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Loss and grief are universal experiences and much has been written about both. This books takes a "long view" of both and considers the variety of ways we experience loss and grief - whether through the actual death of a loved one, including a beloved pet, or losses experienced through divorce, medical problems, natural disasters (material items) - over the life course. The author examines what these experiences do to us psychologically, biologically, and emotionally, and offers tools for moving through the various experiences, both big and small.
List of contents
Introduction
1: Defining Loss, Grief, And Bereavement
2: Loss as A Lifelong Process Life Events and The Loss Continuum
3: An Overview of Some Personal Losses
4: As Loss Relates to The Action of Another
5: The Inevitable Types of Loss
6: The Family Constellation of Loss Scenarios
7: Special Considerations About Loss Suicide
8: Extended Loss
9: Global, Environmental, and Geographical Loss
10: The Physiology of Loss and Grief
11: Grieving Styles
12: Across the Globe-Multicultural Understanding of Grief
13: Complicated Grief and Mourning
14: Traumatic Grief and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
15: Coping Strategies for Loss and Grief
16: Therapy, Counseling, Psychiatry, and Medication
17: Alternative Therapies
18: Unhealthy Coping and The Dangers of Self-Medicating
19: Change and What To Expect Over The Long Term
Bibliography
About the author
Nanette Burton Mongelluzzo, PhD, is a psychotherapist in private practice, working with children, adults, adolescents, couples and families. She also works as a consultant with public and private schools on issues ranging from suicide and violence prevention to topics on mental health issues affecting youth. She is the author of Entering Adulthood: Understanding Depression and Suicide (1990), The Everything Self-Esteem Book with CD (2011), and A Comparative Case Study of the Elderly Women Beggars of Central Mexico (2006). She frequently appears on radio and television covering community mental health topics such as the 2011 Arizona wild fires and the Gabrielle Gifford shooting in Tucson, Arizona, in 2012. She teaches suicide and violence prevention programs to school and professionals.
Summary
"A comprehensive self-help book about the various types of loss we experience over a lifetime, and the attendant grief we feel, in all its variations, related to these losses"--Jacket.
