This chapter uses a social constructivist perspective to provide an overview of how grief has
been viewed in western society over the past century. Theories of grief have evolved leading …

In the first part of this series of overviews on bereavement, Walter (1) identified the
importance of understanding grief as a social process. This review is concerned with grief as …

and between professional health caregivers and the family of the dead person. 7. There is
deepening realisation that in helping mourners cope with grief we are dealing not just with …

HIS CHAPTER presents a view of bereavement that reflects some of the complexity of the
grieving process, thus creating a broad framework for understanding how people cope with …

This chapter will set out current thinking on bereavement, grief, and loss, identifying the
different influences on their construction. It will then go on to review how points in the life …

Throughout the past decade our understandings of the grieving process have been
challenged and expanded in at least five major ways. First we have extended our definitions …

In this article, the author reflects on the changes during the last 25 years in our
understanding of grief and on the emerging new issues in the field of loss and grief studies …

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 …

About the book: This book focuses on what happens after a death has taken place. Drawing
on social theory and anthropology, contributors examine responses to death as they occur …

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 …