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Offers a critical review of the main psychological theories on adaptation after loss followed by an overview of the results of the empirical research on bereavement. It also reflects on the results of the Leiden Bereavement Study, which compares the

Compassion-Based Approaches in Loss and Grief introduces clinicians to a wide array of strategies and frameworks for engaging clients throughout the loss experience, particularly when those experiences have a protracted course.In the book, clinicians and researchers from around the world and from a variety of fields explore ways to cultivate compassion and how to implement compassion-based clinical practices specifically designed to address loss, grief, and bereavement.Students, scholars, and mental health and healthcare professionals will come away from this important book with a deepened understanding of compassion-based approaches and strategies for enhancing distress tolerance, maintaining focus, and identifying the clinical interventions best suited to clients' needs.

How can someone attempt to cease parenting a deceased child while maintaining the role with his/her other children? Is it possible for a mother or father to effectively deal with feelings of grief and loss while simultaneously helping their surviving children? This title addresses these questions.

This innovative and informative new text bridges the fields of gerontology and thanatology.

Shadows in the Sun explores the history of the study of sibling bereavement. The book also covers the immediate, short- and long-term responses and subsequent generational effects.

Treatment of suicidal people takes three forms: prevention - strategies to avert conditions leading to suicide; intervention - treatment and care during the crisis; and postvention - response after the event has occurred. Here the focus is on the state of the art of intervention.

Shneidman is recognised as the central figure in the field of suicidology. This collection of his writings spans the entirety of his career and offers a unique insight into the development of his thinking.

Offers a comprehensive overview of the developments that have impacted decision-making processes within the field of end-of-life care. This title examines various aspects of end-of-life choices and decision-making, including communication, advance directives, and the emergence of hospice and palliative care institutions.

Art and other expressive therapies are increasingly used in grief counseling, not only among children and adolescents, but throughout the developmental spectrum. This book includes an 8-session curriculum for use with grief support groups as well as alternative modalities of grief art therapy. It is filled with pictures and instructional detail.

Music has a unique ability to elicit a whole range of powerful emotional responses in people - even so for as altering or enhancing one's mood - as well as physical reactions. With many exercises and examples, this title guides the reader through principles, techniques, and exercises for incorporating music into grief counseling.

This new text provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of loss via exploration into three major types of loss: imortant relationships, those that damage our self-esteem and losses resulting from victimization.

Addressing the basis and need for support groups for the bereaved, this book presents a theoretical overview, examines benefits and variety of support groups structured and unstructural, special populations and specifics for initiating, organising and running them, such as publicity.

Explores what couple and individual stories say and do not say about the child's dying and death and about parent grief. The author uses narratives as his tool for the introduction and exploration of the many facets of parental grief.

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Intended to stimulate ideas and research in the new area of psychological aspects of loss, this sourcebook collects the writing of a set of distinguished scholars representing psychology and related fields.

Techniques of Grief Therapy: Assessment and Intervention continues where the acclaimed Techniques of Grief Therapy: Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved left off, offering a whole new set of innovative approaches to grief therapy to address the needs of the bereaved.

Non-Death Loss and Grief explores recent research, clinical applications, and current thinking on various types of non-death losses and the unique features of the grieving process that accompanies them.

Any clinician¿expressive arts therapist, grief counselor, or something in between¿looking for a professionally oriented but scientifically informed book for guidance and inspiration need look no further than Grief and the Expressive Arts.

Any clinician¿expressive arts therapist, grief counselor, or something in between¿looking for a professionally oriented but scientifically informed book for guidance and inspiration need look no further than Grief and the Expressive Arts.

An up-to-date examination of the ways people face dying and bereavement. Revised and updated, this third edition covers such diverse areas as psychology, nursing, medicine, AIDS, education, philosophy, and law, whilst highlighting thanatology's core psychological and therapeutic dimensions.

An up-to-date examination of the ways people face dying and bereavement. Revised and updated, this third edition covers such diverse areas as psychology, nursing, medicine, AIDS, education, philosophy, and law, whilst highlighting thanatology's core psychological and therapeutic dimensions.

This new edition provides an update of developments in the field of research into the education of elderly people. The volume probes topics such as implications for education for the ageing, reminiscence, methods of teaching, social exchange and equal opportunity.

Non-Death Loss and Grief explores recent research, clinical applications, and current thinking on various types of non-death losses and the unique features of the grieving process that accompanies them.

Understanding Child and Adolescent Grief incorporates theory, clinical applications, case studies, and current research on contemporary models of grief pertaining to children and adolescents.

Sibling Loss Across the Lifespan brings together researchers, clinicians, and bereaved siblings to explore sibling loss.

Techniques of Grief Therapy is an indispensable guidebook to the most inventive and inspirational interventions in grief and bereavement counseling and therapy. Individually, each technique emphasizes creativity and practicality.