Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement
About the Book Series
Volumes published in The Series in Death, Dying and Bereavement are representative of the multidisciplinary nature of the intersecting fields of death studies, suicidology, end-of-life care, and grief counseling.
The series meets the needs of clinicians, researchers, paraprofessionals, pastoral counselors, and educators by providing cutting edge research, theory, and best practices on the most important topics in these fields—for today and for tomorrow.
Parenting After the Death of a Child: A Practitioner's Guide
1st Edition
By Jennifer L. Buckle, Stephen J. Fleming
April 23, 2015
The death of a child has a tremendous and overwhelming impact on parents and siblings, completely altering the psychological landscape of the family. In the aftermath of such a tragedy, parents face the challenge of not only dealing with their own grief, but also that of their surviving children. ...
Suicide Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups: Theory, Research, and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Frederick T.L. Leong, Mark M. Leach
April 23, 2015
Suicide is increasingly understood and predicted as an intersection of biological, psychological, cognitive, and sociocultural factors. We have some basic knowledge of these factors and how they interact, but presently we know very little about how culture can play a role as a variable that ...
Dealing with Dying, Death, and Grief during Adolescence
1st Edition
By David E. Balk
February 25, 2014
For some, life’s introduction to death and grief comes early, and when it does it can take many forms. Not only does Dealing with Dying, Death, and Grief during Adolescence tackle them all, it does so with David Balk’s remarkable sensitivity to and deep knowledge of the pressures and opportunities ...
Bereavement Care for Families
1st Edition
Edited
By David W. Kissane, Francine Parnes
January 16, 2014
Grief is a family affair. When a loved one dies, the distress reverberates throughout the immediate and extended family. Family therapy has long attended to issues of loss and grief, yet not as the dominant therapeutic paradigm. Bereavement Care for Families changes that: it is a practical resource...
Grief and the Expressive Arts: Practices for Creating Meaning
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara E. Thompson, Robert A. Neimeyer
January 16, 2014
The use of the arts in psychotherapy is a burgeoning area of interest, particularly in the field of bereavement, where it is a staple intervention in hospice programs, children’s grief camps, specialized programs for trauma or combat exposure, work with bereaved parents, widowed elders or suicide ...
Techniques of Grief Therapy: Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert A. Neimeyer
April 12, 2012
Techniques of Grief Therapy is an indispensable guidebook to the most inventive and inspirational interventions in grief and bereavement counseling and therapy. Individually, each technique emphasizes creativity and practicality. As a whole, they capture the richness of practices in the field and ...
Working With the Bereaved: Multiple Lenses on Loss and Mourning
1st Edition
By Simon Shimshon Rubin, Ruth Malkinson, Eliezer Witztum
October 27, 2011
Working With the Bereaved summarizes the major themes in bereavement research and clinical work and uses the authors’ own cutting-edge research to show mental-health practitioners how to integrate these themes into their practice. It provides clinicians with a framework for exploring their own ...
Helping Grieving People - When Tears Are Not Enough: A Handbook for Care Providers
2nd Edition
By J. Shep Jeffreys
April 26, 2011
Helping Grieving People – When Tears Are Not Enough is a handbook for care providers who provide service, support and counseling to those grieving death, illness, and other losses. This book is also an excellent text for academic courses as well as for staff development training. The author ...
Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society: Bridging Research and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert A. Neimeyer, Darcy L. Harris, Howard R. Winokuer, Gordon Thornton
April 22, 2011
Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is an authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement. Its chapters synthesize the best of research-based conceptualization and clinical wisdom across 30 of the most important topics in the field. The volume’s contributors ...
Counting Our Losses: Reflecting on Change, Loss, and Transition in Everyday Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Darcy L. Harris
December 22, 2010
This text is a valuable resource for clinicians who work with clients dealing with non-death, nonfinite, and ambiguous losses in their lives. It explores adjustment to change, transition, and loss from the perspective of the latest thinking in bereavement theory and research. The specific and ...
The Art of Grief: The Use of Expressive Arts in a Grief Support Group
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Earl Rogers
June 08, 2007
Art and other expressive therapies are increasingly used in grief counseling, not only among children and adolescents, but throughout the developmental spectrum. Creative activities are commonly used in group and individual psychotherapy programs, but it is only relatively recently that these ...
Music of the Soul: Composing Life Out of Loss
1st Edition
By Joy S. Berger
September 08, 2006
Music of the Soul guides the reader through principles, techniques, and exercises for incorporating music into grief counseling, with the end goal of further empowering the grieving person. Music has a unique ability to elicit a whole range of powerful emotional responses in people - even so far ...