Abstract
Many Palestinian women in the occupied territories face the risk of experiencing incidents of personal loss of their husbands, youngsters, and relatives through death, imprisonment, or deportation due to daily confrontation with the Israeli occupation. In many such incidents, the individualistic focus of psychological therapy renders it less appropriate as a technique to minimize the psychosocial consequences of loss at the population (macro) level. The current study evaluates the effectiveness of an alternative approach called "from a bereaved woman to another." A convenience sample of 94 bereaved women (aged 31-50 years) from West Bank territories took part in this initiative. The results of the study confirmed a statistically significant increase in women's positive self-attitudes and interpersonal skills and a decrease in loss-related symptoms.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 442-451 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of Loss and Trauma |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Received 2 April 2013; accepted 15 April 2013. We would like to thank the Women’s Study Centre, Palestine, for making data available for the analyses of this study. The “from a bereaved woman to another” project was funded by the Swedish association Knivva til Knivva. Address correspondence to Sohail Hossain Hassanein, Al-Quds University, Abo-Dis, P.O. Box 51000, East Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: [email protected]
Keywords
- bereaved women
- intervention
- loss
- occupation
- psychosocial support
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychiatric Mental Health
- Social Psychology
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Psychiatry and Mental health
