Working with Bereavement: A Practical Guide

by Janet Wilson

Overview

A practical guide for those who work with the bereaved in a variety of settings, from nurses and social workers to volunteers. Covering ethics, cultural issues and support networks, an essential text for those seeking to build understanding and skills in order to offer better support to the dying and the bereaved.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230291454
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/20/2014
Series:	Professional Handbooks in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK, Research Fellow in New Zealand Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Theories of Bereavement
3. Immediate Support for the Bereaved
4. Longer Term Support for the Bereaved
5. Cultural and Faith Influences
6. Differing Perspectives of Grief
7. Sudden and Traumatic Death
8. Suicide
9. Death of a Baby/Child
10. Unrecognised Grief
11. Self Care when Working with the Bereaved
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From the Publisher

Working with bereavement is an excellent practical guide that covers a vast array of subject matter from theories of bereavement, working with bereavement to hard to talk about deaths.' Ibadete Fetahu, Nursing Times