grief – A New Vision for Mental Health

How Animals Help Us Heal with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

Author: Editorial 17th January 2024 0 Comments

This 27 minute podcast features Dr. Joanne Cacciatore. The podcast organisers say: “Dr. Joanne Cacciatore knows first-hand the trauma caused by grief and loss. And she also knows how animals can help us heal. On this episode, host Brittany Derrenbacher sits…
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emotion-focused care

abuse, Animal assisted therapy, animals, audio, Brittany Derrenbacher, grief, Joanne Cacciatore, Selah Carefarm, trauma

Rates of Prolonged Grief Disorder: Considering relationship to the person who died and cause of death

Author: Editorial 27th July 2023 0 Comments

This research paper – from Kara Thieleman, Joanne Cacciatore, and Allen Frances – has been published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. The abstract says: Background Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) was recently included in DSM-5-TR. The rate of PGD is known to…
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a coherent system

Allen Frances, diagnostic labelling, DSM, grief, Joanne Cacciatore, Kara Thieleman, Prolonged Grief Disorder, psychiatry, Research

Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

Author: Editorial 6th September 2021 0 Comments

This book has been written by Alice Vincent. The publishers say: “When she suddenly finds herself uprooted, heartbroken, grieving and living out of a suitcase in her late twenties, Alice Vincent begins planting seeds. She nurtures pot plants and vines on…
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a wellbeing society

Alice Vincent, books, green spaces, grief, plants, slow living, wellbeing

Working with voices, visions and continuing presence

Author: Editorial 22nd April 2019 0 Comments

The Centre for Research in Social and Psychological Transformation (CREST) says : “Around 60% of bereaved people experience the continued presence of a deceased loved one (Castelnovo et al., 2015; Rees, 1971). This may be through hearing the voice of the…
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collaborative practice

bereavement, Centre for Research in Social and Psychological Transformation (CREST), grief, hallucinations, hearing voices, Research, visions

Cultivating our humanity: A systematic review of care farming & traumatic grief

Author: Editorial 17th September 2018 0 Comments

This review essay is co-authored by Dr. Richard Gorman and Dr. Joanne Cacciatore. The abstract says: “Traumatic grief is a complex biopsychosocial experience, frequently (and contentiously) medicalized in the Western world. Care farming is an increasingly popular place-based intervention utilizing agricultural settings…
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Uncategorised

care farming, grief, Joanne Cacciatore, nature, Richard Gorman, trauma, traumatic grief