Counting Our Losses [[electronic resource] ] : Reflecting on Change, Loss, and Transition in Everyday Life

• Autore: Harris Darcy
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.9/3; 616.8914
• Soggetto topico: Adjustment (Psychology); Change (Psychology); Loss (Psychology); Life Style; Emotions; Delivery of Health Care; Attitude; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Psychology, Social; Health Care; Adaptation, Psychological; Attitude to Death; Bereavement; Life Change Events; Social Sciences; Psychology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): HarrisDarcy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; About the Editor; About the Contributors; 1 Grief From a Broader Perspective: Nonfinite Loss, Ambiguous Loss, and Chronic Sorrow; 2 The Social Context of Loss and Grief; Section I: Loss of the View of the World or Others; Section IA: Loss of Safety and Security; 3 Are You Safe? Understanding the Loss of Safety for Women and Children Who Experience Abuse; 4 Traumatic Events and Mass Disasters in the Public Sphere ; 5 Vicarious Trauma and Professional Caregiver Stress: Occupational Hazards or Powerful Teachers?Section IB: Relational Losses; 6 Navigating Intimate Relationship Loss: When the Relationship Dies but the Person Is Still Living; 7 Adoption: A Life Begun With Loss; 8 Loss Related to Developmental Milestones: An Analysis of the Postparental Transition; 9 Grief and Caregiver Turnover in Nonfamilial Communities: Left Behind but Not Bereft; Section II: Loss of Meaning or a Sense of Justice in the World; 10 Existential Suffering: Anguish Over Our Human Condition ; 11 Relinquishment of Certainty: A Step Beyond Terror Management12 Wrestling With the Loss of One's Faith Community; Section III: Loss of the View of Self as Worthy or Valuable; Section IIIA: Loss of Identity; 13 The Trauma of Neglect: Loss of Self; 14 We Are Not Like Other People: Identity Loss and Reconstruction Following Migration; 15 Loss of Employment; 16 Infertility and Reproductive Loss; 17 Coming Out: Intrapersonal Loss in the Acquisition of a Stigmatized Identity; Section IIIB: Loss of Functionality; 18 Chronic Degenerative Conditions, Disability, and Loss ; 19 Loss of Functionality: Traumatic Brain Injury20 "Who Did You Used To Be?" Loss for Older Adults; Section IV: Coping With Losses in Life; 21 Adaptation, Resilience, and Growth After Loss; 22 Meaning Making and the Assumptive World in Nondeath Loss; 23 Concluding Thoughts; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This text is a valuable resource for clinicians who work with clients dealing with non-death, nonfinite, and ambiguous losses in their lives. It explores adjustment to change, transition, and loss from the perspective of the latest thinking in bereavement theory and research. The specific and unique aspects of different types of loss are discussed, such as infertility, aging, chronic illnesses and degenerative conditions, divorce and separation, immigration, adoption, loss of beliefs, and loss of employment. Harris and the contributing authors consider these from an experiential perspective
• Titolo autorizzato: Counting Our Losses
• ISBN: 1-135-28071-1; 1-135-28072-X; 1-283-04516-8; 9786613045164; 0-203-86073-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459013803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement