Complicated Grieving and Bereavement

SECTION 1: Theories of Complicated Grief

CHAPTER 1 Relearning the World: Always Complicated, Sometimes More Than Others Thomas Attig

SECTION 2: Children and Complicated Grief

CHAPTER 2 The Consequences of Sudden Traumatic Death: The Vulnerability of Bereaved Children and Adolescents and Ways Professionals Can Help David W. Adams

CHAPTER 3 Homicide Bereavement: Scary-Tales for Children Paul T. Clements, Jr.

CHAPTER 4 The 3 R’s . . . Rage, Regrets, and Revengeâ€"Uncovering and Assisting with the “Dark Side†Feelings of Children’s Grief Toni Griffith

CHAPTER 5 Children’s Experiences of Death: Three Case Studies Kerry Cavanagh

SECTION 3: Complicated Grief in Special Populations

CHAPTER 6 Camouflaged Grief: Survivor Grief in Families of Soldiers Still Listed as MIA Larry R. Darrah

CHAPTER 7 Complicated Grief: Suicide Among the Canadian Inuit Antoon A. Leenaars

CHAPTER 8 Grieving in the Context of a Community of Differently-Abled People: The Experience of L’Arche Daybreak Jane Powell

CHAPTER 9 Minding Mental Illness in the Grief Process Lynne Martins

CHAPTER 10 Dementia: A Cause of Complicated Grieving Catherine Anne Quinn

CHAPTER 11 Grief Complicated by Spiritual Abuse Boyd C. Purcell

CHAPTER 12 Spirituality and Religion: Risks for Complicated Mourning Richard B. Gilbert

CHAPTER 13 Can We Predict Complicated Grief Before the Bereavement? A Report on Bereavement Risk Assessment in a Palliative Care Setting Christine Hodgson, Lynda Weaver, and Pippa Hall

CHAPTER 14 Personality as a Variable in Grief Response Susan K. Parker

CHAPTER 15 Miscarriage in the Emergency Room: Meeting Parents’Needs Diane L. Midland

CHAPTER 16 Death at Birth: Inner Experiences and Personal Meanings Janis L. Keyser

CHAPTER 17 Partners in Complicated Grief: National Grief Reactions to Disasters and Grassroots Memorialization Hannah Sherebrin

CHAPTER 18 Viewing the Body and Grief Complications: The Role of Visual Confirmation in Grief Reconciliation Richard J. Paul

CHAPTER 19 It’s Never Easy! Children, Adolescents and Complicated Grief Robert G. Stevenson

CHAPTER 20 Complicated Grief: Family Systems As a Model for Healing Stephen J. Hoogerbrugge

CHAPTER 21 Dying and Bereaved Children and the Arts, Humor, and Music Gerry R. Cox

Contributors

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