The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is characterised by high tech and absence of intimacy and often lacks a structured palliative care approach for bereavement support for relatives. We developed practical tools for ICU-nurses in the Netherlands to support relatives of dying patients in the ICU.

This interview-based article about Hubert Hermans, founder of The Dialogical Self Theory (DST), was intended to determine the founder’s personal relationship to the construction and development of his theory and to provide a portrait of the engaged scientist and vulnerable researcher at work. DST lends …

In november 2018 overleed Frans Meijers; onderzoeker, lector, en levenspartner van Reinekke Lengelle. Reinekke en Frans werkten en schreven samen en hebben de narratieve methode Career Writing (loopbaanschrijven) ontwikkeld. In haar onlangs verschenen boek Writing the Self in Bereavement beschrijft …

That expressive writing can be a beneficial response to trauma or grief is well-established in the literature. Grief research also shows that the majority of people are resilient in the face of the death of loved ones. That said, traditional rituals around loss are no longer ubiquitous, well-known phase …