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Item Anticipatory Grief (Hmong)(University of Minnesota Extension, 2022) Krekelberg, Emily R.Item Anticipatory Grief (Karen)(University of Minnesota Extension, 2022) Krekelberg, Emily R.Item Anticipatory Grief (Spanish)(University of Minnesota Extension, 2022) Krekelberg, Emily R.Item Encountering Client Grief: A Phenomenological Study of Experienced Psychologists(2017-08) Quanbeck, JoEmpirical research across groups of psychotherapists regarding the phenomenon of working with client grief is limited, particularly research into psychologists’ experience in this area. This study’s inquiry aimed to shed light on the impact that working with issues of grief in this relationship-intensive profession might have on the experienced therapist, and what can be learned from this. This phenomenological study used qualitative methods to examine 12 psychologists' lived experiences of encountering client grief. An in-person, semi-structured interview was conducted with each participant, guided by three research questions: (1) How are experienced psychologists impacted by their recurrent close proximity to client’s experiences of grief and loss? (2) How do experienced psychologists time and again open themselves to and engage this affective work with clients? (3) How do experienced psychologists maintain vitality when time and again engaging in this relational work with clients experiencing loss? The data was analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) methodology. Four superordinate themes were identified, under which 17 themes were organized. Superordinate themes included the following: (1) An expansive understanding of grief, (2) Navigating the intersections of personal and professional experience with grief, (3) Role of therapist in working with grief, and (4) Factors promoting resilience when working with grief. Analysis of participant responses served to illuminate the significance for therapists of encounters with client grief over time in the profession, with impact on therapist self-awareness, resilience, and training. Major findings, study strengths and limitations, recommendations, and implications are discussed.Item Grieving Through the Day: A Daily Investigation of Employees’ Episodic Grief and Coworkers’ Compassionate Response(2022-04) Stillwell, ElizabethThe central aim of this dissertation was to examine how grief emanating from a loss in employees’ personal lives spills into professional domains to influence their work and well-being outcomes. Drawing from Conservation of Resources theory, I adopted an episodic approach to understand the momentary experience of grief as it is elicited and managed in organizational contexts. I conceptualize episodic grief as a relatively discrete emotional experience of predominantly negative loss-related cognitions and emotions following an internal or external reminder of a personal loss. I further considered the role that others within the workplace social context play in further eroding resources following a loss via grief stigma and in facilitating rebuilding of resources via coworker compassion when episodic grief spills into organizational contexts. I adopted a multilevel approach to investigate the hypothesized model in a 10-day field study using experience sampling methods (ESM) to measure participants’ (N = 119) grief and work experiences at three points throughout their workday. Results indicated that episodic grief experiences in the morning related to increased work disruption in the afternoon, and indirectly related to higher levels of emotional exhaustion in the evenings through work disruption. Grief stigma (but not coworker compassion) moderated these relationships such that the indirect effect of grief on burnout through work disruption was significantly stronger when grief stigma was higher compared to when it was lower. Results did not support a link between episodic grief and work engagement, or the expected indirect relationships to psychological detachment. In the final chapter, I discuss the theoretical and practical implications of this work, as well as its limitations and fruitful directions for future work.