Death, dying, and bereavement : contemporary perspectives, institutions, and practices / / Judith M. Stillion and Thomas Attig, editors

• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Springer Publishing Company, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (444 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.9
• Soggetto topico: Death - Psychological aspects; Death - Social aspects; Bereavement - Social aspects
• Persona (resp. second.): StillionJudith M.; AttigThomas
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Psychology The 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 Illnesses Promoting 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; 1970's and 1980's; 1990's; 2000's; 2010-Present; Conclusion; References ; Chapter 6: The Ethics of Caring for the Dying and the Bereaved My 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 Media Grief 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 ; Middle Adulthood
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 development
• Titolo autorizzato: Death, dying, and bereavement
• ISBN: 0-8261-7142-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788071503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II