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Peer reviewedGetzel, George S. – Social Work, 1991
Describes four modes of positive survival with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and analyzes them as they appear in support groups for people with AIDS. Sees beneficent, artistic-spiritual, heroic, and rational-instrumental survival modes as compromise solutions to fears of life and death described by Rank. Calls analysis nonpejorative…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Chronic Illness, Coping, Death
Peer reviewedSmith, Elizabeth D. – Social Work, 1995
Presents a model of transpersonal intervention that social work clinicians can use when working with terminally-ill clients. Model assumes that individuals possess a level of transpersonal development, with related dimensions of spiritual awareness and personal death perspective; the degree of interrelatedness of these two dimensions influences…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Bereavement, Coping, Death
Peer reviewedBurack-Weiss, Ann – Social Work, 1995
Presents memoirs written by those who have cared for severely ill and disabled loved ones. Such memoirs reveal multiple meanings--many of them positive--inherent in caregiving, contradicting the professional paradigm that family caregiving equals stress. These memoirs can provide an empathic point of entry for clinicians. (RJM)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Caregiver Attitudes, Caregiver Role, Caregivers
