ABSTRACT

Losses may provide a turning point where an individual faces personal and social choices. Still, one may derive significance through the experience of loss, while another may encounter bereavement with less consequence. "Complicated Grieving and Bereavement: Understanding and Treating People Experiencing Loss" examines complicated grief in special populations, including the mentally ill, POW-MIA survivors, the differentially-abled, suicide survivors, bereaved children, those experiencing death at birth, death in schools, and palliative-care death.

section 1|1 pages

Theories of Complicated Grief

chapter 5|14 pages

Children’s Experiences of Death: Three Case Studies

ByKerry Cavanagh

section 3|1 pages

Complicated Grief in Special Populations

chapter 9|15 pages

Minding Mental Illness in the Grief Process

ByLynne Martins

chapter 10|10 pages

Dementia: A Cause of Complicated Grieving

ByCatherine Anne Quinn

chapter 11|15 pages

Grief Complicated by Spiritual Abuse

ByBoyd C. Purcell

chapter 12|13 pages

Spirituality and Religion: Risks for Complicated Mourning

ByRichard B. Gilbert

chapter 14|10 pages

Personality as a Variable in Grief Response

BySusan K. Parker

chapter 15|8 pages

Miscarriage in the Emergency Room: Meeting Parents’ Needs

ByDiane L. Midland

chapter 16|14 pages

Death at Birth: Inner Experiences and Personal Meanings

ByJanis L. Keyser

chapter 19|13 pages

It’s Never Easy! Children, Adolescents and Complicated Grief

ByRobert G. Stevenson

chapter 20|14 pages

Complicated Grief: Family Systems As a Model for Healing

ByStephen J. Hoogerbrugge

chapter 21|14 pages

Dying and Bereaved Children and the Arts, Humor, and Music

ByGerry R. Cox