a Department of Psychology , University of Memphis , Memphis , TN , USA.
Death Stud. 2019;43(2):79-91. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2018.1456620.
The death of a significant person, especially when it comes tragically or prematurely, can shake the foundations of our assumptive and relational world and lead to anguished attempts to find meaning in the loss and in our lives in its aftermath. In this article, I review one program of research focused on this attempt at meaning reconstruction, describe recently developed measures of meaning in mourning, and discuss several therapeutic techniques for helping clients make sense of the death and rework their attachment relationship to the deceased. I conclude by illustrating some of this work in my therapy with a couple grieving the loss of not one but two children to tragic accidents, as they try to adapt to a compound traumatic bereavement.
重要他人的死亡，尤其是意外或过早的死亡，会动摇我们假设的和关系性的世界的基础，并导致我们痛苦地试图在失去和失去后的生活中找到意义。在本文中，我回顾了一个专注于这种意义重建尝试的研究计划，描述了哀悼中意义的新发展测量方法，并讨论了几种帮助客户理解死亡并重新处理他们与死者的依恋关系的治疗技术。最后，我通过在一对夫妇的治疗中举例说明了这项工作，他们因两次意外事故而失去了两个孩子，试图适应复合创伤性丧亲之痛。
