Before and After the Death - Table of Contents

Foreword
J.William Worden

Acknowledgments

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SECTION I
THE DYING PROCESS: UNDERSTANDING ANTICIPATORY GRIEF AND ANTICIPATORYMOURNING

1. Anticipatory Grief and Mourning: An Overview
Charles A. Corr
Voices: A Chunk of Crystal
Elizabeth Uppman

2. Life Review, Paradox, and Self-Esteem
James J. Magee

3. Supporting Families Through the Process of Death
Carla Sofka

4. The Role of the Funeral as Survivors Cope with Death
Paul E. Irion

SECTION II
GRIEF: NEW INSIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENTS

5. Challenging the Paradigm: New Understandings of Grief
Kenneth J. Doka
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Voices: Experiencing Grief for an Infant Son
Dennis Ryan

6. Grief as a Transformative Struggle
Richard G. Tedeschi & Lawrence G. Calhoun

7. Grief:What Have We Learned from Cross-Cultural Studies?
Paul C. Rosenblatt
Voices: Two Months Later
Jane Yolen

8. Complicated Grief: The Debate over a new DSM-V Diagnostic Category
Colin Murray Parkes

SECTION III
IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE

9. The Bright Side of Grief Counseling: Deconstructing the New Pessimism
Dale G. Larson and William T. Hoyt

10. Helping Build on Your Experience with a Problem: Mutual Help
Phyllis R. Silverman

11. Making Sense of Loss
Robert A. Neimeyer

12. Working with Children and Adolescents
David E. Balk
Voices: Reflections
Whitehead

13. Inner Reality and Social Reality: Bonds With Dead Children and the Resolution of Grief
Dennis Klass

14. The Death of A Parent of an Adult Child
Miriam S. Moss & Sidney Z. Moss

15. Grief Counseling with Families: Meaning Making in the Family During the Dying Process
Kathleen R. Gilbert

16. Countering Empathic Failure: Supporting Disenfranchised Grievers
Dana G. Cable and Terry L. Martin

PART IV: THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF-CARE

17. Lessons Before Dying
Joyce D. Davidson

18. Caring for the Professional Caregivers: Before and After the Death
Mary L. S. Vachon
 

19. Selected Resources
Lisa McGahey Veglahn

INDEX

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