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Bereavement anxieties and health amongst the Australian-Italian Catholic community

Ata, Abe 2012, Bereavement anxieties and health amongst the Australian-Italian Catholic community, Mental health, religion and culture, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 555-570.

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Title Bereavement anxieties and health amongst the Australian-Italian Catholic community
Author(s) Ata, Abe
Journal name Mental health, religion and culture
Volume number 15
Issue number 6
Start page 555
End page 570
Total pages 16
Publisher Routledge
Place of publication Oxon, England
Publication date 2012-07
ISSN 1367-4676
1469-9737
Keyword(s) bereavement anxieties
health and bereavement
bereaved Australian- Italians
mental health and cultural-religious diversity
loss and afterlife
ethnic bereaved and counseling
non-Anglo psychiatry
Summary 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 Arabborn 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 caregiving interventions.
Language eng
Field of Research 200206 Globalisation and Culture
Socio Economic Objective 940111 Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Migrant Development and Welfare
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
ERA Research output type C Journal article
HERDC collection year 2011
Copyright notice ©2011, Taylor & Francis
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30042677

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: School of International and Political Studies
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