Abstract

GARPELLI BARBOSA, Caroline; EBNER MELCHIORI, Lígia  and  MARIA BUENO NEME, Carmen. Death, family and the phenomenological understanding: systematic review of literature. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2011, vol.17, n.3, pp. 363-377. ISSN 1677-1168.

The phenomenological research aims to understand how human beings mean their experiences and allows a detailed investigation of issues related to human life. In order to understand how the death experience within the family has been addressed by studies within phenomenological research perspective, a systematic review of literature was performed based on abstracts indexed in Lilacs, PEPsic, Medline e PsycInfo, by means of the intersection of the keywords: family, death, and phenomenology. Overall, 54 papers were found. Initially, all the papers were subjected to a quantitative analysis, after which 15 were selected for qualitative analysis. The results indicated that studies with grounding in phenomenology addressed three major themes: the experiences, meanings and coping with grief and loss, the family's relationship with the terminally ill patient, and the experiences of families facing sudden death

Keywords : Review; death; family; phenomenology.

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