reflecting on change, loss, and transition in everyday life /
edited by Darcy Harris.
New York :
Routledge,
c2011.
xxix, 261 p. ;
23 cm.
The series in death, dying, and bereavement
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section I: Introduction -- -- Grief from a Broader Perspective : Nonfinite Loss, Ambiguous Loss, and Chronic Sorrow / Harris, Gorman -- The Social Context of Loss and Grief / Harris -- -- Section II: Loss of View of the World and/or Others -- -- Part A: Loss of Safety and Security -- -- Are You Safe? Loss Related to Personal Violation / Abercromby -- Traumatic Events and Mass Disasters in the Public Sphere / Modesto -- Vicarious Trauma and Professional Caregiver Stress : Occupational Hazards or Powerful Teachers? / Gorman -- -- Part B: Relational Losses -- -- Navigating Intimate Relationship Loss : When the Relationship Dies, but the Person is Still Living / Harris -- Adoption : A Life Begun with Loss / Schacter, Schacter -- Losses for Birthmothers Who Place Children for Adoption / Silverman -- Loss Related to Developmental Milestones : An Analysis of the Post Parental Transition / Lewis, Gorman -- Change and Transition in Non-Kinship Groups / Cushing -- -- Section III: Loss of Meaning or of a Sense of Justice in the World -- -- Existential Suffering : Anguish over the Human Condition / Attig -- Relinquishment of Certainty / Hunter -- Loss of Religious Community / Harvey -- -- Section IV: Loss of the View of Self as Worthy or Valuable -- -- Part A: Loss of Identity -- -- The Trauma of Neglect / Kauffman -- We are not like Other People : Identity Loss and Reconstruction Following Migration / Sawicki -- Loss of Employment / Harris, Isenor -- Infertility and Reproductive Loss / Harris -- Coming Out : Intrapersonal Loss in the Acquisition of a Stigmatized Identity / Scott -- -- Part B: Loss of Functionality -- -- Chronic, Degenerative Conditions and Loss / Gorman -- Traumatic Brain Injury / Kosminsky -- Who did You Used to Be? Loss for Older Adults / Langer -- -- Section V: Coping with Losses in Life -- -- Adaptation, Resilience, and Growth after Loss / Gorman -- Meaning-Making and the Assumptive World in Non-Death Loss / Harris -- Integrating Loss in Everyday Life / Harris.