Death, dying, and bereavement : contemporary perspectives, institutions, and practices /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer Publishing Company, [2015]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Seeking wisdom about mortality, dying, and bereavement
  • Know thyself: psychology's contributions to thanatology
  • Sociological perspectives on death, dying, and bereavement
  • Science and practice: contributions of nurses to end-of-life and palliative care
  • Legal issues in end-of-life decision making
  • Ethics of caring for the dying and bereaved
  • Theoretical perspectives on loss and grief
  • Psychologization of grief and its depictions within mainstream North American media
  • Development perspectives on death and dying, and maturational losses
  • Hospice care of the dying
  • Hospital-based palliative care
  • Palliative care for children
  • Global spread of hospice and palliative care
  • Death and funeral service
  • Death education at the college and university level
  • Death education as a public health issue
  • Spirituality quo vadis?
  • Using the arts and humanities with the dying, bereaved and ourselves
  • Family support for the dying and bereaved
  • Supporting grieving children
  • Helping each other: building community
  • Treating complicated bereavement: the development of grief therapy
  • When trauma and loss collide: the evolution of intervention for traumatic bereavement
  • To be or not to be: suicide then and now
  • Grief after suicide: the evolution of suicide postvention
  • Responding to grief and trauma in the aftermath of disaster
  • Care of the caregiver: professionals and family members.