Research Catalog

Title

Responding to grief : dying, bereavement and social care / Caroline Currer ; consultant editor, Jo Campling.

Author

Currer, Caroline.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

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Details

Description

x, 181 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"This book argues that dying and bereavement are issues for all social care practitioners, illustrating the wide variety of ways in which they are involved. Examples are taken from mainstream as well as specialist settings. Early chapters focus upon the relevance of theoretical understandings and the perspectives of dying and bereaved people themselves. There is detailed consideration of practitioners' accounts of their responses to people who are grieving. Conclusions relate to issues of training and support, and implications for practice."--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Social work with the terminally ill > Great Britain
• Terminally ill > Great Britain
• Bereavement > Great Britain
• Terminal care > Great Britain
• Grief
• Death > Psychological aspects
• Bereavement
• Social service
• Grief
• Terminal Care
• Attitude to Death
• Bereavement
• Social Work
• Counseling
• grief
• mourning
• counseling
• Social service
• Death > Psychological aspects
• Social work with the terminally ill
• Terminal care
• Terminally ill
• United Kingdom
• Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: Dying, Bereavement and Social Care -- 1.1. Dying, Bereavement and Social Care: An Ambiguous Relationship -- 1.2. Aims, Approach, Sources and Structure -- 2. Social Care -- 2.1. Care and Cares: Some Definitions -- 2.2. Structure of Services -- 2.3. Essential Feature of Social Care -- 2.4. The Social Context of Social Care: Current Issues and Trends -- 3. Understanding Death and Dying -- 3.1. The Relevance for Practice of Theoretical Understandings -- 3.2. Defining Death: Biological and Social Death -- 3.3. The Demography of Death -- 3.4. Changed Social Understandings of Death -- 3.5. Rites of Passage -- 3.6. Dying: Introduction -- 3.7. Who is Dying? -- 3.8. What is Dying? -- 3.9. Facing Death: Psychological Perspectives -- 4. Facing Death -- 4.1. Managing the Present -- 4.2. Abandoning the Future -- 4.3. Separation, Loneliness and the Social Bond -- 4.4. Some Reflections upon Theory -- 5. Care Workers' Involvement with Those Facing Their Own Death -- 5.1. Social Care with People Facing Death: A Broad Spectrum -- 5.2. The Social Care Response -- 5.3. Issues of Training and Support -- 5.4. Conclusion: Social Care with People who are Dying -- 6. Understanding Grief and Bereavement -- 6.1. Defining Key Terms -- 6.2. The Grieving Process and the Grief Work Hypothesis -- 6.3. Theoretical Developments and Debate -- 6.4. A Child's Grief -- 6.5. Consequences of Grief -- 6.6. Conclusion: Understanding Grief -- 7. Experiencing Bereavement -- 7.1. Individual Aspects of the Experience of Grief -- 7.2. Social Aspects of the Grieving Experience -- 7.3. Responding to Grief: The What and Who of Receiving Help -- 8. Care Workers' Involvement with Those Who are Bereaved -- 8.1. Bereavement: A Significant Feature in All Areas of Social Care -- 8.2. The Social Care Response -- 8.3. Issues of Training and Support -- 9. Responding to Grief: Conclusions for Social Care -- 9.1. Why Should Social Care Workers be Involved with Those Who are Dying or Bereaved? -- 9.2. What Can Social Care Workers Do? -- 9.3. What Do We Need if We are to Do this Well? -- 9.4. How is this Particular to Social Care?

ISBN

• 0333736397
• 9780333736395

LCCN

2001339383

OCLC

• ocm44915584
• 44915584
• SCSB-1218160

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library