Sustaining meaning in life, maintaining emotional well-being, and balancing attachments to
the living and the deceased are features associated with the psychological (and often …

This chapter seeks to determine the nature of adaptive coping with bereavement and
provides a review of the scientific research on the issue. It is first necessary to establish what …

Names: Klass, Dennis, editor.| Steffen, Edith, editor. Title: Continuing bonds in bereavement:
new directions for research and practice/edited by Dennis Klass, Edith Steffen. Description …

There are shortcomings in traditional theorizing about effective ways of coping with
bereavement, most notably, with respect to the so-called" grief work hypothesis." Criticisms …

Fourth Edition Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title! Praise for the Fourth Edition:" In the fields
of death education, research and counseling/psychology, surely Bill Worden is a giant... ALL …

A prominent theme presented in this volume is that symptoms in the bereaved individual
have meaning-making significance and that meaning reconstruction in response to loss is …

This book is a resource that can stand on its own as a primary text for undergraduate and
graduate courses in death, dying, and bereavement, and can be used to good effect as a …

A comprehensive quantitative review of published randomized controlled outcome studies of
grief counseling and therapy suggests that such interventions are typically ineffective, and …

Viewed from a constructivist perspective, grieving is a process of reconstructing a world of
meaning that has been challenged by loss. Although most people successfully navigate …

Viewed in an expanded frame, the phenomena of grief and bereavement call for analysis in
sociological, psychological, and psychiatric terms. In this article, the authors argue that a …