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Loss and Grief
A Guide for Human Services Practitioners
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Loss and Grief
A Guide for Human Services Practitioners
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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
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.
Product details
| Published | 19 Apr 2002 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 249 |
| ISBN | 9780333963289 |
| Imprint | Red Globe Press |
| Dimensions | Not specified |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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