Diversity and End-of-Life Care: Table of Contents

Foreword - Richard Payne

Acknowledgements

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Section I: Understanding and Responding to Cultural Diversity

  1. Cultural Influences on Death, Dying, and Bereavement: An Overview – Bert Hayslip, Jr. and GiBaeg Han
  2. The Culturally Competent Practitioner – Paul C. Rosenblatt
    Characteristics of Culturally Effective Counselors - Kenneth J. Doka
  3. Ethical Aspects of Cultural Diversity – Bruce Jennings
  4. Diversity and Access to Hospice Care – Richard B. Fife
    Training for Diversity – Richard B. Fife
  5. Cultural Diversity: Implications for Funeral Rituals – Stephen M. Mack and Sumner J. Waring, III

Section II: Ethnicity and Race as Sources of Diversity

  1. Sociocultural Considerations: African Americans, Grief, and Loss – Ronald Barrett
  2. The New Black Migration: Dying and Grief in African and Caribbean Migrants – Penelope J. Moore
  3. Death, Dying and End-of-Life in American-Indian Communities – Gerry R. Cox
  4. Hispanic Cultural Issues in End-of-Life Care – Carlos Sandoval-Cros

Section III: Diverse Spiritualities

  1. Jewish Perspectives on Loss, Grief, and End-of-Life Care – Maurice Lamm
    Orthodox and Hasidic Perspectives – Barry M. Kinzbrunner
  2. Dying and Grief in the Islamic Community – Hasan Shanawani and Syed Zafar
  3. Buddhist Perspectives on Death, Grief, and Loss - Eve Mullen
  4. Christian Evangelicals: The Challenge for Hospice and Palliative Care – Kenneth J. Doka

Section IV: Other Sources of Diversity

  1. Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: Facing Dying and Loss – Claire Lavin
  2. Death and Loss in Deaf Culture – Frank R. Zieziula
  3. Assessment and Management of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Palliative Care Patients – Vyjeyanthi S. Periyakoil
    Men, Women, and Loss: Changing Perspectives on Gender and Grief  - Kenneth J. Doka
  4. Aspects of Death , Grief, and Loss in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities – Brian de Vries

Index

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