This book can enhance everyone's understanding of how women
experience loss and grief, and how they transition to resolution.
It is an invaluable resource to women and everyone who supports
them-spouses, partners, and family members as well as community and
government. Women's grief is often a complex phenomenon-a natural,
normal experience, but one that can seriously impact
everyone-female or male-at every stage of life. Understanding Loss
and Grief for Women: A New Perspective on Their Pain and Healing
provides a way to look at how women experience loss through the
lens of their socially constructed roles, and in light of the
theories and practice of grief therapy and support. The book begins
by explaining the social construction of women's traditional,
transitional, and modern/postmodern roles, and then addresses the
social construction of grief theory and practice in past eras and
modern society. Several case studies enable readers to see how
social constructs shape women's responses to various causes of
grief, such as the death of a spouse or partner, child, marriage
(divorce), and career (retirement). The final section of the book
examines the health impacts of grief, offers suggestions to
ameliorate negative health impacts, and emphasizes how loss and
grief for women can be used as opportunities for self-growth. This
book serves all members of the general population as well as
educators, academics, scientists, and students of disciplines such
as psychology, psychotherapy, medicine, sociology, and women's
studies. It will enable all women to better understand, deal with,
and heal from their loss and grief experience. Male readers will
empathize with what their spouses/partners, mothers, grandmothers,
siblings, and friends are experiencing in loss and grief and
understand how to support healthy transition through grief to
resolution. The community at large and care providers will learn
how to create a more nurturing and supportive environment for
women's grief response. Explicates the socially constructed roles
of women, in the past and in modern society, to illustrate what has
been considered "appropriate" expression and response to loss and
grief for women, and to enable a unique understanding the
phenomenal loss experience for women Presents an invaluable
framework, as a scaffolding, that allows readers to interrogate
their own and others' experiences of loss in a novel, more in-depth
way-one that supports improved practice in the helping professions
Includes women's real-life stories that tell their truths of the
loss experience and how grief worked through them in transitioning
to resolution Provides seminal information to professional grief
counselors, physicians, nurses, clinical psychologists, and
psychiatric social workers, as well as students of psychology,
sociology, medicine, public health, and women's studies Allows
family members, friends, or partners to better understand what a
woman who is experiencing loss and grief is feeling, and instructs
how to support healthy transition through grief to resolution
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