1st Edition

The Final Transition

By Richard Kalish Copyright 1985
    384 Pages
    by Routledge

    384 Pages
    by Routledge

    This text is not just another reader on death, but rather a carefully developed book, created specifically for those persons whose major interests are either death education, death counseling, or, of course, both. The audience which this book addresses include: persons who have had either experience in death counseling or education or previous academic work; those who are contemplating professional work in the field or who are already in the process of developing this area as one of their fields of competence; and individuals who are already either counselors or educators or otherwise involved in the fields of mental health or education and who wish to learn more about the relationship of death and grief to their work.

    Editor's Preface

    Introduction Robert J. Kastenbaum 

    PART 1: Death, Dying, and Grief: The Basic Issues Coping With Death Richard A. Kalish 

    An Overview of Death Attitudes and Expectations Richard A. Kalish and David K. Reynolds 

    The Human Experience of Death, or What Can We Learn from Near-Death Experiences? Russell Noyes, Jr. 

    Funeral Roles: Ritualized Expectations Tillman Rodabough 

    Death and Survivorship: The Final Transition Richard A. Kalish 

    Children's Anniversary Reactions to the Death of A Family Member Sandra Sutherland Fox 

    The Impact of Parental Death on Middle-Aged Children Miriam S. Moss and Sidney Z. Moss 

    Weathering Widowhood: Problems and Adjustment of the Widowed During the First Year Raymond G. Carey 

    PART 2: Institutional Care A Group Awaiting Death: The Social System's Perspective on a Naturally Occurring Group Situation Steven Starker and Joan E. Starker 

    The Social Organization of Terminal Care in Two Pediatric Hospitals Kenneth J. Doka 

    Hospice Care in the United States: The Process Begins Robert W. Buckingham  

    PART 3: Death and Grief in a Cross-Cultural Context How Death Came to Mankind: Myths and Legends Alain Corcos and Lawrence Krupka 

    The Cultural Construction of Aging and Dying in a Melanesian Community Dorothy Ayers Counts and David R. Counts

    He Died Too Quick!" The Process of Dying in A Hutterian Colony Peter H. Stephenson 

    The Impact of Urbanism on Death and Dying among Black People in a Rural Community in Middle Tennessee Arthur C. Hill 

    PART 4: Counseling and Psychotherapy Counseling Dying Clients Daniel McKitrick 

    Clinical Thanatology and Psychotherapy: Some Reflections on Caring for the Dying Person Loma Feigenberg and Edwin S. Shneidman 

    Clients Nearing Death: Behavioral Treatment Perspectives George W. Rebok and William J. Hoyer 

    Bereaved Parents and the Compassionate Friends: Affiliation and Healing Dennis Klass 

    Volunteers and the Care of the Terminal Patient Chwee Lye Chng and Michael Kirby Ramsey 

    PART 5: Death Education Death Educator as Deacon Richard A. Kalish 

    Teaching about Dying and Death in a Multidisciplinary Student Group David Barton, Miles K. Crowder, and John M. Flexner 

    The Arts: A Source of Comfort and Insight for Children Who Are Learning About Death Sandra L. Bertman 

    A Group Desensitization Procedure for the Reduction of Death Anxiety Ronald L. Peal, Paul J. Handal, and Frank H. Gilner 

    Counseling in Catastrophic Illness: A Self-Instructional Unit Ronald Koenig 

    Comparison between Experiential and Didactic Methods of Death Education Joseph A. Durlak 

    Coping: Effects of Death Education Larry A. Bugen 

    Epilogue

    Appendix 

     

    Biography

    Richard Kalish