The Routledge International Handbook of Drug-Related Death Bereavement

Margaret Stroebe, PhD, is Professor Emerita and continuing visiting professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, and the Department of Clinical Psychology & Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Kari Dyregrov, PhD, is Professor Emerita and continuing at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. Kristine Berg Titlestad, PhD, is an associate professor at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway.

PART I. SETTING THE STAGE

1. Introduction to the Handbook

Margaret Stroebe, Kari Dyregrov and Kristine B. Titlestad

2. Researching drug-related death bereavement: Methodological suggestions for the study of key conceptual issues

Eleftheria Tseliou and Georgios Abakoumkin

3. Drug-related death bereavement: Commentary by a bereaved parent on a research study

Kelly Thomas, Kristine B. Titlestad, Margaret Stroebe, and Kari Dyregrov

PART II. CONTEXT: THE SOCIETAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF BEREAVEMENT FOLLOWING A DRUG-RELATED DEATH

4. The importance of cultural context: A cross-cultural perspective on drug-death bereavement

Paul C. Rosenblatt

5. Drug policy and welfare systems as context for drug-related death bereavement

Svanaug Fjær and Kari Dyregrov

6. Disenfranchisement following a drug-related death

Kenneth J. Doka and Kari Dyregrov

7. The impact of stigmatization before and after drug-related deaths

Beatrice M. Wendeln, Madeline Oppenheim, Georg Schomerus, Patrick W. Corrigan

PART III. CONSEQUENCES AND COPING (1): THE BEREAVEMENT EXPERIENCE FOLLOWING A DRUG-RELATED DEATH

8. Bereaved parents’ relationship following drug-related death loss: (What) can we learn from relationship research?

Asuman Buyukcan-Tetik, Catrin Finkenauer, and Sara Albuquerque

9. Understanding parental grief on the death of a child who used narcotics

William T. Feigelman and Kristine B. Titlestad

10. Risk factors for prolonged grief disorder in people bereaved by drug-related deaths

Øyvind R. Kalsås and Maja O’Connor

11. Adjusting to loss after death from drug-related versus other traumatic deaths: Unique challenges?

Jamison S. Bottomley, William T. Feigelman, and Alyssa A. Rheingold

12. Coping with bereavement due to drug-related death in the context of one’s own drug challenges

Richard Velleman and Lillian Bruland Selseng

13. Patterns of coping following a drug-related death: An overview of the END project findings

Kristine B. Titlestad, Lillian B. Selseng and Kari Dyregrov

PART IV. CONSEQUENCES AND COPING (2): BEYOND THE WESTERN WORLD

14. Dealing with bereavement following a drug-related death in China

Xinxian Liu and Suqin Tang

15. "Sℇ Asa”: Bereavement following bad deaths in Ghana

Johnny Andoh-Arthur

16. Bereavement following a drug-related death in Mexico and India

Richard Velleman, Marcela Tiburcio and Abhijit Nadkarni

PART V. CARE (1): SUPPORTING BEREAVED PERSONS FOLLOWING A DRUG-RELATED DEATH

17. Guidance for supporting/counselling people bereaved through a drug-related death: Unique circumstances, special needs

Peter Cartwright

18. Working with families following drug-death related loss

Sari Lindeman and Lillian B. Selseng

19. On the provision of informal and formal support: From personal networks and colleagues, to schools, front line and health care providers

Kari Dyregrov, Monika Reime and Sonja Mellingen

20. Stigma, kindness and professionalism: On fostering compassion and countering stigmatization

Richard Velleman and Lorna Templeton

21. Belonging and empowerment: Experiences of community support following a drug-related death

Joshua Stout and Benjamin Fleury-Steiner

22. Wall of Silence: Supporting providers after a drug-related death

Adelya A. Urmanche and Kate Szymanski

PART VI. CARE (2): TREATMENTS FOR DRUG-RELATED DEATH BEREAVED PERSONS IN NEED

23. Models of adaptation to bereavement: Application to grief therapy after a drug-related death

Jamison S. Bottomley and Robert A. Neimeyer

24. Prolonged Grief Disorder therapy for drug-related death bereaved, with insights from the Dual Process Model

Henry Willis, Natalia Skritskaya, and M. Katherine Shear

25. Psychotherapeutic treatment for bereaved persons encountering grief difficulties following a drug-related death

Jens C. Thimm and Pål Kristensen

26. Brief Eclectic Psychotherapy for prolonged and traumatic grief following drug-related death

Geert Smid, Sophie M.C. Hengst, Joanna Wojtkowiak, Rebecca Gasser, and Paul A. Boelen

27. Structured support for adults bereaved by a drug-related death: The potential of the 5-Step Method

Lorna Templeton

28. Rebuilding relationships: The benefits of increasing self-awareness through writing following a drug-related death

Christina Thatcher

PART VII. REFLECTIONS

29. Implications of the END project: Beyond the Norwegian context?

Monika Reime, Lillian B. Selseng, Kristine B. Titlestad and Kari Dyregrov

30. The handbook under the magnifying glass: Lessons (still) to be learnt from the study of drug-

related death bereavement

Margaret Stroebe, Kari Dyregrov, and Kristine B. Titlestad