Grief and Loss: Understanding the Journey / Edition 1

by Stephen J. Freeman

Overview

Enhance your understanding of the process and dynamics of grief and loss with GRIEF AND LOSS: UNDERSTANDING THE JOURNEY! Providing a human voice to the experience, this counseling text uses examples that allow you to enter the world of real people and their losses. A chapter on ethics allows you a glimpse in to the complicated ethical labyrinth involved in end-of-life decisions. Definitions of terms provide you with easy access and make studying easy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900534593918
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	04/21/2004
Series:	Death & Dying/Grief & Loss
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Stephen J. Freeman is a professor of Counseling and Chair of the Department of Counselor Education at California State University, Sacramento. Dr. Freeman served on the graduate faculty at Texas Woman s University for 18 years where he was the Coordinator of the Counseling and Development Program. He also maintained a private practice in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Dr Freeman has published on a variety of topics relating to death, grief, and loss and is the author of the book ETHICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction. 2. Death and Dying: A Process. 3. Ethics and End-of-Life Decision Making. 4. Attachment Theory: Implications for Understanding Grief and Loss. 5. Grief, the Reaction to Loss. 6. Unresolved Grief. 7. Grieving Special Types of Loss. 8. Children and Loss. 9. Therapeutic Interventions. 10. Families and Grief. 11. Caring for the Caregiver. Epilogue. References.