Human beings experience many losses in a lifetime, but the death of a loved one is among
the most traumatic. While grieving is a natural part of life, it still challenges our daily …

Empirical research across groups of psychotherapists regarding the phenomenon of
working with client grief is limited, particularly research into psychologists' experience in this …

I deem it a professional honor to have been invited by my esteemed peers and colleagues to
write this chapter. It gives me the opportunity to draw upon my many years of professional …

This research explores the ethical challenges arising in palliative care in the Western (Anglo-
Saxon) context and the Chinese context. In each context, the history, key values …

Older adults may live years with chronic, progressive and often comorbid, debilitating
illnesses (Anderson and Horvath 2004), with the incidence of chronic and terminal illnesses …

This entry covers end of life care and bereavement influenced by palliative care and death
studies. Although death is often thought of as a biological event, dying is a social process …

End-of-Life, the topic of the decade of 1990-2000, brought the focus on how we die in
America. Death encompasses cultural, ethnic, spiritual, social and physical elements, which …

This study is a phenomenological inquiry into lived body among younger adults with cancer.
A combined qualitative method integrating Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis …

This research explores the lived experience of encountering mortality in the palliative care
context. Six counsellors included in the study had served on a Palliative Care Crisis Team in …

Abstract [eng] The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between attitudes
towards aging, psychological state and empathy among care and nursing institutions' staff …