Bereaved individuals often experience profound social pressure to conform to societal
norms that constrict the experience of grief rather than support it. This article explores grief in …

Research into complicated grief assumes that it is a psychological disorder of the grieving
individual. This article suggests seven other things that complicated grief may also be: a …

This book argues that dying and bereavement are issues for all social care practitioners,
illustrating the wide variety of ways in which they are involved. Examples are taken from …

This edited volume explores the wide range of practice situations across the human services
in which issues loss and grief are likely to be important. It also extends understandings of …

A key theme in the bereavement literature is the recognition that every grief experience is
unique and dependent on many variables, such as the circumstances of the death …

Understanding Grief is a comprehensive and accessible'one stop'introduction to all the
major models of grief. In addition to the individual perspective, bereavement is discussed in …

Over the last millennium, patterns of mortality have changed and have determined who
grieves and how. At all times grief has been recognized as a threat to physical and mental …

Produced as a companion to the Hospice Foundation of America's fifth annual National
Bereavement Teleconference, this volume examines how key aspects of identity affect how …

The author explores the commonly held belief that grief, in response to a significant loss, is a
finite, time-limited, and predictable process. Examination of this idea suggests the possibility …

'In a book that is replete with illustrative case studies, Linda Machin draws together the
findings of a wide range of psychological and sociological theory and research in order to …