The compassionate communities movement challenges the notion that death and dying
should be housed within clinical and institutional contexts, and works to normalize …

Death literacy is defined as a set of knowledge and skills that make it possible to gain
access to understand and act upon end-of-life and death care options. People, and …

In contrast to dominant Western conceptions of bereavement in largely intrapsychic terms,
the authors argue that grief or mourning is not primarily an interior process, but rather one …

Grief is a family affair, yet it is commonly viewed as an individual phenomenon. As an
international, interdisciplinary team, we explore grief within a family context across …

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 …

In her personal communication with us during the germination of this project, Natalie
Rogers, pioneering art therapist and daughter of psychologist Carl Rogers, expressed her …

Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is an authoritative guide to the study of and
work with major themes in bereavement. Its chapters synthesize the best of research-based …

Grief, understood in human terms, has existed as long as humanity itself, standing as it does
at the intersection of attachment and separation, of love and loss. And for nearly as long the …

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 …

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 …