Living Through Loss: Interventions Across the Life Span

Nancy R. Hooyman and Betty J. Kramer

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January, 2006
Cloth, 480 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12246-7
$90.00 / £62.00

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Theoretical Perspectives on Grief

2. The Grief Process

3. Resilience and Meaning Making

4. Grief and Loss in Childhood

5. Interventions for Grieving Children

6. Grief and Loss in Adolescence

7. Interventions for Grieving Adolescents

8. Grief and Loss in Young Adulthood

9. Interventions for Grieving Young Adults

10. Grief and Loss in Middle Adulthood

11. Interventions for Grieving Midlife Adults

12. Grief and Loss in Old Age

13. Interventions for Grieving Older Adults

14. Professional Self-Awareness and Self-Care

Concluding Thoughts

References

Index

Related Subjects

• Gerontology

About the Author

Nancy R. Hooyman is the Hooyman Endowed Professor and dean emerita at the University of Washington, School of Social Work. In addition to numerous awards and fellowships, she is the author of eight books and more than one hundred articles.Betty J. Kramer is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Social Work. She is a nationally recognized social work leader in the field of palliative and end-of-life care, the recipient of numerous awards and honors, and the coeditor of Men as Caregivers: Theory, Research, and Service Implications.

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