| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 359 pages ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
ch. 1. Beyond decathexia : toward a new psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of mourning / George Hagman -- ch. 2. Relearning the world : making and finding meanings / Thomas Attig -- ch. 3. Meaning making in the dual process model of coping with bereavement / Margaret S. Stroebe and Henk Schut -- ch. 4. The inner representation of the dead child in the psychic and social narratives of bereaved parents / Dennis Klass -- ch. 5. Family construction of meaning / Janice Winchester Nadeau -- ch. 6. The death of a child with a developmental disability / Elizabeth Moulton Milo -- ch. 7. The tormented and the transformed : understanding responses to loss and trauma / Christopher G. Davis -- ch. 8. Posttraumatic growth : the positive lessons of loss / Lawrence G. Calhoun and Richard G. Tedeschi -- ch. 9. Spiritual resources following a partner's death from AIDS / T. Anne Richards -- ch. 10. Positive outcomes of losing a loved one / Thomas T. Frantz, Megan M. Farrell, and Barbara C. Trolley -- ch. 11. Shattered beliefs : reconstituting the self of the trauma counselor / Marla J. Arvay -- ch. 12. Embracing their memory : the construction of accounts of loss and hope / John H. Harvey, Heather R. Carlson, Tamara M. Huff, and Melinda A. Green -- ch. 13. Research as therapy : the power of narrative to effect change / Bronna D. Romanoff -- ch. 14. The language of loss : grief therapy as a process of meaning reconstruction / Robert A. Neimeyer -- ch. 15. Construing stress : a constructivist therapeutic approach to posttraumatic stress reactions / Kenneth W. Sewell and Amy M. Williams -- ch. 16. Trauma, grief, and surviving childhood sexual abuse / Stephen J. Fleming and Sheri Kathleen Bélanger -- ch. 17. Videography : re-storying the lives of clients facing terminal illness / Sandra A. Rigazio-DiGilio. |
| Subject |
Loss (Psychology)
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Meaning (Psychology)
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Grief.
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Bereavement -- Psychological aspects.
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Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic -- therapy.
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Adaptation, Psychological.
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Bereavement.
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Family Relations.
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Life Change Events.
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Psychotherapy -- methods.
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| Added Author |
Neimeyer, Robert A., 1954-
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| Added Title |
Meaning reconstruction and the experience of loss |
| ISBN |
1557987424 |
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