Bato Metovic

Research Question: How do people cope with Tragic Events?

Subject Terms:
Grief
Death
Death in families
Rwanda
Death at Universities
Tragedy
Coping with Tragedy

· Scholarly Journal
Forde, Susan, and Carmel Devaney. "Postvention: A Community-based Family Support Initiative and Model of Responding to Tragic Events, Including Suicide." Child Care in Practice 12.1 (2006): 53-61. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 14 Apr. 2010.

Shows how families respond to tragic events and what it takes for someone to try and get over such tragedies.

· Newspaper Article
Gary, Mihoces. "Dealing with a player's death." USA Today (n.d.): Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 14 Apr. 2010.

Describes how a mother found it in her to deal with the death of her college football player of a son.

· Newspaper Article
ARI L., GOLDMAN. "The World: Dealing With Death; Confronting Grief, Not Burying It." New York Times 07 Sept. 2003: 5. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 14 Apr. 2010.

Psychology urges people to confront their grief rather than bury or ignore it. Religious rituals help provide a regularized outlet for mourners' emotions.

· Magazine Article
Westmoreland, Paula. "Coping with death: Helping students grieve." Childhood Education 72.3 (1996): 157. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 14 Apr. 2010.

Provides information on how to help children to cope up with the grief following the death of someone close. Children's perception of death; Stages of grief; Abnormal reactions to death; Conveying concepts of death.

· Magazine Article
Schneider, Jodi. "COPING WITH A SPOUSE'S DEATH." U.S. News & World Report 134.19 (2003): 58. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 14 Apr. 2010.

Methods for coping with a spouse's death; Depression that sets in when people lose a spouse; Importance of exercise.

· Primary Source
Sand, Lisa, Mariann Olsson, and Peter Strang. "Coping Strategies in the Presence of One's Own Impending Death from Cancer." Journal of Pain & Symptom Management 37.1 (2009): 13-22. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 14 Apr. 2010

Twenty patients were interviewed in depth. The patients were enrolled in an advanced hospital-based home care team. The interviews were taped, transcribed and analyzed with a qualitative, hermeneutic interpretative method.

· Book
Peck, Rosalie, and Charlotte Stefanics. Learning to Say Goodbye: Dealing with Death and Dying. Muncie, Ind.: Accelerated Development, 1987. Print.

Explains that emotions are normal and natural. Speaks on how to deal with emotions and accepting death.

· Book
Cutter, Fred. Coming to Terms with Death: How to Face the Inevitable with Wisdom and Dignity. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1977. Print.

It is a helpful book that provides help in coping with the last things before, during and after a death.

· Website
Jaffe, Ellen. "Coping with Grief and Loss." Help Guide. Ed. Melinda Smith. N.p., Jan. 2009.

Explains that there is no right or wrong ways to grieve and gives ideas on what to do to cope.

· Scholarly Journal
Tomlinson, Chris. "Rwanda Genocide Victims, Killers Meet." Associated Press (2007). Web. 14 Apr. 2010. .

This article puts together the Rwanda victims and killers and see how they deal with each other after many years and many horrific acts.