Understanding Loss and Grief: A Guide Through Life Changing Events

✍ Scribed by Nanette Burton Mongelluzzo

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Loss and grief are universal experiences and much has been written about both. This books takes a "long view" of both and considers the variety of ways we experience loss and grief - whether through the actual death of a loved one, including a beloved pet, or losses experienced through divorce, medical problems, natural disasters (material items) -

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Defining Loss, Grief, and Bereavement
2 Loss as a Lifelong Process, Life Events, and the Loss Continuum
3 An Overview of Some Personal Losses
4 As Loss Relates to the Action of Another
5 The Inevitable Types of Loss
6 The Family Constellation of Loss Scenarios
7 Special Considerations about Loss Suicide
8 Extended Loss
9 Global, Environmental, and Geographical Loss
10 The Physiology of Loss and Grief
11 Grieving Styles
12 Across the Globe: Multicultural Understanding of Grief
13 Complicated Grief and Mourning
14 Traumatic Grief and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
15 Coping Strategies for Loss and Grief
16 Therapy, Counseling, Psychiatry, and Medication
17 Alternative Therapies
18 Unhealthy Coping and the Dangers of Self-Medicating
Bibliography
Index
About the Author