Loss and trauma : general and close relationship perspectives /

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Imprint:Philadelphia, PA : Brunner-Routledge,cc2000.
Description:xxv, 415 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4303464
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Other authors / contributors:Harvey, John H., 1943-
Miller, Eric D., 1972-
ISBN:1583910123 (case : alk. paper)
1583910131 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part 1. General Perspectives on Loss, Trauma, Coping, and Positive Impacts of Loss
  • From Vulnerability to Growth: Positive and Negative Effects of Stressful Life Events
  • The Other Side of Trauma: Towards a Psychology of Appreciation
  • Bereavement
  • Helping Victims of Loss and Trauma: A Social Psychological Perspective
  • Victim Thinking
  • The Ranking of Personal Grief: Death and Comparative Loss
  • Parallel Selves as Ending of the Grief Work
  • Rational Suicide
  • Part 2. Loss and Trauma Associated with Specific Populations
  • The Role of Perceived Control in Coping with the Losses Associated with Chronic Illness
  • Coping as a "Reality Construction": On the Role of Attentive, Comparative, and Interpretive Processes in Coping with Cancer
  • Loss, Adjustment, and Growth after Cancer: Lessons from Patients' children
  • The Few Gains and Many Losses for Those Stigmatized by Psychiatric Disorders
  • The Human Costs of Organizational Downsizing: The "Irrational" Effects of The Justice Motive on Managers, Dismissed Workers, and Survivors
  • Transcending A Lifetime of Losses: The Importance of Spirituality in Old Age
  • College Student Grief and Loss
  • On Being Homeless and Mentally Ill: A Multitude of Losses and the Possibility of Recovery
  • Part 3. Loss and Trauma Associated with Close Relationships
  • Loss, Resources, and Resiliency in Close Interpersonal Relationships
  • Negotiating Terminal Illness: Communication, Collusion, and Coalition in Caregiving
  • Caregiver Loss and Quality of Care Provided: Pre-Illness Relationship Makes a Difference
  • Adjusting to Infertility
  • Widowhood in Later-Life
  • The Loss of Loved Ones: the Impact of Relationship Infidelity
  • Unyielding custody disputes: Tempering Loss and Courting disaster
  • Cognitive Interdependence and the Experience of Relationship Loss
  • Part 4. Conclusion
  • Commentary on Field of Loss and Trauma and Chapters