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Managing Conflict, Finding Meaning

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Living with Grief®: Managing Conflict Finding Meaning: Supporting Families at Life’s End is the companion book (ISBN: 978-1-893349-20-9) to the Living with Grief® program and examines how to better help families cope with the inevitable conflicts that arise during the difficult journey through end-of-life care.

Using various case studies and insights from clinicians, professionals, and leading researchers, this book illustrates the challenges surrounding dying and grieving as well as opportunities that may arise from crises.

Authors include John G. Cagle, Marie Ribarich, Pam Shockey Stephenson, and other leading experts in the field. The 18 chapters delve into material featuring new perspectives on difficult situations. Doka, K.J. (Ed) (2016) Washington, DC, Hospice Foundation of America, 144 pp. This book is indexed.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Overview: Professional Responses to Family Conflict at the End of Life (Amy Z. Boelk and Betty Kramer)

Part I: Managing Conflict

      1.  Susan’s Story: Triumph Over Addiction at the End of Life (Marie Ribarich)
      2.  The Management of Patient Pain as a Potential Source of Family Conflict (John G. Cagle)
      3.  Caring for a Patient with Schizophrenia at the End of Life (Pam Shockey Stephenson and nan Grottanelli)
      4.  Family Conflicts in Caregiving and Treatment (Myra Glajchen and Maj Eisinger)
      5.  A Request for Nondisclosure of Hospice Care (Kenneth J. Doka)
      6.  The Importance of Culturally Competent Family Meetings (Sherry R. Schachter and Raman Randhawa)
      7.  Gilbert and Edwin: Life and Death Transitions (Doneley Meris)
      8.  Military Family Bereavement: Nonverbal Conflict (Jill Harrington-LaMorie)
      9.  Helping Staff Deal with Difficult Deaths (Kenneth J. Doka)

Part II: Finding Meaning

      10.  Having Their Stories Heard: Dignity Therapy at the End of Life (Lori P. Montross-Thomas and Andrea N. Trejo)
      11.  Understanding the Grief Responses of Military Children (Donna Burns Stewart)
      12.  Posttraumatic Growth: Forging New Meaning and Purpose after Loss (Bret A. Moore)
      13.  What a year it’s been: Coping After Suicide (Joanne L. Harpel)
      14.  The Impact of Military Culture on Suicide Prevention and Postvention: A Family Perspective (Kim Ruocco)
      15.  You were born, still: The Search for Meaning in Perinatal Loss (Robert A. Neimeyer)
      16.  Meaning Making Following the Death of an Adult Child (Zaneta M. Gileno)
      17.  The Use of Therapeutic Ritual (Kenneth J. Doka)
      18.  Complicated Grief Treatment (M. Katherine Shear, Natalia A. Skritskaya, and Colleen Gribbin)

Index