Anticipatory Grief

Deals with the psychosocial aspects of dying and the emotional needs of the dying patient.

CONTENTS:
pt. 1. Introductory concepts. Some dynamics of anticipatory grief
C. Knight Aldrich
Notes on anticipatory grief
Arthur M. Arkin
Is mourning necessary?
Avery D. Weisman
A societal response
Margot Tallmer
Anticipatory bereavement
Irwin Gerber
Dying, death, and social behavior
Vanderlyn R. Pine
The concept of anticipatory grief from a research perspective
Stanley Budner
Suggested stages and response styles in life-threatening illness: a focus on the cancer patient
Stephen V. Gullo, Daniel J. Cherico, and Robert Shadick
Dying: dromenon versus drama
Joseph H. Meyerowitz
pt. 2. Clinical aspects. A surgical oncologist's observations
Benjamin F. Rush, Jr.
Organ transplantation
Lois K. Christopherson and Thomas A. Gonda
Anticipatory grief and cancer
Guy F. Robbins
The patient and prolonged terminal malignant disease: experiences from a radiation therapy center
Richard J. Torpie
Anticipatory grief in a cancer hospital
Martha W. Atchley, Susan Blecker Cohen, and Lois Weinstein
Variations on a theme: case reports from cancer care
Irene G. Buckley and Ruth Michaels
pt. 3. Childhood illness. Parental anticipatory grief and guidelines for caregivers
Brenda Comerford
The thoughts of a bereaved father
Milton Graub
Management of parental anticipatory grief
Rudolf Toch
Parents of fatally ill children in a parents' group
Irving J. Borstein and Annette Klein
I know, do you? A study of awareness, communication, and coping in terminally ill children
Myra Bluebond-Langner
Implications for therapy in the pediatric patient
Martin I. Lorin
Anticipatory grief and going on the "danger list"
John E. Schowalter
Cancer in adolescents: the symptom is the thing
Marjorie M. Plumb and Jimmie Holland. pt. 4. The health professions. Medical school curriculumand anticipatory grief: faculty attitudes
Anticipatory grief in physicians and nurses
Jeanne Quint Benoliel
Anticipatory grief and the disciplined professions
James O. Carpenter and Georgia Hall
The social worker's responsibility
Elizabeth R. Prichard
Selected tasks for the dying patient and family members
Mary T. Ramshorn
Social work: its institutional role
Phyllis Caroff and Rose Dobrof
pt. 5. The management of anticipatory grief. The vectors and vital signs in grief synchronization
Carl A. Nighswonger
Anticipatory grief and mourning
H. Robert Blank
Reflections on two false expectations
Robert B. Reeves
Psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy as enablers in the anticipatory grief of a dying patient: a
case study
Eda E. Goldstein and Sidney Malitz
LSD therapy: a case study
Charles Clay Dahlberg
Drug ingestion and suicide during anticipatory grief
Bruce L. Danto
The ministry and a parents' sharing group: preliminary report
LeRoy G. Kerney
Anticipatory grief from the perspective of widowhood
Phyllis R. Silverman
pt. 6. Pastoral aspects. Initiatory grief
Robert E. Neale
Anticipatory grief
Irwin M. Blank
Anticipatory grief work
Allan W. Reed
Ritual and therapy
Thomas Nolan. pt. 1. Introductory concepts
pt. 2. Clinical aspects
pt. 3. Childhood illness
pt. 4. The health professions
5. The management of anticipatory grief
pt. 6. Pastoral aspects.