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Title Death, Dying, and Bereavement : Contemporary Perspectives, Institutions, and Practices / Judith M. Stillion, PhD and Thomas Attig, PhD, editors.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Chronology of Developments in the Movement; Share Death, Dying, and Bereavement: Contemporary Perspectives, Institutions, and Practices; Part I: Intellectual Developments; Chapter 1: Seeking Wisdom About Mortality, Dying, and Bereavement; Personal History; Philosophy as Love of Wisdom; Existential Phenomenology; Facing Personal Mortality; Living While Dying; Bereavement and Grieving; Looking to the Future; References; Chapter 2: Know Thyself: Psychology's Contributions to Thanatology; My Entry Into the Field.
Early PsychologyThe Psychoanalytic Movement; Humanistic/Existential Psychology; Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Behaviorism; Positive Psychology; Eclectic Thinkers; Facing the Future; References; Chapter 3: Sociological Perspectives on Death, Dying, and Bereavement; What Draws a Sociologist to Study Death?; Foundations; Current Themes; Contemporary Challenges; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Science and Practice: Contributions of Nurses to End-of-Life and Palliative Care; Palliative and End-of-Life Care Journeys; Uncovering and Combating the Conspiracy of Silence About Death and Dying.
Making Meaning: Living With the Chronicity of Life-Threatening IllnessesPromoting Team-Based Collaborative Approaches to Care; Managing Pain and Symptoms of Children and Adults; Integrating Bereavement Within Patient-Centered and Family-Focused Dying Care; Conducting Research With People at the End of Life; Educating Nurses to Improve Care of People at the End of Life; Summary: Impact of Nurses on Palliative and End-of-Life Care; References; Chapter 5: Legal Issues in End-of-Life Decision Making; Background; 1970s and 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010-Present; Conclusion; References.
Chapter 6: The Ethics of Caring for the Dying and the BereavedMy Involvement in End-of-Life Ethics; The History of Medical/Health Care Ethics; Respect for Persons; The Turn to Narrative Ethics; Looking to the Future; References; Chapter 7: Theoretical Perspectives on Loss and Grief; Sigmund Freud; Erich Lindemann; John Bowlby; Colin Parkes; Elisabeth Kübler-Ross; William Worden; Therese Rando; Simon Rubin; Thomas Attig; Stroebe and Colleagues; Continuing Bonds; Robert Neimeyer and Janice Nadeau; The Elephant Needs a Pedicure: Similarities, Differences, Directions for the Future; References.
Chapter 8: The Psychologization of Grief and Its Depictions Within Mainstream North American MediaGrief as a Psychological Object of Study in a Modernist Context; The Pathologization/Psychologization of Grief; Depictions of Pathological/Psychological Grief in Mainstream Media; Discussion; Looking Ahead; References; Chapter 9: Developmental Perspectives on Death and Dying, and Maturational Losses; Our Stories; Our Developmental Perspective; Perinatal Period and Infancy; Toddlerhood Through Preschool-Aged Children; Elementary School-Aged Children; Tweens and Teens; Young Adults.
Summary Delivers the collective wisdom of foremost scholars and practitioners in the death and dying movement from its inception to the present. Written by luminaries who have shaped the field, this capstone book distills the collective wisdom of foremost scholars and practitioners who together have nearly a millennium of experience in the death and dying movement. The book bears witness to the evolution of the movement and presents the insights of its pioneers, eyewitnesses, and major contributors past and present. Its chapters address contemporary intellectual, institutional, and practice developmen.
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Language Text in English.
Subject Death -- Psychological aspects.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Death -- Social aspects.
Death -- Social aspects.
Bereavement -- Social aspects.
Bereavement -- Social aspects.
Bereavement.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Stillion, Judith M., 1937- editor.
Attig, Thomas, 1945- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Stillion, Judith M., 1937- Death, dying, and bereavement 9780826171412 (DLC) 2014020866 (OCoLC)889666398
ISBN 9780826171429 electronic book
0826171427 electronic book
9780826171412
0826171419