Practical and inspiring, this best-selling book helps you learn to cope with encounters with death, dying, and bereavement. The authors integrate classical and contemporary material, present task-based approaches for individual and family coping, and include four substantial chapters devoted to death-related issues faced by children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. The text discusses a variety of cultural and religious perspectives that affect people's understandings and practices associated with such encounters. The book also offers practical guidelines for constructive communication designed to encourage productive living in the face of death.

Product Description: In this comprehensive handbook, Charles Corr and David Balk improve our understanding of the challenges faced by adolescents when coping with death, dying, and bereavement. The volume is organized into three parts. Part I addresses specific issues involved in confrontations with death...read more

Product Description: Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Reference on providing assistance to children coping with death and bereavement, for therapists. Companion to Corr's Handbook of Adolescent Death and Bereavement, 1996. Covers infancy, toddlerhood, early childhood, and middle childhood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A guide, textbook, and reference for gerontological nurses. Covers assessment, physical and psychosocial needs, and the role of nurses (including ethical dilemmas and work-related stress). Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Product Description: Book by Corr, Charles A.

Provides an annotated list of resources concerning hospices, attitudes towards death, death in literature, euthanasia, living wills, and medical ethics

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Product Description: Book by Corr, Charles A., Stillion, Judith M.