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| Preface | |
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| Introduction To Grief And Loss | |
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| Basic Facts about Loss | |
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| Why Study Grief and Loss? | |
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| Loss Experiences that Generate Grief Reactions | |
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| Grief in every practice setting | |
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| Summary | |
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| Symbolic Loss | |
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| Symbolic Loss | |
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| Similarities and Differences in Symbolic and Actual Losses | |
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| Death is acknowledged; symbolic loss often is not | |
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| Loss due to life transitions | |
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| Health-related symbolic loss | |
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| Summary | |
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| Self-Preparation And Self-Care For Professionals Encountering Loss And Grief | |
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| Reviewing our Own Experiences and Attitudes Related to Grief | |
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| Assessing and Enhancing our Readiness to Address Grief in our Work | |
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| Bringing Up Personal Emotions and Memories for Every Professional | |
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| Limited preparation and support for grief in organizations | |
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| Increased Recognition of the Impact of Grief on Professionals | |
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| Sources of education and support | |
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| Supervision, Consultation, and Collaboration with Other Helping Professionals | |
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| Secondary trauma | |
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| Summary | |
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| Loss and Grief Across the Life Span: Childhood and Adolescence | |
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| Loss in the Formative Years | |
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| External Factors Influencing Grief Reactions in Children and Adolescents | |
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| The Influence of Development on Grief Reactions | |
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| Grief Reactions at Different Developmental Stages | |
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| Infants | |
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| Age 2-3 years (toddlers) | |
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| Age 3-6 years | |
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| Age 6-9 years | |
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| Age 9-12 years | |
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| Adolescence | |
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| Summary | |
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| Grief And Loss Across The Life Span: Ypung And Middle Adulthood | |
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| Factors in Addition to Age and Developmental Stage that Influence Grief Reactions | |
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| Developmental and External Factors Influencing Grief Reactions | |
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| Young adulthood | |
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| Middle adulthood | |
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| Summary | |
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| Loss And Grief Across The Life Span: Older Adults | |
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| Loss and Grief Later in Life | |
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| The Influence of Advanced Age and Longer Life Expectancy | |
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| Cultural connections and the influence of technology | |
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| Symbolic and Actual Loss for Older Adults | |
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| Developmental and External Factors Influencing Grief Reactions | |
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| Developmental factors | |
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| External factors affecting older adults | |
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| Working with Grieving Older Adults | |
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| Strategies to help older adults | |
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| Rewards of grief work with older adults | |
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| Summary | |
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| Normal And Complicated Grief Reactions | |
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| Theories that Inform our Understanding of Grief | |
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| Early psychodynamic theories | |
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| Theories of contemporary grief practitioners and researchers | |
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| Common Reactions in "Normal" Grief | |
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| Complicated Grief | |
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| Who is at risk for complicated grief? | |
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| Interventions for Normal and Complicated Grief | |
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| Why and how can a referral to a mental health professional or grief therapist help? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Cultural And Spiritual Influences | |
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| The Influence of Culture and Spirituality in Coping with Loss and Grief | |
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| Culture | |
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| Cultural Awareness, Sensitivity, and Competence | |
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| Gender and Media Influences | |
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| Spirituality | |
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| Summary | |
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| GriefF In The Context Of Anticipated Loss | |
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| Anticipated Loss in Diverse Practice Settings | |
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| "Anticipatory Grief" | |
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| End of Life and Palliative Care | |
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| Helping Individuals | |
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| Helping Families | |
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| Advance Directives | |
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| Summary | |
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| What Can We Do To Help Individuals And Families? | |
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| Misconceptions about Grief | |
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| Empathic Communication | |
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| Interventions for Normal and Complicated Grief | |
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| Grieving individuals | |
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| Preventive interventions | |
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| Monitoring, with social support | |
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| Bereavement Counseling | |
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| Grief Therapy | |
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| Collaborating with Other Helping Professionals | |
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| Teamwork | |
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| Functions of team members | |
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| The role of professional organizations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Helping Groups And Organizations | |
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| Group Models | |
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| Children's groups | |
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| Identifying and Developing Organizational Resources | |
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| Establishing a Bereavement Protocol: Interdisciplinary and Interorganizational Collaboration | |
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| Summary | |
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| Communities And Traumatic Grief | |
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| Trauma | |
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| Posttraumatic Stress Disorder | |
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| When Communities Experience Trauma and Grief | |
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| When communities grieve | |
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| Creating Remembrances and Memorials | |
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| Summary | |
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| Self-Care: Sustainning Hope, Helpfulness, And Competence In Working With Grief | |
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| Continuing Education and Professional Development | |
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| Self-Care | |
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| Professional Support Systems | |
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| Summary | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Common Losses Across the Lifespan | |
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| Helpful Strategies for Coping With Grief | |
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| Strategies for Professionals Helping Children and Families Cope With Traumatic Loss | |
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| Remembrance Celebrations: Planning Your Own Memorial Service | |
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| Expressive Techniques | |
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| Caregiver's Retreat Agenda and Sample Invitation Letter | |
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| Internet Resources | |
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| Annotated Bibliography | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |