Death & Dying Books

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1. Grief, Loss and Bereavement Care: An Evidence-Informed Approach for Health and Social Care Practitioners

   Edited by Peter Wimpenny, John Costello

   Bereavement is a challenging area for everyone, including health and social care practitioners who are often well placed to offer help and support to the bereaved. This invaluable text draws together a comprehensive evidence-base for supporting grieving people from a wide range of research, and...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-46751-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. When Parents Die: Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent, 3rd Edition

   By Rebecca Abrams

   The death of a parent marks an emotional and psychological watershed in a person's life. For children and teenagers, the loss of a parent if not handled sensitively can be a lasting trauma, and for adults too, a parent's death can be a tremendous blow. When Parents Die speaks to bereaved children...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59012-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Human Growth and Development: An Introduction for Social Workers

   By John Sudbery

   Social workers work with people at all stages of life, tackling a multitude of personal, social, health, welfare, legal and educational issues. As a result, all social work students need to understand human growth and development throughout the lifespan. This introductory text provides a...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-43995-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Children, Spirituality, Loss and Recovery

   Edited by Joyce Bellous

   The book demonstrates the hopeful stance the young take in response to ordinary suffering and significant trauma when adults talk with them about their losses. Its underlying themes convey the truth that loss and recovery are normal in the process of growing to maturity. It examines the strength of...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-55136-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   On Death and Dying: What the Dying have to teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and their own Families

   By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

   Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The five stages of grief, first formulated in this hugely influential work forty years ago, are now part of our common understanding of bereavement. The five stages were first identified by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her work with dying patients...

   2008 | 978-0-415-46399-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Bereavement Narratives: Continuing bonds in the twenty-first century

   By Christine Valentine

   Bereavement is often treated as a psychological condition of the individual with both healthy and pathological forms. However, this empirically-grounded study argues that this is not always the best or only way to help the bereaved. In a radical departure, it emphasises normality and social and...

   2008 | 978-0-415-45730-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Dying Declarations: Notes from a Hospice Volunteer

   By David B Resnik

   “Death strips away all of the superficial and mundane details of living and leaves behind life’s bare essentials.”Death is inevitable in life. It knows no boundaries. It knows no skin color, no financial or social standing. It knows nothing but itself. The paradox of Dying...

   2005 | 978-0-7890-2545-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Handling Death and Bereavement at Work

   By David Charles-Edwards

   An estimated 3,500 people die every day in the UK. If someone at work or their partner or close family member dies, managers and colleagues need to respond appropriately. This book breaks new ground in placing bereavement on the management agenda. It addresses some challenging questions such as:...

   2005 | 978-0-415-34725-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Negotiating a Good Death: Euthanasia in the Netherlands

   By John Dececco, Phd, Robert Pool

   Should human beings be allowed to decide when to die? Should doctors be allowed to assist them?During the last ten years there has been much international interest in euthanasia in the Netherlands. In the discussion of euthanasia in the US and the UK, both sides in the debate continually...

   2000 | 978-0-7890-1081-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    The Dying Process: Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care

    By Julia Lawton

    Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of daycare and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to death.Placing the bodily realities of dying very firmly centre stage and questioning the ideology...

    2000 | 978-0-415-22679-0 | Paperback (Routledge)