Death, dying, and bereavement : contemporary perspectives, institutions, and practices /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Springer Publishing Company,
[2015]
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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.