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When Grief is Complicated

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While grief is a normal transitional event in the lives of most individuals, some people have complications in coping with loss that merit more intensive support and treatment. Hospice Foundation of America’s publication, When Grief is Complicated, examines the academic research and arguments surrounding complicated grieving through case studies, interventive strategies and historical perspectives.

Book chapters include discussions of risk factors that may influence complicated grief; how traumatic loss affects grief reactions; issues that children face that could complicate grief; and the challenges of establishing grieving norms within a cross-cultural perspective. Authors include William Worden, Robert Niemeyer and Laurie Burke, William Worden, Donna Schuurman, and Edward Rynearson.

This book is part of the Living with Grief® series and is appropriate for clinicians and others working with the dying and bereaved.

The DVD provides an in-depth discussion of complicated grief and interventive strategies with expert panelists, Ken Doka, PhD, MDiv, Robert Neimeyer, PhD, and Therese Rando, PhD, BCETS, BCBT. Moderated by Frank Sesno.

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Table of Contents

PART I:  THE NATURE OF COMPLICATED GRIEF

Complicated Grief in the DSM-5:  A Brief Review

Kenneth J. Doka

Forms of Complicated Grief

William Worden

When Grief Disables

Nancy Boyd Webb

Complicated Grief:  A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Paul C. Rosenblatt

Is Grief Complicated? The Dangers of a Label

Donna L. Schuurman

PART II:  TREATING COMPLICATED GRIEF

What Makes Grief Complicated? Risk Factors for Complicated Bereavement

Robert A. Neimeyer and Laurie A. Burke

Complicated Grief in Children and Adolescents

David A. Crenshaw

The Dynamic Narrative Themes of Violent Dying in Grief

Edward Rynearson

Recognizing and Treating Complicated Grief

Katherine Shear

Index