John Birrell
University of Bath
10 Papers
15 Citations
John Birrell is an academic researcher from University of Bath. The author has contributed to research in topics: Grief & Complicated grief. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 10 publications. Previous affiliations of John Birrell include NHS Tayside & Cruse Bereavement Care.
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Papers
The Economic Cost of Bereavement in Scotland
Audrey I. Stephen,Colin Macduff,Dennis Petrie,Fu-Min Tseng,Henk Schut,Silje Skar,Anne Corden,John Birrell,Shaolin Wang,Catherine Newsom,Stewart Wilson +10 more
TL;DR: Bereaved people were significantly less likely to be employed in the year of and 2 years after bereavement than non-bereaved matched controls, but there were no significant differences in income between bereaved people and matched controls before and after Bereavement.
Cremation and Grief : Are Ways of Commemorating the Dead Related to Adjustment Over Time?
John Birrell,Henk Schut,Margaret Stroebe,Margaret Stroebe,Daniel Anadria,Cate Newsom,Kate Woodthorpe,Hannah Rumble,Anne Corden,Yvette Smith +9 more
TL;DR: Results suggested that it does not matter to grief whether a more minimalistic or elaborate funeral ceremony was observed, and the funeral industry represented in this investigation is offering bereaved people the range of choices regarding cremation arrangements to meet their needs.
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Effectiveness of bereavement counselling through a community-based organization: A naturalistic, controlled trial
Catherine Newsom,Henk Schut,Margaret Stroebe,Margaret Stroebe,Stewart Wilson,John Birrell,Mirjam Moerbeek,Maarten C. Eisma +7 more
TL;DR: Results suggest community‐based bereavement counselling may have long‐term beneficial effects on reducing complicated grief symptoms, and suggest counselling intervention and control group participants experienced a similar reduction in CG symptoms at postmeasure.
Community-based counseling reaches and helps bereaved people living in low-income households
Catherine Newsom,Margaret Stroebe,Henk Schut,Stewart Wilson,John Birrell,Mirjam Moerbeek,Maarten C. Eisma +6 more
TL;DR: Main findings are that low income is a key predictor of complicated grief symptoms, and the effectiveness of one-to-one bereavement counseling does not appear to differ according to income level.
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Initial Validation of a Comprehensive Assessment Instrument for Bereavement-Related Grief Symptoms and Risk of Complications: The Indicator of Bereavement Adaptation—Cruse Scotland (IBACS)
TL;DR: The IBACS offers effective grief symptom and risk assessment for use by non-clinicians and indications are sufficient to support intake assessment for a stepped model of bereavement intervention.