Death, Value and Meaning Series
The Disenfranchised: Stories of Life and Grief When an Ex-Spouse Dies
1st Edition
By Peggy Sapphire, Shirley Scott
December 30, 2013
The Disenfranchised: Stories of Life and Grief When an Ex-Spouse Dies offers an unprecedented anthology of never-before-published, first-person life histories by ex-spouses whose grief has endured as disenfranchised: socially unacknowledged, untold, and unrecognised. Each story of disenfranchised ...
Final Acts: The End of Life: Hospice and Palliative Care
1st Edition
By Gerry Cox, Robert Stevenson
November 30, 2013
The editors undertook this project to promote the International Conference on Death, Grief, and Bereavement in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. Throughout its history, the conference has attracted internationally known speakers. This book illustrates the quality of their presentations....
The Death of an Adult Child: A Book for and About Bereaved Parents
1st Edition
By Jeanne Webster Blank
November 30, 2013
This book was written to be a comfort and guide for bereaved parents whose adult child has died; to show by sharing our experiences that we are not alone in our responses to our child's death; that we are not weak, defective in character or otherwise inadequate because of the way we grieve; to ...
Death Education in the Writing Classroom
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Berman
May 15, 2012
Death is often encountered in English courses—Hamlet’s death, celebrity death, death from the terrorist attacks on 9/11—but students rarely have the opportunity to write about their own experiences with death. In Death Education in the Writing Classroom, Jeffrey Berman shows how college students ...
Robbery and Redemption: Cancer as Identity Theft
1st Edition
By Craig Fiedler, Kent Koppelman
May 15, 2012
First Published in 2017. This volume is a totally candid account about the facts and feelings surrounding the diagnosis of and battle against lung cancer—a battle the author waged with every ounce of his being. It has an enlightening quality because he shares how he transformed his previous ...
Guidebook on Helping Persons with Mental Retardation Mourn
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Kauffman
January 01, 2008
The book contributes to an awareness of the significance of loss in the life experience of persons with mental retardation. Experiencing loss may be a very powerful vulnerability in their mental or psychological life, and dealing with this loss is a basic element in psychological health. There has ...
Working with Traumatized Police-Officer Patients: A Clinician's Guide to Complex PTSD Syndromes in Public Safety Professionals
1st Edition
By Daniel Rudofossi, Dale Lund, Alan Benner
September 15, 2007
An insider perspective from a 'cop doc on the job,' this book is the first of its kind written in response to a need for a specialized guide for clinicians that operationally defines and responsibly treats what Dan Rudofossi terms Police and Public Safety Complex PTSD. In reading this book, you are...
Remembering Lives: Conversations with the Dying and the Bereaved
1st Edition
By Lorraine Hedtke, John Winslade
July 30, 2004
Grief is frequently thought of as an ordeal we must simply survive. This book offers a fresh approach to the negotiation of death and grief. It is founded in principles of constructive conversation that focus on "remembering" lives, in contrast to processes of forgetting or dismembering those who ...
Eternity and Me: The Everlasting Things in Life and Death
1st Edition
By Allan Kellehear
June 15, 2004
The 40 short reflections in this book address the ways in which we face the prospect of death and loss. The first 20 reflections are designed to be read by (or to) anyone living with a life-threatening illness; the other 20 are reflections on living with grief, especially bereavement. Each ...
Responding to Loss: A Resource for Caregivers
1st Edition
By Adolf Hansen
June 15, 2004
Reading this book, caregivers will find ways to increase their effectiveness by understanding more fully what their care receivers are experiencing, by finding creative ways to assist them in processing what is happening, and by working with them to discern responses to loss that are emotionally ...
Pet Death
1st Edition
By Sandra Helene Straub
September 01, 2003
In "Pet Death", Dr. Straub addresses issues and feelings commonly encountered after the death of a pet. Practical guidelines are provided for coping with feelings of loss and sorrow. Many questions arise from the difficult topic of euthanasia, and in this book, the medical aspect of this procedure ...
Fixin' to Die: A Compassionate Guide to Committing Suicide or Staying Alive
1st Edition
By David Lester, PhD.
June 15, 2003
This book is a guide to making and carrying out the psychological decision to kill oneself or, if one so decide, to continue living. It focuses on the decision to commit suicide than on the decision to continue living....