Many factors influence how individuals experience and adapt to loss. Among these are the nature of the loss, the relationship and attachment to the loss, the circumstances surrounding the loss, personal variables and social variables. This volume examines the ways in which these key aspects of identity affect how individuals grieve. Specifically ...
This work features articles by leading educators and clinicians in the field of grief and bereavement. The chapters entitled "Voices" are the writings of children and adolescents. It includes a comprehensive resource list of national organizations and a useful bibliography of age-appropriate literature for children and adolescents.
This volume examines the subject of abrupt, unexpected death and its effects and implications for the survivors left behind. Topics covered include: after heart attack and stroke, survivors of suicide, complicated grief in the military, and grief counselling for survivors of traumatic loss.
As this book shows us, when a loved one dies we search for meaning in our own lives while struggling to hold onto memories of a precious life lost, O says Senator John Breaux in his introduction to this book. The 29 chapters of this book address the struggles, concerns and issues faced by the bereaved, and those who care for them.
Based on the Hospice Foundation of America's second annual teleconference, this book explores three basic themes in children's grief. Firstly, it maintains that children are always developing; therefore their understanding of death and their reactions to illness and loss are also multifaceted and constantly undergoing change. Secondly, children ...
Discusses what is medically known about Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. The book examines the challenges and opportunities that Alzheimer's presents to clinicians, caregivers, hospice workers, and policy advocates. Dr. Sam Gandy, renowned Alzheimer's researcher, contributes with a chapter describing the medical advances in the quest to ...
While we often discuss how we grieve, rarely do we consider the places where we grieve. Yet whether at work, at school, at worship or at home, grief not only affects moods and motivation but the ability to function and relate as well. This book considers the ways that grief influences us in varied settings, offering humane and practical ...
We are approaching a caregiving crisis in America, says Rosalynn Carter in her foreword to the book. The 12 chapters of this book discuss the needs of family caregivers and how professional health care workers can work better with them, and explores the multiple losses felt by patients and families. Voices of caregivers and programs that work ...
Serious illness inevitably involves the patient's entire family: every member suffers along with the one who has been diagnosed. Life-threatening illnesses consist of many phases: the pre-diagnostic period when people worry about symptoms; the crisis of diagnosis; the typically long-term of chronic illness; the issues that persist even in recovery ...
Now in a revised and expanded second edition, this popular casebook and text demonstrates a range of therapeutic approaches and interventions for children who have experienced loss. In-depth case examples - several of which are new or include follow-up reports - form the core of the book. Illustrated are ways to help preschoolers through ...
Exploring the nature of public tragedy, responding to these and other important questions, the essays in this text look at factors that define a public tragedy and offer insight and advice to organizations and professionals as they support their communities and help those coping with loss.
Historically, AIDS is just one of a series of dreaded diseases that have aroused both great fear and irrational actions. The previous diseases, including bubonic plague, syphilis, tuberculosis, leprosy and cancer, have evoked such a sense of dread that rational moves to halt the disease have become compromised. This text examines the deep sense of ...
Explores a range of issues--including pediatric hospice, historical, religious, spiritual and cultural perspectives on the end of life, hospice in nursing homes, surrogate decision making, physician assisted suicide, organ donation, and our society's legal tenants of end-of-life care. Includes an index.
Do men and women grieve differently? This new text, while emphasizing that there are many ways to cope with grief, offers a refreshing change from the popular gender stereotypes of grief. Organized into three main parts, this topical new text begins by defining terms, introducing and delineating the grief patterns, and rooting the book's concept ...
In this comprehensive book, leading researchers and mental-health care professionals explore the myriad of instances in which grief is an entirely natural response to loss and yet because the loss is not openly acknowledged, socially sanctioned, or publicly shared, the mourner is deprived of the catharsis that shared grief can bring.
Polls affirm that vast majorities of North Americans both believe in God and consider religion important in their lives. This is clearly evident when one faces the crisis of dying or bereavement. For, one of the strengths of belief is that it provides support and succor at a time when secular explanations are largely silent. For these reasons, ...
This useful book is a comprehensive and holistic guide for counselors, social workers, and health care professionals as they assist clients experiencing a serious illness. The book builds on a model developed by the author and based upon earlier work by Avery Weisman and E. M. Patterson.The model views illness as a series of phases - a ...
Provides an overview of the elderly population who have developmental disabilities. This book attempts to assess their needs and their lives as they age. In many ways, this is a pioneer population, one of the first generations of persons with developmental disabilities who have survived into later life.
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