The Paradox of Time Post-Pregnancy Loss: Three Things Not to Say When Communicating Social Support.
Health Commun
; 31(11): 1426-9, 2016 11.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27050474
ABSTRACT
In this essay, I interrogate the role time plays in the three most common social support messages I received post-pregnancy loss. In doing so, I illustrate how our most common "social support" responses to pregnancy loss, while uttered from caring, intentional places of support, can actually serve to marginalize and invalidate experiences of pregnancy loss.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Social Support
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Abortion, Spontaneous
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Communication
Aspects:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Health Commun
Journal subject:
PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE
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SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article