Research Catalog

Title

Coping with loss : helping patients and their families / edited by Colin Murray Parkes and Andrew Markus.

Publication

London : BMJ Books, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Parkes, Colin Murray
• Markus, Andrew (Andrew Charles)

Description

viii, 162 p. : ill.

Subjects

• Bereavement
• Professional-Patient Relations
• Grief therapy
• Loss (Psychology)
• Medical personnel and patient
• Bereavement > Psychological aspects
• Anxiety, Separation
• Adaptation, Psychological

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction / Colin Murray Parkes -- 2. Bereavement in adult life / Colin Murray Parkes -- 3. Bereavement in childhood / Dora Black -- 4. Separation and related problems of pair bond relationships / Robert S. Weiss -- 5. Surgery and loss of body parts / Peter Maguire and Colin Murray Parkes -- 6. Loss of sensory and cognitive functions / Roy Fitzgerald and Colin Murray Parkes -- 7. Occupational loss / Leonard Fagin -- 8. Grief that is overlooked, hidden, or discouraged / Colin Murray Parkes -- 9. Loss in later life / Brice Pitt -- 10. dying adult / Colin Murray Parkes -- 11. dying child and bereaved parent / Dora Black -- 12. Disasters / Colin Murray Parkes and Dora Black -- 13. doctor's losses: ideals versus realities / Glin Bennet -- 14. Assumptions about loss and principles of care / Colin Murray Parkes -- App. A. Organisations in the United Kingdom providing training, advice, or counselling to patients, their families, and professional care givers -- App. B. Organisations in the United States providing training, advice, or counselling to patients, their families, and professional care givers.

ISBN

072791068X

OCLC

• 41300144
• SCSB-14234191

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library