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Coping With Loss (Hardcover)
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Coping With Loss (Hardcover)
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"Coping With Loss" describes the many ways in which people cope
with the death of someone they love.
Most earlier books on bereavement have fallen into two categories:
distillations of the clinical experience of individual therapists
or collections of chapters reporting the results of empirical
studies. Each category is valuable but has tended to serve a narrow
group of readers--practitioners with particular theoretical
orientations or researchers in quest of the latest findings.
Coauthored by a leading research psychologist and an experienced
therapist who specializes in bereavement education and
intervention, this book is different. The authors weave together
the strands of theory, research, and clinical wisdom into a
seamless and readable narrative.
While they discuss previous work, they also present new data,
never before published, from one of the largest studies of bereaved
people ever conducted, the Bereavement Coping Project. Unlike most
studies to date, which focused on only one type of bereaved group
(usually widows or widowers), the Bereavement Coping Project
examined the experiences of several different groups during the
first l8 months after the death. The groups included those who had
lost a spouse, a parent, an adult sibling, or a child; and those
who had lost their significant other to cancer or cardiovascular
disease on one hand as opposed to the stigmatized disease of AIDS
on the other.
The book begins with a critical overview of theories of
bereavement; succeeding chapters explore in depth the impact of
specific types of loss, the impact of particular coping strategies
on recovery; the impact of social supports and religion, and the
special cases of children and of people who seem to grow and change
for the better after a loss. A final chapter considers implications
for intervention with bereaved people.
Each chapter is richly illuminated with real-life examples
throughout and ends with a section called "Voices" in which
bereaved people describe their various attempts to cope in their
own words. Insightful and informative.
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