Re-Authoring Identity: How Narrative Group Therapy Supports The Metabolization Of Grief In Later In Life Coming Out

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dc.contributor.authorTickner, Tiffany
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-17T23:52:13Z
dc.date.available2025-10-17T23:52:13Z
dc.date.issued2025-09
dc.description.abstractResearch on grief among older 2SLGBTQIA+ adults (ages 35–60) experiencing Later-in-Life Coming Out (LLCO) is limited. Mental health challenges such as depression, anxiety, and suicidality are heightened by minority stressors like stigma, discrimination, poverty, and reduced access to care, factors rooted in heteronormative discourse. These intersecting stressors, combined with relational disruptions, shifting family roles, loss of safety or privilege, missed milestones, and internalized oppression, can compound four key types of LLCO grief: anticipatory, ambiguous, disenfranchised, and non-finite grief. Current research shows that processing grief in a group setting supports emotional healing, reduces mental health challenges, fosters more affirmative 2SLGBTQIA+ identity narratives, and builds a sense of community that lessens isolation. Using Foucauldian discourse analysis, minority stress theory, and narrative therapy, this capstone explores how these grief experiences intersect with identity formation and examines how narrative group therapy can help metabolize LLCO grief while fostering more empowering and affirming narratives.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11803/4867
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisher.institutionCity University of Seattle (CityU)
dc.subject2SLGBTQIA+
dc.subjectgrief
dc.subjectnarrative group therapy
dc.subjectgroup therapy
dc.subjectqueer
dc.subjectanticipatory grief
dc.subjectambiguous grief
dc.subjectcoming out
dc.subjectdisenfranchised grief
dc.subjectnon-finite grief
dc.subjectminority stress
dc.subjectnarratve therapy
dc.subjectbereavement
dc.titleRe-Authoring Identity: How Narrative Group Therapy Supports The Metabolization Of Grief In Later In Life Coming Out
dc.typeCapstone
thesis.degree.disciplineCounselling
thesis.degree.grantorCity University of Seattle (CityU)
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Counselling
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