Does the concept of a broken heart have some grounding in reality? Can grief affect the body in ways that necessitate medical care and may even be life-threatening? Scholars from diverse disciplines report on research and explore key issues in this comprehensive review of scientific knowledge on the consequences of losing a loved person through death. Detailed coverage is given to the phenomenology of grief, distinctions between normal and pathological grief, and measurement and assessment techniques. Current theories are reviewed and underlying physiological mechanisms are surveyed, which help explain why the bereaved are highly vulnerable to ill health. Analyses also go beyond the consideration of marital bereavement to consider many different types of loss, including the special cases of bereavement among AIDS survivors and Holocaust survivors. Evaluations are provided of the availability and efficacy of many different types of support for bereaved people, ranging from informal help to self-help groups to various counseling and therapy intervention programs.
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"The reader of this book may be tempted--and rightly so--to call it the most comprehensive, thorough, and authoritative volume written on the subject in many years....Research design is particularly crucial, with sample selection, measures, instruments, biases, the main effects-interactions dilemma, and the heterogeneity of the concommitant psychopathology being outstanding issues." Renato D. Alarcon, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
"...an important resource in finding that understanding balance between objectivity and experience." Ann Weber, Contemporary Psychology
"...a scholarly and comprehensive work which accomplishes the editors' stated objective...a worthwhile resource for bereavement issues and concerns." Cathy Coyle, Social Work in Health Care
"...a unique, research-based volume which provides readers with an up-to-date account of knowledge about bereavement's impact, and its emotional, physical, and social effects....Drawing on the work of leading researchers from around the world, the Handbook of Bereavement is a scholarly volume which presents cutting edge information about the nature and consequences of this deeply personal experience." Noetic Sciences Review
"The editors are to be commended for the quality of the contributions they solicited and assembled....The book is mandatory reading for individuals desiring a thorough coverage of the current knowledge in the field of bereavement. Although advanced in its treatment of topics, I would recommend this handbook as a starting point for anyone interested in the field of thanatology. The critical analyses offered by the various contributors move the reader beyond a superficial understanding of the material. In a field in which the literature often appears to be part of a maze with few connecting points, Stroebe and her colleagues provide a valuable template for conceptualizing and interpreting additional material that the reader may encounter." Alicia Skinner Cook, source????
"...an important resource in finding that understanding balance between objectivity and experience." Ann Weber, Contemporary Psychology
"...a scholarly and comprehensive work which accomplishes the editors' stated objective...a worthwhile resource for bereavement issues and concerns." Cathy Coyle, Social Work in Health Care
"...a unique, research-based volume which provides readers with an up-to-date account of knowledge about bereavement's impact, and its emotional, physical, and social effects....Drawing on the work of leading researchers from around the world, the Handbook of Bereavement is a scholarly volume which presents cutting edge information about the nature and consequences of this deeply personal experience." Noetic Sciences Review
"The editors are to be commended for the quality of the contributions they solicited and assembled....The book is mandatory reading for individuals desiring a thorough coverage of the current knowledge in the field of bereavement. Although advanced in its treatment of topics, I would recommend this handbook as a starting point for anyone interested in the field of thanatology. The critical analyses offered by the various contributors move the reader beyond a superficial understanding of the material. In a field in which the literature often appears to be part of a maze with few connecting points, Stroebe and her colleagues provide a valuable template for conceptualizing and interpreting additional material that the reader may encounter." Alicia Skinner Cook, source????
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Can grief affect the body in ways that necessitate medical care and may even be life-threatening? Scholars from diverse disciplines report on research and explore key issues in this comprehensive review of scientific knowledge on the consequences of losing a loved person through death.
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Whether you agree with the findings of this book or not, it is a foundational book for anyone who wants to understand grief and bereavement. Much research has been done since this book was written and although I do not always agree with Strobe's research and methods, I honor that they both of the Strobes continue to keep bereavement visible if for no other reason than to remind us that it is part of the human experience that we cannot escape if we dare to love.
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less adjusted group, broken heart hypothesis, elicit attachment feelings, bereaved gay men, chronic bereavement, bereaved participants, nonbereaved groups, child bereavement study, nonbereaved controls, bereavement phenomena, adjusted survivors, older bereaved spouses, bereaved respondents, differences between bereaved, bereavement outcome, spousally bereaved, bereavement researchers, experiential system, internal control beliefs, bereavement adjustments, widowed respondents, spousal bereavement, pathological grief, allomaternal care, bereaved elders Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Institute, United States, Compassionate Friends, New York City, Bureau of the Census, Los Angeles, Two-Track Model of Bereavement, Child Behavior Checklist, Parents Children Siblings, Beck Depression Inventory, Eysenck Personality Inventory, Salt Lake City, Texas Grief Inventory, Van Pelt New!
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The loss of a loved one is a tragedy unequalled by any other for most bereaved people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
less adjusted group, broken heart hypothesis, elicit attachment feelings, bereaved gay men, chronic bereavement, bereaved participants, nonbereaved groups, child bereavement study, nonbereaved controls, bereavement phenomena, adjusted survivors, older bereaved spouses, bereaved respondents, differences between bereaved, bereavement outcome, spousally bereaved, bereavement researchers, experiential system, internal control beliefs, bereavement adjustments, widowed respondents, spousal bereavement, pathological grief, allomaternal care, bereaved elders Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Institute, United States, Compassionate Friends, New York City, Bureau of the Census, Los Angeles, Two-Track Model of Bereavement, Child Behavior Checklist, Parents Children Siblings, Beck Depression Inventory, Eysenck Personality Inventory, Salt Lake City, Texas Grief Inventory, Van Pelt New!
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