The World of Bereavement: Cultural Perspectives on Death in Families

✍ Scribed by Joanne Cacciatore, John DeFrain (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Series: International and Cultural Psychology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This visionary work explores the sensitive balance between the personal and private aspects of grief, the social and cultural variables that unite communities in bereavement, and the universal experience of loss. Its global journey takes readers into the processes of coping, ritual, and belief across established and emerging nations, indigenous cultures, and countries undergoing major upheavals, richly detailed by native scholars and practitioners. In these pages, culture itself is recognized as formed through many lenses, from the ancestral to the experiential. The human capacity to mourn, endure, and make meaning is examined in papers such as:

• Death, grief, and culture in Kenya: experiential strengths-based research.
• Death and grief in Korea: the continuum of life and death.
• To live with death: loss in Romanian culture.
• The Brazilian ways of living, dying, and grieving.
• Death and bereavement in Israel: Jewish, Muslim, and Christian perspectives.
• Completing the circle of life: death and grief among Native Americans.
• It is always normal to remember: death, grief, and culture in Australia.

The World of Bereavement will fascinate and inspire clinicians, providers, and researchers in the field of death studies as well as privately-held professional training programs and the bereavement community in general.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Death, Grief and Culture in Kenya: Experiential Strengths-Based Research....Pages 3-23
A Somali Perspective on Death, Grief, and Culture....Pages 25-39
Strategies for Healing from Disenfranchised Grief: A Case Study from Botswana....Pages 41-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Grieving Rituals and Beliefs of Chinese Families....Pages 69-80
Death and Grief in Korea: The Continuum of Life and Death....Pages 81-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Bereavement and Grief in Greece....Pages 101-120
The Vision of Death in Romanian Culture....Pages 121-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Death and Grief in Mexican Families....Pages 131-145
The Brazilian Ways of Living, Dying, and Grieving....Pages 147-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Death and Bereavement in Israel: Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Perspectives....Pages 161-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Perinatal Death and Grief in Canada....Pages 179-208
A Moment of Grace: Child Death in the United States....Pages 209-219
Completing the Circle of Life: Death and Grief Among Native Americans....Pages 221-239
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
It Is Normal to Remember: Death and Grief in Australia....Pages 243-263
Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu: Although Small, It Is Precious : Death and Grief After Perinatal Death in Aotearoa/New Zealand....Pages 265-286
Epilogue: Grief, Bereavement, and Ritual Across Cultures....Pages 287-298
Back Matter....Pages 299-305

✦ Subjects

Cross Cultural Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Psychotherapy and Counseling