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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of drug-related death bereavement, to increase understanding and help direct scientific research, with contributions from across the globe.
List of contents
PART I. SETTING THE STAGE 1. Introduction to the Handbook
Margaret Stroebe, Kari Dyregrov and Kristine B. Titlestad 2. Researching drug-related death bereavement: Methodological suggestions for the study of key conceptual issues
Eleftheria Tseliou and Georgios Abakoumkin 3. Drug-related death bereavement: Commentary by a bereaved parent on a research study
Kelly Thomas, Kristine B. Titlestad, Margaret Stroebe, and Kari Dyregrov PART II. CONTEXT: THE SOCIETAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF BEREAVEMENT FOLLOWING A DRUG-RELATED DEATH 4. The importance of cultural context: A cross-cultural perspective on drug-death bereavement
Paul C. Rosenblatt 5. Drug policy and welfare systems as context for drug-related death bereavement
Svanaug Fjær and Kari Dyregrov 6. Disenfranchisement following a drug-related death
Kenneth J. Doka and Kari Dyregrov 7. The impact of stigmatization before and after drug-related deaths
Beatrice M. Wendeln, Madeline Oppenheim, Georg Schomerus, Patrick W. Corrigan PART III. CONSEQUENCES AND COPING (1): THE BEREAVEMENT EXPERIENCE FOLLOWING A DRUG-RELATED DEATH 8. Bereaved parents' relationship following drug-related death loss: (What) can we learn from relationship research?
Asuman Buyukcan-Tetik, Catrin Finkenauer, and Sara Albuquerque 9. Understanding parental grief on the death of a child who used narcotics
William T. Feigelman and Kristine B. Titlestad 10. Risk factors for prolonged grief disorder in people bereaved by drug-related deaths
Øyvind R. Kalsås and Maja O'Connor 11. Adjusting to loss after death from drug-related versus other traumatic deaths: Unique challenges?
Jamison S. Bottomley, William T. Feigelman, and Alyssa A. Rheingold 12. Coping with bereavement due to drug-related death in the context of one's own drug challenges
Richard Velleman and Lillian Bruland Selseng 13. Patterns of coping following a drug-related death: An overview of the END project findings
Kristine B. Titlestad, Lillian B. Selseng and Kari Dyregrov PART IV. CONSEQUENCES AND COPING (2): BEYOND THE WESTERN WORLD 14. Dealing with bereavement following a drug-related death in China
Xinxian Liu and Suqin Tang 15. "S¿ Asa": Bereavement following bad deaths in Ghana
Johnny Andoh-Arthur 16. Bereavement following a drug-related death in Mexico and India
Richard Velleman, Marcela Tiburcio and Abhijit Nadkarni PART V. CARE (1): SUPPORTING BEREAVED PERSONS FOLLOWING A DRUG-RELATED DEATH 17. Guidance for supporting/counselling people bereaved through a drug-related death: Unique circumstances, special needs
Peter Cartwright 18. Working with families following drug-death related loss
Sari Lindeman and Lillian B. Selseng 19. On the provision of informal and formal support: From personal networks and colleagues, to schools, front line and health care providers
Kari Dyregrov, Monika Reime and Sonja Mellingen 20. Stigma, kindness and professionalism: On fostering compassion and countering stigmatization
Richard Velleman and Lorna Templeton 21. Belonging and empowerment: Experiences of community support following a drug-related death
Joshua Stout and Benjamin Fleury-Steiner 22. Wall of Silence: Supporting providers after a drug-related death
Adelya A. Urmanche and Kate Szymanski PART VI. CARE (2): TREATMENTS FOR DRUG-RELATED DEATH BEREAVED PERSONS IN NEED 23. Models of adaptation to bereavement: Application to grief therapy after a drug-related death
Jamison S. Bottomley and Robert A. Neimeyer 24. Prolonged Grief Disorder therapy for drug-related death bereaved, with insights from the Dual Process Model
Henry Willis, Natalia Skritskaya, and M. Katherine Shear 25. Psychotherapeutic treatment for bereaved persons encountering grief difficulties following a drug-related death
Jens C. Thimm and Pål Kristensen 26. Brief Eclectic Psychotherapy for prolonged and traumatic grief following drug-related death
Geert Smid, Sophie M.C. Hengst, Joanna Wojtkowiak, Rebecca Gasser, and Paul A. Boelen 27. Structured support for adults bereaved by a drug-related death: The potential of the 5-Step Method
Lorna Templeton 28. Rebuilding relationships: The benefits of increasing self-awareness through writing following a drug-related death
Christina Thatcher PART VII. REFLECTIONS 29. Implications of the END project: Beyond the Norwegian context?
Monika Reime, Lillian B. Selseng, Kristine B. Titlestad and Kari Dyregrov 30. The handbook under the magnifying glass: Lessons (still) to be learnt from the study of drug-
related death bereavement
Margaret Stroebe, Kari Dyregrov, and Kristine B. Titlestad
About the author
Margaret Stroebe, PhD, is Professor Emerita and continuing visiting professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, and the Department of Clinical Psychology & Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen, Netherlands.
Kari Dyregrov, PhD, is Professor Emerita and continuing at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway.
Kristine Berg Titlestad, PhD, is an associate professor at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway.
Summary
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of drug-related death bereavement, to increase understanding and help direct scientific research, with contributions from across the globe.
