As a supporter or friend, you don’t need to have the answers, and you shouldn’t speculate. Here’s how to just be there and offer practical support.
- Professor of Social Work, CQUniversity Australia
Police receive 50,000 missing reports in Australia each year. But not everyone goes missing by accident – for some people it’s a choice or a way to cope.
Carers can be left to figure it out for themselves, without support. Here’s what can help.
As television has become more nuanced, death depicted in fictional programs has begun to replicate the complexity of ‘real’ loss in our lives.
Children and the adults they become need to choose how they grieve. That may include sharing their experiences and getting angry.
El duelo por la reina Isabel II de Inglaterra es distinto del que sentimos por alguien cercano. Cuestiones políticas, y las diversas opiniones sobre el papel que ha tenido, complican nuestros sentimientos.
Grieving the queen’s passing can be different to grieving the loss of someone we were close to. It’s also complicated by politics, colonialism and the contest about who she really was.
We have also lost moments of shared empathy – a space for others to see people who are travelling the same path.
Non-stop media coverage can invade their privacy, raise and dash their hopes, and prolong their trauma.
Understanding liminality and its origins can provide ways to better understand the foggy, ambiguous space we’re experiencing right now.
Missing persons are sharing their stories and experiences as part of new research in Australia. The goal is to better understand what causes people to disappear.
Media stories about missing people are as intriguing as they are common. As a community, we form our own opinions of the person who is absent by the details that the media shares with the public. But often…
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