Grief and its challenges
By: Neil Thompson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780230277564
Subjects: Grief; Counseling; Methods
Description: "This short introduction to loss and its impact on people's lives is ideally suited to students and practitioners across many professions. With sensitivity and simplicity, Neil Thompson explores how grieving has been theorized and explains the crucial social dimensions to loss and grief that balance and extend more individualized models"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: PART 1: MAKING SENSE OF GRIEFIntroductionLoss and griefCrisis and traumaThe social contextPART 2: GRIEF AND HEALINGIntroductionExperiencing griefResponding to grief 1: The personal responseResponding to grief 2: The professional responsePART 3: GRIEF WITHOUT HEALINGIntroductionComplications of grievingGrief and psychological problemsGrief and social problemsConclusionGuide to further reading.