BookDVDLiving with Grief® Series

Before and After the Death

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This book is a companion text to the Living with Grief® series. Leading experts in the field of grief offer careful assessment of topics like anticipatory grief and mourning, professional self-care, DSM-V classification, disenfranchised grief, and other insights into the field of grief and bereavement. In addition to featuring the insights of top professionals, the book offers personal accounts of grief and references for further reading.

The book also features contributions from Kenneth Doka (editor), Carla Sofka, Charles Corr, and Dennis Klass. Doka, K.J. (Ed.) (2007) Washington, DC, Hospice Foundation of America, 365 pp. This book is indexed.

Living with Grief®: Before and After the Death (DVD) features a panel discussion exploring the most current theoretical perspectives on loss and grief as experienced by persons throughout a life-limiting illness and by survivors after the death.

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Table of Contents

Foreword (J. William Worden)

Acknowledgments

Section I: The Dying Process: Understanding Anticipatory grief and Anticipatory Mourning

1.  Anticipatory Grief and Mourning: An Overview (Charles A. Corr)
Voices: A Chunk for Crystal (Elizabeth Uppman)
2.  Life Review, Paradox, and Self-Esteem (James J. Magee)
3.  Supporting Families During the Process of Death (Carla J. Sofka)
4.  The Role of the Funeral as Survivors Cope with Death (Paul E. Irion)

Section II: Grief: new Insights and Developments

5.  Challenging the Paradigm: New Understandings of Grief (Kenneth J. Doka)
Voices: Expressing Grief for an Infant Son (Dennis Ryan)
6.  Grief as a Transformative Struggle (Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun)
7.  Grief: What we Have Learned from Cross-Cultural Studies (Paul C. Rosenblatt)
Voices: Two Months Later (Jane Yolen)
8.  Complicated Grief: The Debate Over a New DSM-V Diagnostic Category (Colin Murray Parkes)

Section III: Implications For Practice

9.   The Bright Side of Grief Counseling: Deconstructing the New Pessimism (Dale G. Larson and William T. Hoyt)
10.  Helping Built on Personal Experience (Phyllis R. Silverman)
11.  Meaning Breaking, Meaning Making: Rewriting Stories of Loss (Robert A. Neimeyer)
12.  Working with Children and Adolescents (David E. Balk)
Voices: Reflections (Keith Whitehead)
13.  Inner Reality and Social Reality: Bonds with Dead Children and the Resolution of Grief (Dennis Klass)
14.  The Death of a Parent of an Adult Child (Miriam S. Moss and Sidney Z. Moss)
15.  Grief Counseling with Families: Meaning Making in the Family During the Dying Process (Kathleen R. Gilbert)
16.  Countering Empathic Failure: Supporting Disenfranchised Grievers (Dana G. Cable and Terry L. Martin)

Section IV: The Importance of Self-Care

17.  Lessons Before Dying (Joyce D. Davidson)
18.  Caring for the Professional Caregivers: Before and After Death (Mary L. S. Vachon)
Selected Resources: Lisa McGahey Veglahn     

Index