Loss and grief : a guide for human services practitioners

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Loss and grief : a guide for human services practitioners

edited by Neil Thompson ; consultant editor, Jo Campling

Palgrave, 2002

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-244) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This edited volume explores the wide range of practice situations across the human services in which issues loss and grief are likely to be important. It also extends understandings of loss and grief beyond death-related losses, encompassing new developments in the theoretical literature. Addressing the social and political dimensions of loss and grief as well as the psychological dimensions, this text brings together contributors from a variety of disciplines, professional background and countries, including such renowned figures as Dame Cicely Saunders and Robert A.Neimeyer.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • J.D.Morgan.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- PART 1: LOSS IN CONTEXT.- The Philosophy of Hospice
  • C.Saunders.- Spirituality: A Personal View
  • B.Moss.- Meaning Reconstruction Theory
  • R.Neimeyer and A. Anderson.- Race and Culture
  • S.Desai and D.Bevan.- Gender
  • G.Riches.- Poverty and Deprivationy
  • D.Bevan.- PART 2: ARENAS OF LOSS.- Children and Divorce
  • B.Kroll.- Adoption and Substitute Care
  • M.Romaine.- Disability
  • B.Sapey.- Ill-Health
  • J.Katz.- Older People
  • S.Thompson.- Losses and Justice: An Australian Perspective
  • J.Dawes.- PART 3: WORKING WITH LOSS.- Teaching and Learning about Loss
  • J.Weinstein.- A Framework for Working with Loss
  • M.Lloyd.- References.- Index.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA56897255
  • ISBN
    • 0333963288
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Basingstoke
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 249 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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