Loss, Grief, and the Search for Significance: Toward a Model of Meaning Reconstruction in Bereavement

Gillies, James; Neimeyer, Robert A.

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Loss, Grief, and the Search for Significance: Toward a Model of Meaning Reconstruction in Bereavement

Gillies, James, Neimeyer, Robert A.·2006·Journal of Constructivist Psychology

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Constructivist theories recently have begun to inform understandings of grief, emphasizing the role of meaning making in adaptation to bereavement. In this article we review empirical studies using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods, investigating how three activities of meaning reconstruction are involved in the grieving process: sense making, benefit finding, and identity change. In particular, we consider how critical processes have been operationally defined and how study methods and designs have constrained what can be concluded from this burgeoning field of research. We conclude by positing an integrated model of meaning reconstruction pathways as a heuristic guide to further research and briefly note the implications of this model for clinical practice.

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Sudden deaths like suicides are shocking and compel individuals to make sense of them as part of bereavement.
“In short, Robert Neimeyer and his many collaborators have demonstrated that sudden deaths, like suicides, are shocking and compel individuals to make sense of them, to sift through available meanings as part of the bereavement process (Gillies and Neimeyer, 2006; Neimeyer et al., 2014).”
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Our findings also resonate with meaning-centred model of grief which emphasizes grief as ongoing process of meaning reconstruction rather than state to be resolved.
“Our findings also resonate with the meaning‐centred model of grief (Gillies & Neimeyer, 2006) which emphasizes grief as an ongoing process of meaning reconstruction rather than a state to be resolved.”
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Authors: Gillies, J., & Neimeyer, R. A.
Affiliations: Forensic Health Services
University of Memphis (US)
ORCID: Neimeyer, Robert A.
Venue: Journal of Constructivist Psychology
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Published: 2006-01
Volume: 19
Issue: 1
Pages: 31-65
ISSN: 1072-0537 (ISSN-L)
1521-0650
DOI: 10.1080/10720530500311182
OpenAlex: W2026626122
Cited by: 678
References: 109
Citations by year: 2026: 51 · 2025: 57 · 2024: 59 · 2023: 45 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 43 · 2019: 31 · 2018: 32 · 2017: 36 · 2016: 29 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 33 · 2013: 46 · 2012: 21
FWCI: 12.00
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Journal of Constructivist Psychology (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Keywords: grief, bereavement, meaning reconstruction, sensemaking, benefit finding, personal transformation, adaptation to loss, clinical practice implications

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