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The workplace is not immune to the problems, pressures, and challenges presented by experiences of loss and trauma and the grief reactions they produce. This book offers insights and understanding to help us appreciate the difficulties involved and prepare ourselves for dealing with such demanding situations when they arise.

Looks at families that have faced murder and how they have dealt with the trauma. This work offers an interpretation of personal accounts of homicide survivors in order to understand the particular nature of homicide bereavement. It offers an unique perspective and experiential base for examining the phenomenon of homicide bereavement.

Imparts information for those touched by deaths and losses of HIV/AIDS. This work provides guidance, support and coping skills, along with discussions of death language; AIDS grief; death in the workplace; and cultural and spiritual issues around death.

Attempts to bring about an understanding of the grief associated with reproductive loss and, through the Healing Process Model[copyright], offers a holistic approach for constructive healthy grieving and healing of body, mind, and spirit.

Contain the author's experiences when her beloved grandson, Alex, died. Through her personal story she touches the universal in all grandparents' grief.

Examines friendgrief from a theoretical and clinical framework. This book offers vignettes from the lives of well-known friendgrievers such as Elton John, Diane Sawyer, Ralph Abernathy, C S Lewis, Harry Truman, Tommy Lasorda, Jimmy Carter, Fritz Mondale, Bill Clinton, Calvin Trillin, and Alan King.

Rarely heard about in our society are caregivers' thoughts and feelings about life, death, and dying and how they act on those feelings. This title provides a look at the experiences of oncology healthcare professionals as they work with terminally ill patients.

Examines grief in special populations, including the mentally ill, POW-MIA survivors, the differentially-abled, suicide survivors, bereaved children, those experiencing death at birth, death in schools, and palliative-care death.

Giving an introduction to philosophical thanatology, this work challenges the reader to develop a disciplined and focused awareness of his/her own mortality, and to grapple with the implications. It also explores issues in philosophy, ethics, developmental psychology, psychoanalytic psychology, idealistic humanism, sociology, and other humanities.

A guide for clinicians to operationally define, understand, and responsibly treat complex post-traumatic stress and grief syndromes in the context of the unique varieties of police personality styles.

Looks at families that have faced murder and how they have dealt with the trauma. This work offers an interpretation of personal accounts of homicide survivors in order to understand the particular nature of homicide bereavement. It offers an unique perspective and experiential base for examining the phenomenon of homicide bereavement.

The blessing of longer life has brought with it a host of new issues faced by the elderly, their families, and their caregivers. Ethical Issues in the Care of the Dying and Bereaved Aged , twenty-three essays by some of the most eminent thinkers in the field of death and bereavement, addresses some of these problems.

Death and Spirituality reaches two, perhaps overlapping, audiences.

The editors undertook this project to promote the International Conference on Death, Grief, and Bereavement in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. Throughout its history, the conference has attracted internationally known speakers. This book illustrates the quality of their presentations.

Looks at the nature and types of violence, the causes of violence, and the emotional wake left by violent episodes. This title focuses on the need to better understand violence, both lethal and non-lethal, to become aware of the many forms of violence, and to learn how to survive in the aftermath of violent death.

Addresses issues and feelings commonly encountered after the death of a pet. This work provides practical guidelines for coping with feelings of loss and sorrow. "Are your other pets grieving?" and "Should I get another pet right away?" are other questions addressed. It also explains the medical aspect of euthanasia.

Intended to complement scriptural and theological studies, this volume has a philosophical methodology. Since the belief in a continuation of life after death or reunion with deceased loved ones offers consolation to many people, this book examines the possibility of human immortality. It also presents various rational arguments.

Few areas in life have experienced the rapid pace of change that has been the experience of health care. It's an area where nothing feels "safe" and everything is threatened with reexamination and redefinition. This title explores this area that is continually being introduced to treatments, challenges, people, expectations, and time limits.

Provides discussions on the meaning of life and death. This anthology explores the process of meaning-making in the face of death and the roles of religion and spirituality at times of loss; the profound and devastating experience of loss in the death of a spouse or a child; a psychological model of spirituality; and dimensions of spirituality.

Surviving the death of a brother or sister is not a phase of life that eventually passes. Sibling survival is a life-long achievement. This guide recognizes this and celebrates not only the life of the brother or sister who has died but the lives and spirits of their sibling survivors.

Theorizes how matters concerning the birth of the universe, its fate, and the creation, evolution, and final destiny of life on earth co-exist with regenerated consciousness.

Examines grief in special populations, including the mentally ill, POW-MIA survivors, the differentially-abled, suicide survivors, bereaved children, those experiencing death at birth, death in schools, and palliative-care death.

Begins with a general discussion of the types of grief that result from death and non-death losses. This guide uses statements made by parents whose children were murdered, and discusses the specifics of murdered-child grief including, the complex emotions felt by the grieving parents.

Giving an introduction to philosophical thanatology, this work challenges the reader to develop a disciplined and focused awareness of his/her own mortality, and to grapple with the implications. It also explores issues in philosophy, ethics, developmental psychology, psychoanalytic psychology, idealistic humanism, sociology, and other humanities.

Attempts to understand the impact of terminal illness on the entire family system and seeks to develop a theoretical framework that would guide the assessment of and services to such families.

Offering an insider perspective from a 'cop doc on the job,' this book for clinicians defines and treats what Dan Rudofossi terms Police and Public Safety Complex PTSD. It helps in understanding of how to work with police officers who experience cumulative loss in trauma.

Contain the author's experiences when her beloved grandson, Alex, died. Through her personal story she touches the universal in all grandparents' grief.