Dying, Death and Bereavement

A Challenge for Living

Inge B. Corless, Barbara B. Germino (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2003 | 2nd Revised edition
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-2655-9 (ISBN)

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Examining the issues of death and dying as a continuum, this book ranges from death education and care of the dying to grief and bereavement. It is useful for nurses, social workers, physicians, mental health workers, allied health professionals, and those working with dying individuals and their families.

In this updated edition, the authors examine the issues of death and dying as a continuum, from death education and care of the dying to grief and bereavement. It is a multidisciplinary guide to the important issues surrounding dying and bereavement in today's health care and social environment. Nurses, social workers, physicians, mental health workers, and allied health professionals will find this a valuable resource for working with dying individuals and their families. New features to this edition are the personal stories introducing each section, and a chapter on physical therapy with the dying. The contributors include Hannelore Wass, Charles Corr, Phyllis Silverman, and Derek Doyle.

Part 1 The challenge of understanding death: artists; communicating about death and dying; death education for children; death education for adults; respecting the spirituality of the dying and bereaved. Part 2 The challenge of dying: the struggle to end my father's life; dying in the hospital; dying at home; listening to the stories of those near death - the Hermes listener; symptom management of the terminally ill; hospice and palliative care - a legacy in the making; regulatory issues in the care of the dying. Part 3 The challenges of grief and bereavement: I don't know how to grieve; the bereavement process - loss, grief and recovery; social support and mutual help for the bereaved; helping children during bereavement; sibling bereavement research; loss of a pet. Part 4 Related issues: take me home; the role of the social worker; the role of the physical therapist; thanatology - its end and future (with special reference to euthanasia); the future of palliative care. Part 5 In conclusion: reprise.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.8.2003
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-8261-2655-3 / 0826126553
ISBN-13	978-0-8261-2655-9 / 9780826126559
Zustand	Neuware