Presents 21 chapters written by mental health professionals, social scientists, spiritual practitioners, and others specializing in issues of death, grief, and bereavement. The first section the many factors that can turn grief from a functional and adaptive function into a more complicated, dysfunctional one. Chapters in the next section address children and complicated grief, while the last part focuses on complicated grief in special populations including families of soldiers listed as MIA; suicide among the Canadian Inuit; and personality as a variable in grief response. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface 1(6) Gerry R. Cox Robert A. Bendiksen Robert G. Stevenson SECTION 1: Theories of Complicated Grief Relearning the World: Always Complicated, Sometimes More Than Others 7(16) Thomas Attig SECTION 2: Children and Complicated Grief The Consequences of Sudden Traumatic Death: The Vulnerability of Bereaved Children and Adolescents and Ways Professionals Can Help 23(18) David W. Adams Homicide Bereavement: Scary-Tales for Children 41(12) Paul T. Clements, Jr. The 3 Rs ... Rage, Regrets, and Revenge---Uncovering and Assisting with the ``Dark Side Feelings of Childrens Grief 53(16) Toni Griffith Childrens Experiences of Death: Three Case Studies 69(16) Kerry Cavanagh SECTION 3: Complicated Grief in Special Populations Camouflaged Grief: Survivor Grief in Families of Soldiers Still Listed as MIA 85(14) Larry R. Darrah Complicated Grief: Suicide Among the Canadian Inuit 99(20) Antoon A. Leenaars Grieving in the Context of a Community of Differently-Abled People: The Experience of LArche Daybreak 119(18) Jane Powell Minding Mental Illness in the Grief Process 137(16) Lynne Martins Dementia: A Cause of Complicated Grieving 153(10) Catherine Anne Quinn Grief Complicated by Spiritual Abuse 163(16) Boyd C. Purcell Spirituality and Religion: Risks for Complicated Mourning 179(14) Richard B. Gilbert Can We Predict Complicated Grief Before the Bereavement? A Report on Bereavement Risk Assessment in a Palliative Care Setting 193(16) Christine Hodgson Lynda Weaver Pippa Hall Personality as a Variable in Grief Response 209(10) Susan K. Parker Miscarriage in the Emergency Room: Meeting Parents Needs 219(8) Diane L. Midland Death at Birth: Inner Experiences and Personal Meanings 227(14) Janis L. Keyser Partners in Complicated Grief: National Grief Reactions to Disasters and Grassroots Memorialization 241(14) Hannah Sherebrin Viewing the Body and Grief Complications: The Role of Visual Confirmation in Grief Reconciliation 255(20) Richard J. Paul Its Never Easy! Children, Adolescents and Complicated Grief 275(14) Robert G. Stevenson Complicated Grief: Family Systems As a Model for Healing 289(14) Stephen J. Hoogerbrugge Dying and Bereaved Children and the Arts, Humor, and Music 303(14) Gerry R. Cox Contributors 317(6) Index 323
Gerry Cox, Robert Bendiksen, Robert Stevenson