RT Article
T1 Bereavement anxieties and health amongst the Australian-Italian Catholic community
JF Mental health, religion & culture
VO 15
IS 6
SP 555
OP 570
A1 Ata, Abe
LA English
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1838989005
AB This article is based on survey of 269 households in the state of Victoria, Australia. It elicits some useful guidelines for professional caregivers in relation to eight cultural/religious groups including Australian-born Christians and Arab-born Muslims. The focus here is upon the relationships between the Australian Italian community and personal health outcomes during bereavement. The following sub-strata are examined: community differences in relation to grief and loss practices and traditions; the value of religious communal support and counseling; symptomatological differences from psychosocial and educational perspectives; psychopathological/psychiatric symptoms and beliefs and practice concerning the afterlife. Significant differences were revealed between the sexes on such matters as health problems, grief expressions, psychosomatic manifestations, communication with the dead, beliefs in the afterlife and interpretation of the meaning of loss. Differences in these findings will assist professional caregivers who deal with families experiencing personal death loss to broaden their own perspectives on bereavement, offering specific counselling strategies and care-giving interventions.
K1 Non-Anglo Psychiatry
K1 bereaved Australian-Italians
K1 bereavement anxieties
K1 ethnic bereaved and counseling
K1 health and bereavement
K1 loss and afterlife
K1 mental health and cultural-religious diversity
DO 10.1080/13674676.2011.599370