ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
Psychodrama and Moviemaking in a Death Education Course to Work Through a Case of Suicide Among High School Students in Italy.
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- Psychodrama: implementation, study design and effectiveness: a systematic review.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2025Pooled it
- Educational agents and institutions called into action in suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
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- The mediating role of resilience in the relationship between meaning in life and attitude toward death among ICU nurses: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Exploring Emotions Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic through Death Education: A Qualitative Study at Italian Primary Schools.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2023Article
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- Effects of a death education based on narrative pedagogy in a palliative care course among Chinese nursing students.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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- The Perceived Stigma Reduction Expressed by Young Adults in Response to Suicide Prevention Videos.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The hospice as a learning space: a death education intervention with a group of adolescents.BMC palliative care · 2021Article
- "Imagine You Have ALS": Death Education to Prepare for Advance Treatment Directives.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Students' Confidence and Interest in Palliative and Bereavement Care: A European Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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- The Hospice as a Learning Environment: A Follow-Up Study with a Palliative Care Team.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Enhancing Existential Thinking through Death Education: A Qualitative Study among High School Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Beyond the Wall: Death Education at Middle School as Suicide Prevention.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- My Future: Psychodrama and Meditation to Improve Well-Being Through the Elaboration of Traumatic Loss Among Italian High School Students.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
This study describes the psychological effects of an experience of death education (DE) used to explore a case of suicide in an Italian high school. DE activities included philosophical and religious perspectives of the relationships between death and the meaning of life, a visit to a local hospice, and psychodrama activities, which culminated in the production of short movies. The intervention involved 268 high school students (138 in the experimental group). Pre-test and post-test measures assessed ontological representations of death, death anxiety, alexithymia, and meaning in life. Results confirmed that, in the experimental group, death anxiety was significantly reduced as much as the representation of death as annihilation and alexithymia, while a sense of spirituality and the meaning of life were more enhanced, compared to the No DE group. These improvements in the positive meaning of life and the reduction of anxiety confirmed that it is possible to manage trauma and grief at school with death education interventions that include religious discussion, psychodrama and movie making activities.
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