contemporary perspectives, institutions, and practices /
Judith M. Stillion, PhD, CT, and Thomas Attig, PhD, editors
xxvii, 414 pages :
Illustrations ;
26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Seeking wisdom about mortality, dying, and bereavement -- Know thyself: psychology's contributions to thanatology -- Sociological perspectives on death, dying, and bereavement -- Science and practice: contributions of nurses to end-of-life and palliative care -- Legal issues in end-of-life decision making -- Ethics of caring for the dying and bereaved -- Theoretical perspectives on loss and grief -- Psychologization of grief and its depictions within mainstream North American media -- Development perspectives on death and dying, and maturational losses -- Hospice care of the dying -- Hospital-based palliative care -- Palliative care for children -- Global spread of hospice and palliative care -- Death and funeral service -- Death education at the college and university level -- Death education as a public health issue -- Spirituality quo vadis? -- Using the arts and humanities with the dying, bereaved and ourselves -- Family support for the dying and bereaved -- Supporting grieving children -- Helping each other: building community -- Treating complicated bereavement: the development of grief therapy -- When trauma and loss collide: the evolution of intervention for traumatic bereavement -- To be or not to be: suicide then and now -- Grief after suicide: the evolution of suicide postvention -- Responding to grief and trauma in the aftermath of disaster -- Care of the caregiver: professionals and family members