Death, Value and Meaning Series
Heavenly Hurts: Surviving AIDS-related Deaths and Losses
1st Edition
By Sandra Jacoby Klein
August 14, 2018
"Heavenly Hurts Surviving AIDS-Related Deaths and Losses" imparts vital information for anyone touched by deaths and losses of HIV/AIDS. In the AIDS pandemic, efforts are focused on persons living with AIDS (PLWA). Neglected are professional and non-professional caregivers, families, and friends. ...
When a Child Has Been Murdered: Ways You Can Help the Grieving Parents
1st Edition
By Bonnie Hunt Conrad
August 14, 2018
"When a Child Has Been Murdered: Ways You Can Help the Grieving Parents" is a concise, easy- to-read guide that begins with a general discussion of the types of grief that result from death and non-death losses. Then, using statements made by parents whose children were murdered, it discusses the ...
Grandparents Cry Twice: Help for Bereaved Grandparents
1st Edition
By Mary Lou Reed
March 29, 2017
"Grandparents Cry Twice: Help for Bereaved Grandparents" is a book about grandparents' dual sorrow when a grandchild dies. They cry for their lost grandchild and they also cry for the terrible grief they see their own child having to bear. The author, Mary Lou Reed, writes of her experiences when ...
Perspectives on Violence and Violent Death
1st Edition
By Robert Stevenson, Gerry Cox
March 29, 2017
This book examines violence. It looks at the nature and types of violence, the causes of violence, and the emotional wake left by violent episodes. In the twentieth century, the world experienced two world wars and countless other wars. Many millions died violent deaths from murder, death squads, ...
Step into Our Lives at the Funeral Home
1st Edition
By Jo Michaelson, Dale Lund
March 29, 2017
Many people are curious about what goes on behind the scenes at a funeral home. Add a live-in family to this scenario, and you'll Step Into Our Lives at the Funeral Home. Shh! Be quiet! There's someone at the door! Don't ever talk about anything you have seen or heard concerning someone's death ...
Wrestling with the Angel: Literary Writings and Reflections on Death, Dying and Bereavement
1st Edition
By Kent Koppelman, Dale Lund
March 29, 2017
Wrestling with the Angel addresses the human struggle to cope with death, dying, grief, and bereavement. The book includes essays, a one-act play, a short story, and poetry, including shape poems, rhyming, structured verse, and free verse. In the one-act play, an angel of death comes for a man who ...
A Cop Doc's Guide to Public Safety Complex Trauma Syndrome: Using Five Police Personality Styles
1st Edition
By Daniel Rudofossi, Dale Lund
February 06, 2017
"Cop Doc's Guide to Public Safety Complex Trauma Syndrome" is written in response to the need for an advanced, specialized guide for clinicians to operationally define, understand, and responsibly treat complex post-traumatic stress and grief syndromes in the context of the unique varieties of ...
Loss, Grief, and Trauma in the Workplace
1st Edition
By Neil Thompson, Dale Lund
February 06, 2017
The workplace is not immune to the problems, pressures, and challenges presented by experiences of loss and trauma and the grief reactions they produce. This clearly written, well-crafted book offers important insights and understanding to help us appreciate the difficulties involved and prepare ...
Mending the Torn Fabric: For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them
1st Edition
By Sarah Brabant
November 03, 2016
The analogy of the torn fabric was first used by the author in response to a bereaved mother's cry: "I know what grief feels like; I don't know what it looks like." In "Mending the Torn Fabric: For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them", the author expands the metaphor to include earlier...
Suicide Among the Armed Forces: Understanding the Cost of Service
1st Edition
By Antoon Leenaars
March 30, 2014
Not since the great military suicide epidemic of the American Civil War have we seen so many of our heroes, our soldiers and veterans, die by suicide. Why? War is violence. There is intent to cause death, or serious injury, or threat to the physical and psychological integrity of others. War stress...
Adult Sibling Loss: Stories, Reflections and Ripples
1st Edition
By Brenda Marshall
December 30, 2013
"He was my best friend." "I feel like I've lost that one person I could always count on." Siblings know each other in ways friends and other blood relatives do not. They have shared bedrooms, bathrooms, holidays, family milestones, meals, and a way of growing up that those outside the family can ...
Living, Loving and Loss: The Interplay of Intimacy, Sexuality and Grief
1st Edition
By Brad DeFord, Richard Gilbert
December 30, 2013
One of the unspoken aspects of mourning concerns the ways that loss affects our intimate relationships and our sexual expressiveness. This text opens these subjects for conversation, with the aim of promoting the trust, care, and respect that enable us to be vulnerable. It purposefully covers a ...