{"id":75294,"date":"2025-11-14T20:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/the-role-of-social-support-in-situations-of-threat-and-loss\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:49:11","slug":"the-role-of-social-support-in-situations-of-threat-and-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/the-role-of-social-support-in-situations-of-threat-and-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of social support in situations of threat and loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social support plays an important role in the context of bereavement. Social support is a network of friends, family and colleagues that provides emotional, informational or directly applied support to a person. It mitigates the effects of experiencing a threat or loss through:<br \/>\n 1) Emotional support: listening, empathy, and reaffirming a person&#8217;s worth and status.<br \/>\n2) Informational support: providing advice, guidance on solutions and explanation of available options.<br \/>\n3) Practical or material support: assistance with daily activities or provision of resources to mitigate the effects of loss.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social support plays an important role in the context of bereavement. Social support is a network of friends, family and colleagues that provides emotional, informational or directly applied support to a person. It mitigates the effects of experiencing a threat or loss through: 1) Emotional support: listening, empathy, and reaffirming a person&#8217;s worth and status. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-14-key-psychological-concepts-in-ecological-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}