For patients and family caregivers the journey through illness and transitions of care is characterized by a series of progressive physical and emotional losses. Grief reactions represent the natural response to those losses. Grief is defined by a constellation of physical, cogn…
"Grief is a family affair. When a loved one dies, the distress reverberates throughout the immediate and extended family. Family therapy has long attended to issues of loss and grief, yet not as the dominant therapeutic paradigm. Family Grief Therapy changes that: it is a practi…
Grief is a family affair. When a loved one dies, the distress reverberates throughout the immediate and extended family. Family therapy has long attended to issues of loss and grief, yet not as the dominant therapeutic paradigm. Bereavement Care for Families changes that: it is …
"Grief is a family affair. When a loved one dies, the distress reverberates throughout the immediate and extended family. Family therapy has long attended to issues of loss and grief, yet not as the dominant therapeutic paradigm. Family Grief Therapy changes that: it is a practi…
Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is an authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement. Its chapters synthesize the best of research-based conceptualization and clinical wisdom across 30 of the most important topics in the field, includ…
In Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence: Therapeutic Interventions and Theoretical Considerations, experts explore the varied, often complex, and always tragic circumstances under which young people face losing a parent. Profound grief and feelings of powerless…
The worst thing that could ever happen -- A bit of history -- Sadness and laughter -- Resilience -- Whatever gets you through the night -- Relief -- When grief takes over -- Terror and curiosity -- Between was and is and will be -- Global soul -- Chinese bereavement ritual -- An…
"Political, economic, social, cultural, and technological changes have led to profound transformation in the ways that death and loss are perceived and managed in contemporary society. Over the last few decades, the long-term shift to chronic illness as a major causal factor has…