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Given the relationship between trauma, loss, and interpersonal bonds, the editors have assembled a noteworthy list of contributions discussing trauma associated with close relationships (divorce, infertility, widowhood). Certainly, trauma is closely associated with loss.

This text is a valuable resource for clinicians who work with clients dealing with non-death, nonfinite, and ambiguous losses in their lives. It explores adjustment to change, transition, and loss from the perspective of the latest thinking in bereavement theory and research. The specific and unique aspects of different types of loss are discussed, such as infertility, aging, chronic illnesses and degenerative conditions, divorce and separation, immigration, adoption, loss of beliefs, and loss of employment. Harris and the contributing authors consider these from an experiential perspective, rather than a developmental one, in order to focus on the key elements of each loss as it may be experienced at any point in the lifespan. Concepts related to adaptation and coping with loss, such as resilience, hardiness, meaning making and the assumptive world, transcendence, and post traumatic growth are considered as part of the integration of loss into everyday life experience.

Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society synthesizes the best of research-based conceptualization and clinical wisdom across 30 of the most important topics in the field, including the implementation of specific models in clinical practice, family therapy for bereavement, complicated grief, spirituality, and more.

Facing Death is a unique handbook for educators, healthcare professionals and counselors. It uses materials from the visual arts, excerpts from poetry, fiction, drama, and examples from popular culture to sensitize the reader to important, universal issues confronting the dying, and those responsible for their care.

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.

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.

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.