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Men Coping with Grief
Edited by Dale A. Lund
This book brings together, in a single publication, a very diverse group of authors who share their expertise in history, philosophy, journalism, poetry, behavioral and social sciences, education, nursing, gerontology, religious studies and business as it relates to better understanding and helping men in a variety of grief situations. Conceptual issues about death, bereavement, grief, gender and masculinity are explored along with a presentation of original research findings about men coping with grief. Interventions, therapies and other helping strategies are discussed with a recognition that there is considerable variation among the ways men manage their grief.
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Beyond Gender Differences: Adaptation to Aging in Life Course Perspective
Laurie Russell Hatch
A central thrust of this book is to show the need to move beyond a focus on gender differences, toward a life course perspective on adaptation to aging. The life course approach advanced in this book provides an effective framework to investigate sources of similarity as well as difference between—and among—women and men, encompassing their personal biographies as well as the larger socio-historical context for aging. In addition to examining adaptation to aging as a broad and cumulative process, the book examines the two life events that have been thought to pose the greatest challenges to adaptation in older age: the death of a spouse and retirement.
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The Magical Thoughts of Grieving Children: Treating Children with Complicated Mourning and Advice for Parents
Dr. James A Fogarty
An enlightening study on children's magical thought offering many interactive healing techniques, including the development of safe spots, the design of a children's therapy office, the use of psychodrama and sculpting, prescribed therapy, correcting distorted death stories, recognizing the special reaction cues of childhood, and reducing the development of personality disorders by eliminating distorted magical thought. The Magical Thoughts of Grieving Children is especially helpful in uniting parents and therapists to assist children experiencing complicated mourning.
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We Love You Matty: Meeting Death With Faith
Tad Dunne
Disturbing, enlightening, and challenging. Readers of any religious belief will find the spiritual reflections here will profoundly affect the faith with which they meet death. This work is a theological reflection about death. It incorporates the major religious traditions in their understandings of death and offers help to the dying and bereaved in light of these traditions. It is most readable and would be useful to a general audience as well as professionals. It contains a series of essays on the mysterious character of death and the kind of faith needed to live in death's shadow.
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Death Without Notice
Sandra Helene Straub, Ed.D.
When someone you love dies, you wonder if you will survive. The death of a loved family member or friend brings a flood of feelings--sorrow, loneliness, abandonment, anger, and guilt. These feelings make the task of mourning one of our most painful human experiences. Death Without Notice was written to help the bereaved gain the necessary knowledge and skills to move effectively through their grief. You can get through this sadness. This book can help. You will be provided with practical advice that can be quickly put to work: specific solutions to the difficulties confronting survivors and personal stories from others who not only endured, but became stronger individuals. Make the journey, then, with courage and with faith.
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When All The Friends Are Gone: A Guide for Aftercare Providers
Edited by O. Duane Weeks and Catherine Johnson
This volume is a collection of writings from pioneers who have created aftercare programs. The perspectives 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.
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Grandparents Cry Twice: Help for Bereaved Grandparents
Mary Lou Reed
Grandparents Cry Twice 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 her beloved grandson, Alex, died. Through her personal story she touches the universal in all grandparents' grief.
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Lives in Time and Place: The Problems and Promises of Developmental Science
Richard A. Settersten, Jr.
As we seek to understand the life course in modern societies, its effective analysis and explanation simultaneously becomes more pressing and more complicated. However, as our scientific treatments of the life course have become more elaborate, they have also become more fragmented within and between academic disciplines, across the study of specific life periods, and by method. Our challenge now lies in building a more integrative "developmental science." Its many promises hinge upon whether we can bridge disparate disciplinary orientations, further several critical debates, and overcome many theoretical and analytic barriers, most of which involve time or place in some form. This book is about those challenges.
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Values in the Key of Life: Making Harmony in the Human Community
Dr. Kent L. Koppelman
Based upon his premise that as the musical scale gives us seven notes with which to create harmony in the keys of A through G, Kent Koppelman, has ingeniously brought us seven values from which harmony is created—in the Key of Life. Altruism, Benevolence, Collaboration, Diversity, Empathy, Forgiveness and Grace.
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Right To Die Versus Sacredness of Life
Edited by Kalman J. Kaplan
This volume, published as a special issue from OMEGA—Journal of Death and Dying presents a number of theoretical and empirical articles on the topic of euthanasia, doctor-assisted suicide and suicide. We have examined the first extended data available in America with regard to the 93 physician-assisted deaths of Drs. Kevorkian and Reding. We examine the roles of biological verses psychological factors in the patient's decision to actively hasten their death. The role of gender, age, social economic status, ethnic-national-religious ancestry and marital-status have been examined in depth through quasi-psychological autopsies when available, often with very troubling implications. In addition, we present some preliminary work on seven cases of physician-assisted suicides in Australia.
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