Abstract

PEREZ CARDENAS, Clara  and  SEBAZCO PERNAS, Armando. Familia perdida: Características de esta crisis familiar. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2000, vol.16, n.1, pp.93-97. ISSN 0864-2125.

In this descriptive investigation we try to explain what happens when one of the members of the couples that gave rise to the studied families dies ( stage of disintegration or lost family). To this end, it was necessary to review the family cards of the physicians´s offices of a basis working group of the "Dr. Mario Escalona Reguera" Teaching Polyclinic, in Alamar. The working universe was composed of 62 family groups. We interviewed widows and widowers at home, being extremely careful with the establishment of rapport. We felt motivated to deal with this topic because this stage of the family vital cycle has not been explored in previous papers. We took into account the preparation of the interviewed persons to face the event ( death of the spouse), their feelings during mourning, the network of social support at the time of the death and of the interview, the present conflicts and the restructuration of their social and sexual life. It was observed that most of these individuals did not expect the loss and that they were not ready for it and, as a result, they were´s till suffering when the study was conducted. It was considered that the family nucleus plays a basic role as part of the emotional support due to the loss

Keywords : LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; WIDOWHOOD [psychology]; FAMILY [psychology]; INTERVIEWS.

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