Status
Available
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Publication
Washington, D.C. : Hospice Foundation of America
ISBN
9781893349087
Description
Advice for the process of moving through the grief of losing a child.
Local notes
Living with Grief: Before and After the Death is an investigation of the most current theoretical perspectives on grief and bereavement. Featuring 18 articles, personal essays, and further resources, Before and After the Death is a helpful guide for those who grieve as well as those who care for the grieving. Topics discussed include: anticipatory grief, complicated grief, reminiscence and meaning making, mutual support groups, grieving children, and professional self-care.
CONTENTS:
Foreword / J. William Worden -- Acknowledgments -- Section 1 : The dying process : understanding anticipatory grief and anticipatory mourning -- 1. Anticipatory grief and mourning : an overview / Charles A. Corr -- Voices : A chunk of crystal / Elizabeth Uppman -- 2. Life review, paradox, and self-esteem / James, J. Magee -- 3. Supporting families during the process of death / Carla J. Sofka -- 4. The role of the funeral as survivors cope with death / Paul E. Irion -- Section 2 : Grief : new insights and developments -- 5. Challenging the paradigm : new understandings of grief / Kenneth J. Doka -- Voices : Expressing grief for an infant son / Dennis Ryan -- 6. Grief as a transformative struggle / Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun -- 7. Grief : what we have learned from cross-cultural studies / Paul C. Rosenblatt -- Voices : Two months later / Jane Yolen -- 8. Complicated grief : the debate over a new DSM-V diagnostic category / Colin Murray Parkes.
Section 3 : Implications for practice -- 9. The bright side of grief counseling : deconstructing the new pessimism / Dale G. Larson and William T. Hoyt -- 10. Helping built on personal experience / Phyllis R. Silverman -- 11. Meaning breaking, meaning making : rewriting stories of loss / Robert A. Neimeyer -- 12. Working with children and adolescents / David E. Balk -- Voices : Reflections / Keith Whitehead -- 13. Inner reality and social reality : bonds with dead children and the resolution of grief / Dennis Klass -- 14. The death of a parent of an adult child / Miriam S. Moss and Sidney Z. Moss -- 15. Grief counseling with families : meaning making in the family during the dying process / Kathleen R. Gilbert -- 16. Countering empathic failure : supporting disenfranchised grievers / Dana G. Cable and Terry L. Martin -- Section 4 : The importance of self-care -- 17. Lessons before dying / Joyce D. Davidson -- 18. Caring for the professional caregivers : before and after the death / Mary L.S. Vachon -- 19. Selected resources / Lisa McGahey Veglahn -- Index.
CONTENTS:
Foreword / J. William Worden -- Acknowledgments -- Section 1 : The dying process : understanding anticipatory grief and anticipatory mourning -- 1. Anticipatory grief and mourning : an overview / Charles A. Corr -- Voices : A chunk of crystal / Elizabeth Uppman -- 2. Life review, paradox, and self-esteem / James, J. Magee -- 3. Supporting families during the process of death / Carla J. Sofka -- 4. The role of the funeral as survivors cope with death / Paul E. Irion -- Section 2 : Grief : new insights and developments -- 5. Challenging the paradigm : new understandings of grief / Kenneth J. Doka -- Voices : Expressing grief for an infant son / Dennis Ryan -- 6. Grief as a transformative struggle / Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun -- 7. Grief : what we have learned from cross-cultural studies / Paul C. Rosenblatt -- Voices : Two months later / Jane Yolen -- 8. Complicated grief : the debate over a new DSM-V diagnostic category / Colin Murray Parkes.
Section 3 : Implications for practice -- 9. The bright side of grief counseling : deconstructing the new pessimism / Dale G. Larson and William T. Hoyt -- 10. Helping built on personal experience / Phyllis R. Silverman -- 11. Meaning breaking, meaning making : rewriting stories of loss / Robert A. Neimeyer -- 12. Working with children and adolescents / David E. Balk -- Voices : Reflections / Keith Whitehead -- 13. Inner reality and social reality : bonds with dead children and the resolution of grief / Dennis Klass -- 14. The death of a parent of an adult child / Miriam S. Moss and Sidney Z. Moss -- 15. Grief counseling with families : meaning making in the family during the dying process / Kathleen R. Gilbert -- 16. Countering empathic failure : supporting disenfranchised grievers / Dana G. Cable and Terry L. Martin -- Section 4 : The importance of self-care -- 17. Lessons before dying / Joyce D. Davidson -- 18. Caring for the professional caregivers : before and after the death / Mary L.S. Vachon -- 19. Selected resources / Lisa McGahey Veglahn -- Index.