Grief—An Invitation to Inertia: A Narrative Approach to Working With Grief

Moules, Nancy J.; Amundson, Jon K.

Grief—An Invitation to Inertia: A Narrative Approach to Working With Grief

dc.contributor.author	Moules, Nancy J.	en
dc.contributor.author	Amundson, Jon K.	en
dc.date.accessioned	2007-06-18T18:52:34Z
dc.date.available	2007-06-18T18:52:34Z
dc.date.issued	1997
dc.description.abstract	Grief is a complex, compelling, and profound life experience that is a normal and healthy response to the death of a significant other. Personal experiences of grief, when juxtaposed against the cultural and health care discourses that see grief as a process that eventually results in a resolution characterized by the absence of grief feelings, can sponsor constraining and limiting experiences of life after loss. A narrative approach offers one way for nurses and other health care professionals to view grief and grief’s possible “problem” states. Narrative invites the bereaved into seeing and storying their experiences in a more accepting and facilitative fashion. This article outlines a narrative approach to a particular problem state found in grief. a problem state of inertia. Implications for family nursing are discussed.	en
dc.description.refereed	Yes	en
dc.identifier.citation	Moules, Nancy J. and Amundson, Jon K. "Grief—An Invitation to Inertia: A Narrative Approach to Working With Grief". Journal of Family Nursing, 4, No. 3: 378-393.	en
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34857
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/44685
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	Sage Publications	en
dc.publisher.corporate	University of Calgary	en
dc.publisher.faculty	Nursing	en
dc.publisher.url	http://www.sagepub.com/journals.nav	en
dc.subject	Family Nursing	en
dc.subject	Family Systems Nursing	en
dc.subject.other	Grief	en
dc.subject.other	Narrative approach	en
dc.title	Grief—An Invitation to Inertia: A Narrative Approach to Working With Grief	en
dc.type	journal article
thesis.degree.discipline	Family Nursing Unit	en