and Medicine 51,1795-1804.
26. Osborn, M. and Smith, J. 1998: The personal experience of chronic benign lower back pain: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. British Journal of Health Psychology 3, 65-83.
27. Ownsworth, T. and Oei, T. 1998: Depression after traumatic brain injury: conceptualisation and treatment considerations. Brain Injury 12(9), 735-751.
28. Parkes, C. 1988: Bereavement as a psychosocial transition: Process of adaptation to change. Journal of Social Issues 44, 53-65.
29. Payne, S., Horn, S., and Relf, M. 1999: Loss and Bereavement. Buckingham: OUP. Prigatano, G.P. and Klonoff, P.S. 1998: A Clinician's rating scale for evaluating impaired self-awareness and denial of disability after brain injury. The Clinical Neuropsychologist 12,56-67.
30. Rosenblatt, P.C. 1993: Grief: the social context of private feelings. In Stroebe, M., Stroebe, W., and Hanson, R.O., editors, Handbook of Bereavement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Simpson, G. and Tate, R. 2002: Suicidality after traumatic brain injury: demographic, injury and clinical correlates. Psychological Medicine 32, 687-697.
31. Sinclair, M. and Lawler, D. 2003: Grieving for myself: Women's lived experience of post-natal depression. Paper presented at the Royal College of Nursing's research conference (Manchester, England, April 10-12).
32. Smith, J.A. 1995: Semi-structured interviewing and qualitative analysis. In Smith, J.A., Harré, R., and Van Langenhove, L., editors, Rethinking Methods in Psychology. London: Sage. Smith, J.A. 1996: Evolving issues for qualitative psychology. In Richardson, T., editor, Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for Psychology and the Social Sciences. Leicester: BPS Books.
33. Smith, J.A., Jarmon, M., and Osborne, M. 1999: Doing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Murray, I.M. and Chamberlain, K., editors, Qualitative Health Psychology: Theories and Methods. London: Sage.
34. Stroebe, M.S. 1992: Coping with bereavement: a review of the grief work hypothesis. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying 26, 19-42.
35. Stroebe, M., Hansson, R., Strocbc, \V., and Schut, H. 2001: Handbook of Bereavement Research: Consequences, Coping, and Care. Washington DC: APA.
36. Stroebe, M and Schut, H. 1999: The dual process model of coping with bereavement: rationale and description. Death Studies 23, 197-224.
37. Stroebe, W. and Stroebe, M.S. 1993: Determinants of adjustment to bereavement in younger widows and widowers. In Stroebe, M., Stroebe, W., and Hanson, R.O., editors, Handbook of Bereavement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
38. Tadir, M. and Stern, J.M. 1985: The mourning process with brain injured patients. Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitative Medicine: Supplement 12, 50-52.
39. Taylor, L.A., Kreutzer, J., Demm, S.R., & Meade, M.A. 2003: Traumatic brain injury and substance abuse: a review and analysis of the literature. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 13(1-2), 165-189.
40. Teasdale, T.W. and Enberg, A.W. 2001: Suicide after traumatic brain injury: a population study. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 71, 436-440.
41. Tedeschi, R.G., Park, C.L., and Calhoun, L.G. 1998: Posttraumatic growth: conceptual issues. In Tedeschi, R.G., Park, C.L., and Calhoun, L.G., editors, Posttraumatic Growth: Positive Changes in the Aftermath of Crisis. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
42. Weinberger, D.A. 1990: The construct validity of the repressive coping style. In Singer, J.L., editor, Repression and Dissociation: Implications for Personality Theory, Psychopathology and Health. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
43. Williams, M. 2002: Generalization in Interpretative Research. In May, T., editor, Qualitative Research in Action. London: Sage.
44. Williams, W.H. and Evans, J.J. 2003a: Brain injury and emotion: an overview to a special issue on biopsychosocial approaches in neuro-rehabilitation. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 13(1-2), 1-11.
45. Williams, W.H., Evans, J.J., and Fleminger, S. 2003b: Neuro-rehabilitation and cognitive behavior therapy of anxiety disorders after brain injury: an overview and a case illustration of obsessive compulsive disorder. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 13(1-2), 133-148.
46. Willig, C. 2001: Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology. Buckingham: OUP.
47. Wortman, C.B. and Silver, R.C. 1987: Coping with irrevocable loss. In Vanderbos, G.R. and Bryant, B.K., editors, Cataclysms, crises, and catastrophes: Psychology in action. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
48. Yates, P. 2003: Psychological adjustment, social enablement and community integration following acquired brain injury. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 13(1-2), 291-306.
49. Zinner, E., Ball, J., Stutts, M., and Philput, C. 1997: Grief reactions of mothers of adolescents and young adults with traumatic brain injury. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 12(5), 435-447.