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Disenfranchised Grief: New Directions, Challenges, and Strategies for Practice

2 reviews

Research Press (IL), 2002

Review
Satisfied with the book I ordered. In great condition and arrived in a timely manner.

Living with Grief: Children and Adolescents ((Hospice Foundation of America's Living with Grief Series))

1 review

Quality Books Inc., 2008

A complete and comprehensive guide
A child faced with a major loss is a child that is confused and scared. "Living with Grief: Children and Adolescents" is the fifteenth book in the "Living with Grief" series from the Hospice Foundation of America. Speaking on the subject are many experts, each with their own chapter, making this a balanced, scholarly look at grief in children. With countless tips and advice for parents and health ...

Disenfranchised Grief: Recognizing Hidden Sorrow

1 review

Lexington Books, 1989

Invisible Widow
Following the death of my former husband to a fatal heart attack less than two years after our divorce - with the hopes that he would seek therapy, we would reconcile and live happily ever after, I must have read every book out there on grief/bereavement/mourning - searching for someone who knew how I felt. I didn't feel divorced and every fiber of my being felt like I was a widow after 20 ...

Living with Life-Threatening Illness: A Guide for Patients, Their Families, and Caregivers
Kenneth J. Doka

Jossey-Bass, 1998

A hands-on guide for patients, families, and caregivers on how to live an affirming existence while facing the physical and spiritual traumas of life-threatening illness. Every page of this book reveals the author's keen awareness of the challenges faced by patients, families, and caregivers dealing with life threatening illnesses. In page after page readers will discover clear, practical, and wise suggestions that are well grounded in ...

Living With Grief: After Sudden Loss Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, Stroke

1 review
Kenneth Doka

Taylor & Francis, 1996

A critique
Living with Grief after Sudden Loss brings the reader into the world of the survivor. The tragedy has shattered and forever changed the world in which he or she lives. Leading thanatologists, accomplished authors and those working in the field of loss and transition weave their experience in a book that deals with the grief proces and sudden death. The book was written for those attending ...

Living with Grief: Before and After the Death

1 review

Hospice Foundation of America, 2007

A thoughtful, repository of distilled insights from experts in the field.
The Hospice Foundation of America presents Living with Grief: Before and After Death, an anthology of 18 articles, essays and resources by learned authors addressing a broad set of topics pertaining to grief and loss. Penned with an eye toward educating professionals in the latest understanding of how to help people in need, essays range from discussing how to support families during the process ...

Counseling Individuals With Life-Threatening Illness
Kenneth J. Doka

Springer Publishing Company, 2008

Life-threatening illness is not only a medical crisis; it is a psychological, social, and spiritual crisis as well. Also, serious illness affects not only the patient, but the patient's family. Therefore, the two major premises of this book are that care in life-threatening illness must be holistic, and it must be family centered. Doka presents an insightful, comprehensive guide for counselors, social workers, and health care professionals, ...

Living with Grief: Children, Adolescents, and Loss

2 reviews

Hospice Foundation of America, 2000

An outstanding contribution to the field of grief counseling
Living With Grief: Children, Adolescents, And Loss draws upon a wide range of contributors to address the entire spectrum of issues relevant to the grieving process of bereaved children confronted with the loss of a loved one. Produced as a companion publication to the Hospice Foundation of America's seventh annual National Bereavement Teleconference, Living With Grief is a seminal, benchmark, ...

Living With Grief: Loss in Later Life
Kenneth J. Doka

Hospice Foundation of America, 2003

(Hospice Foundation of America) Tool for those facing the most difficult time in their lives. Intended to prompt all Americans to lend a helping hand and a sympathetic ear to an older person who is suffering after a painful loss. Sections include: death as a fact of later life, growing old and dying, and loss and grief in later life. Softcover

Living with Grief: Who We Are, How We Grieve
Kenneth Doka

Routledge, 1998

This book was produced as a companion to the Hospice Foundation of America's fifth annual National Bereavement Teleconference.

Living with Grief

Taylor & Francis, 2007

What causes some events to be perceived as public tragedies? Some tragedies are raised to a level of public attention that necessarily separates them from the multitude of horrific events that transpire all the time. Deaths and disasters touch the lives of people every day. When and why does a tragedy become public? Living with Grief: Coping with Public Tragedy explores the nature of public tragedy, responding to these and other important ...

Death and Spirituality (Death, Value and Meaning)

1 review
Kenneth J. Doka, John D. Morgan

Baywood Pub Co, 1993

Broad base of Spiritual issues that the dying face
Death and Spirituality examines the spiritual traditions of different faith groups. It also recognizes that not all people have the same spiritual needs. For instance, it explores the needs of those with AIDS, the traumatized, the bereaved, or those on hospice. The unique issues of each group are discussed and how to provide spiritual care them. The book addresses a broad base of spiritual ...

AIDS, Fear And Society: Challenging The Dreaded Disease (Series in Death Education, Aging, and Health Care)

1 review
Kenneth J. Doka

Taylor & Francis, 1997

FYI - condoms are not ice skates
If New York City distributes "subway condoms" for free, the give-away will not encourage people to go out and have sex unlike ice skates which if they were given away for free, I would take up ice skating! The Catholic Church should back away from this matter for the sake of the HEALTH of human beings.

Children Mourning, Mourning Children
Kenneth Doka

Taylor & Francis, 1995

Based on the Hospice Foundation of America's second annual teleconference, this book explores three basic themes in children's grief. Firstly, it maintains that children are always developing; therefore their understanding of death and their reactions to illness and loss are also multifaceted and constantly undergoing change. Secondly, children grieve in ways that are both different from and similar to adults. While they may need different ...

Living with Grief: Alzheimer's Disease (Living with Grief)

Hospice Foundation of America, 2004

Discusses what is medically known about Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. The book examines the challenges and opportunities that Alzheimer's presents to clinicians, caregivers, hospice workers, and policy advocates. Dr. Sam Gandy, renowned Alzheimer's researcher, contributes with a chapter describing the medical advances in the quest to cure Alzheimer's. Bruce Jennings, a distinguished ethicist, addresses the issues of quality of life ...

Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities (Society and Aging Series)
Claire Lavin, Kenneth J. Doka

Baywood Publishing Company, 1999

Provides an overview of the elderly population who have developmental disabilities. This book attempts to assess their needs and their lives as they age. In many ways, this is a pioneer population, one of the first generations of persons with developmental disabilities who have survived into later life.

Living With Grief: At Work, At School, At Worship
Kenneth J. Doka

Routledge, 1999

While we often discuss how we grieve, rarely do we consider the places where we grieve. Yet whether at work, at school, at worship or at home, grief not only affects our moods and motivation but our ability to function and our relationships as well. This book considers the ways that grief influences us in varied settings, offering humane and practical suggestions to organizations such as workplaces, schools or places of worship as to how they ...

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