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New research continues to challenge our assumptions about the fundamental nature and course of grief: its roots in our biology, our emotions, and our social interactions. The ""Handbook of Bereavement Research"" provides a broad view of diverse contemporary approaches to bereavement, examining both normal adaptation and complicated manifestations of grief. In this volume, leading interdisciplinary scholars focus on three important themes in bereavement research: consequences, coping and care. In exploring the consequences of bereavement, authors examine developmental factors that influence grief both for the individual and the family at different phases of the life cycle. In exploring coping, they describe exciting new empirical studies about how people can and do cope with grief, without professional intervention. People do not grieve alone, so chapters on coping present new ways to understand grief at an interpersonal level as well. Until recently, intervention for the bereaved has not been scientifically guided and has become the subject of challenging differences of opinion and approach. Chapters in the care section of the volume critically examine interventions to date and provide guidance for assessment and more empirically guided treatment strategies. The ""Handbook"" provides an up-to-date comprehensive review of scientific knowledge about bereavement in an authoritative yet accessible way that should be useful reading for researchers, practitioners and health care professionals in the 21st century.

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• Preface(p. xi)
• Contributors(p. xiii)
• 1 Introduction: Concepts and Issues in Contemporary Research on Bereavement(p. 3)
• Part I. Theory, Methodology, and Ethical Issues(p. 23)
• 2 A Historical Overview of the Scientific Study of Bereavement(p. 25)
• 3 Grief, Bonds, and Relationships(p. 47)
• 4 Emotion, Attachment, and Bereavement: A Conceptual Commentary(p. 63)
• 5 Quantitative or Qualitative? Measurement Issues in the Study of Grief(p. 89)
• 6 The Dynamics of Ethical Decision Making in Bereavement Research(p. 119)
• Part II. Consequences: The Bereaved Individual Across the Life Span(p. 143)
• 7 Bereavement Experiences and Personal Growth(p. 145)
• 8 Developmental Context of Childhood: Grief and Regrief Phenomena(p. 169)
• 9 Bereavement During Adolescence: A Review of Research(p. 199)
• 10 Parental Response to Child Loss Across the Life Cycle: Clinical and Research Perspectives(p. 219)
• 11 Bereavement and Old Age(p. 241)
• Part III. Consequences: The Bereaved Individual in Social Context(p. 261)
• 12 Grief From an Evolutionary Perspective(p. 263)
• 13 A Social Constructionist Perspective on Cultural Differences in Grief(p. 285)
• 14 Grief in Interpersonal Perspective: Theories and Their Implications(p. 301)
• 15 Meaning Making in Family Bereavement: A Family Systems Approach(p. 329)
• 16 Risk Factors in Bereavement Outcome: A Methodological and Empirical Review(p. 349)
• Part IV. Coping: Basic Concepts and Their Measurement(p. 373)
• 17 Models of Coping With Bereavement: A Review(p. 375)
• 18 The Myths of Coping With Loss Revisited(p. 405)
• 19 Processes of Grieving: How Bonds Are Continued(p. 431)
• 20 Assessment of Coping With Loss: Dimensions and Measurement(p. 449)
• Part V. Coping: Exploration of the Mechanisms(p. 471)
• 21 Physiological Indices of Functioning in Bereavement(p. 473)
• 22 Grief and Emotion: A Social--Functional Perspective(p. 493)
• 23 Disclosing and Sharing Emotion: Psychological, Social, and Health Consequences(p. 517)
• 24 Ruminative Coping and Adjustment to Bereavement(p. 545)
• 25 Revised Coping Theory and the Process of Bereavement(p. 563)
• Part VI. Care: Intervening in the Coping Process(p. 585)
• 26 Psychotherapeutic and Pharmacological Intervention for Bereaved Persons(p. 587)
• 27 Traumatic Grief as a Distinct Disorder: A Rationale, Consensus Criteria, and a Preliminary Empirical Test(p. 613)
• 28 Grief and Cognitive--Behavioral Therapy: The Reconstruction of Meaning(p. 647)
• 29 Physiological Effects of Bereavement and Bereavement Support Group Interventions(p. 671)
• 30 The Efficacy of Bereavement Interventions: Determining Who Benefits(p. 705)
• Part VII. Retrospective on the New Handbook: Editorial View(p. 739)
• 31 Future Directions for Bereavement Research(p. 741)
• Author Index(p. 767)
• Subject Index(p. 799)
• About the Editors(p. 813)

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Understanding and coping with the shockwave that death sends through the family and community are the focus of this essential, well-written reference. International and diverse bereavement experts elucidate the nature and course of grief and offer a scientific basis for evaluation and intervention. The discussion covers theory, methods, and ethics; consequences (across the life span and for the individual); coping (basic concepts, measurement, and mechanisms); interventions in coping; and future research. The section on qualitative and quantitative measurement and ethical issues in vulnerable populations will be particularly valuable for researchers. Another of the book's particular strengths is its developmental and evolutionary perspective and the critical examination of old ideas that lack empirical support, for example stage theories. Clinicians will find evidence-based guidelines for practice in the chapters on coping and interventions: using systems theory, the author examines how a family constructs meaning during bereavement. Poignant case examples illuminate the concepts in this chapter. An excellent resource that should be on the shelf of every health care provider, bereavement scholar, or counselor, this volume will also be useful in libraries supporting extensive undergraduate or graduate programs in psychology. S. M. Valente University of Southern California