Death, Value and Meaning Series
Letters from a Friend: A Sibling's Guide to Coping and Grief
1st Edition
By Erika Barber
June 15, 2003
This unique workbook is a comprehensive compilation of therapeutic activities developed to address the needs and issues of children and adolescents following the death of a brother or sister. The workbook is organized into distinct topic-specific sections relating to sibling hospitalisation, ...
Living Victims, Stolen Lives: Parents of Murdered Children Speak to America
1st Edition
By Brad Stetson
June 15, 2002
"Living Victims, Stolen Lives: Parents of Murdered Children Speak to America" is a gripping and instructive sketch of the intense psychic pain, anger, and frustration experienced by parents of murdered children. Drawing on intimate interviews with parents enduring murdered-child grief and the ...
Social Support: A Reflection of Humanity
1st Edition
Edited
By John D. Morgan
February 28, 2002
None of us could survive in the workplace, community, or even in our homes, if we allowed everyone to see how truly vulnerable we are. Yet, social support is a necessity if we are to achieve whatever it is we set out to achieve in this life. "No human being is an island unto himself." "Social ...
What Will We Do?: Preparing a School Community to Cope with Crises
2nd Edition
Edited
By Robert Stevenson, Robert G. Stevenson
June 15, 2001
The second edition of ""What Will We Do? Preparing A School Community to Cope With Crises"" is a guidebook for educators and parents who wish to understand the importance of both pre- and post-intervention programs in our schools to assist all parties in coping with crises that arise. The book ...
Health Care & Spirituality: Listening, Assessing, Caring
1st Edition
By Richard Gilbert
June 15, 2000
Few areas in life have experienced the rapid pace of change that has been the experience of health care. It's an area where nothing feels "safe" and everything is threatened with reexamination and redefinition. Accompanying this situation is a new appreciation for the human spirit and the gift of ...
The Magical Thoughts of Grieving Children: Treating Children with Complicated Mourning and Advice for Parents
1st Edition
By James. A. Fogarty
June 15, 2000
This book is designed for clinicians, educators, clergy, and nurses - anyone who is assisting children who have experienced the death of a loved one. This work offers a unique framework for helping children heal from the wounds created by the life process of death, a framework that has its defining...
When All the Friends Have Gone: A Guide for Aftercare Providers
1st Edition
By Duane Weeks, Catherine Johnson
April 01, 2000
This volume is a collection of writings from pioneers who have created aftercare programs. The perspectives they offer are wide - from the practical how-to's in developing a program to the more personal stories that enlighten the reader on the motivation behind those who founded the programs. The ...
Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity as Therapy
1st Edition
By Sandra Bertman
June 15, 1999
For nearly three decades, Sandra Bertman has been exploring the power of the arts and belief--symbols, metaphors, stories--to alleviate psychological and spiritual pain not only of patients, grieving family members, and affected communities but also of the nurses, clergy and physicians who minister...
When Dreams Don't Work: Professional Caregivers and Burnout
1st Edition
By Ronna Jevne, Donna Reilly Williams
June 15, 1998
When Dreams Don't Work: Professional Caregivers and Burnout presents a fresh perspective on burnout. This book examines the origins and qualities of the dreams (visions) of professional caregivers and the ways those very qualities are risk factors for burnout. ""When Dreams Don't Work: Professional...
Readings in Thanatology
1st Edition
By John D. Morgan
December 31, 1997
A comprehensive book of readings for courses on death and dying at the college or university level. It contains material by such leaders in the field as: Colin Murray Parkes, MD, John Hinton, MD, Kenneth Doka, PhD, Ira R Byock, MD, Ronald K Barrett, PhD, Robert G Stevenson, EdD, Judith M Stillion, ...
All Kinds of Love: Experiencing Hospice
1st Edition
By Carolyn Jaffe, Carol Erhlich
June 15, 1997
Presents a view of hospice care through the eyes of a long-term hospice nurse. This title includes stories which are accompanied by discussion of end-of-life issues that arise among the families hospice nurse has served. It is useful for health care and social worker and layperson alike....
Widower: When Men are Left Alone
1st Edition
By Scott Campbell, Phyllis Silverman
June 15, 1996
In "Widower: When Men are Left Alone", a journalist and a social worker explore the grief process as men experience it. The book contains the oral histories of twenty men, ranging in age from 30 to 94, who have lost their wives to a range of causes including cancer, alcohol, murder, and suicide. ...