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Living Through Loss

Interventions Across the Life Span

Nancy R Hooyman author Betty J Kramer author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Published:22nd Apr '08

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Identifies the various ways in which people experience loss over the course of life and discusses the interventions effective at each stage of life.Living Through Loss is the first book to identify the many ways in which people experience loss over the course of life and to discuss the interventions most effective at each stage of life. The authors' starting point is that loss comes in many forms and can include not only suffering the death of a person one loves but also giving birth to a child with disabilities, living with chronic illness, or being abused, assaulted, or otherwise traumatized. They approach loss from the perspective of the resilience model, which acknowledges the capacity of people to integrate loss into their lives, and write sensitively about the role of age, race, culture, sexual orientation, gender, and spirituality in a person's response to loss. More than a comprehensive source on loss, the volume is distinguished by the authors' beautiful use of clients' experiences-and their own-thus making their book definitive and indelible.

This is an excellent resource... Highly Recommended. Choice This book is both a mine of information and provides an enormous amount of food for thought and reflection. Highly recommended. -- Roger Woodruff, Director of Palliative Care, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care News

ISBN: 9780231122474

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480 pages