Complicated Grieving and Bereavement

Gerry Cox, Robert Bendiksen, Robert Stevenson

• SECTION 1: Theories of Complicated GriefCHAPTER 1 Relearning the World: Always Complicated, Sometimes More Than Others Thomas AttigSECTION 2: Children and Complicated GriefCHAPTER 2 The Consequences of Sudden Traumatic Death: The Vulnerability of Bereaved Children and Adolescents and Ways Professionals Can Help David W. AdamsCHAPTER 3 Homicide Bereavement: Scary-Tales for Children Paul T. Clements, Jr.CHAPTER 4 The 3 R’s . . . Rage, Regrets, and Revenge—Uncovering and Assisting with the “Dark Side†Feelings of Children’s Grief Toni GriffithCHAPTER 5 Children’s Experiences of Death: Three Case Studies Kerry CavanaghSECTION 3: Complicated Grief in Special PopulationsCHAPTER 6 Camouflaged Grief: Survivor Grief in Families of Soldiers Still Listed as MIA Larry R. DarrahCHAPTER 7 Complicated Grief: Suicide Among the Canadian Inuit Antoon A. LeenaarsCHAPTER 8 Grieving in the Context of a Community of Differently-Abled People: The Experience of L’Arche Daybreak Jane PowellCHAPTER 9 Minding Mental Illness in the Grief Process Lynne MartinsCHAPTER 10 Dementia: A Cause of Complicated Grieving Catherine Anne QuinnCHAPTER 11 Grief Complicated by Spiritual Abuse Boyd C. PurcellCHAPTER 12 Spirituality and Religion: Risks for Complicated Mourning Richard B. GilbertCHAPTER 13 Can We Predict Complicated Grief Before the Bereavement? A Report on Bereavement Risk Assessment in a Palliative Care Setting Christine Hodgson, Lynda Weaver, and Pippa HallCHAPTER 14 Personality as a Variable in Grief Response Susan K. ParkerCHAPTER 15 Miscarriage in the Emergency Room: Meeting Parents’Needs Diane L. MidlandCHAPTER 16 Death at Birth: Inner Experiences and Personal Meanings Janis L. KeyserCHAPTER 17 Partners in Complicated Grief: National Grief Reactions to Disasters and Grassroots Memorialization Hannah SherebrinCHAPTER 18 Viewing the Body and Grief Complications: The Role of Visual Confirmation in Grief Reconciliation Richard J. PaulCHAPTER 19 It’s Never Easy! Children, Adolescents and Complicated Grief Robert G. StevensonCHAPTER 20 Complicated Grief: Family Systems As a Model for Healing Stephen J. HoogerbruggeCHAPTER 21 Dying and Bereaved Children and the Arts, Humor, and Music Gerry R. CoxContributors Index