"Childrenís Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping is a very well researched document and well written by an impressive cadre of scholars....The book is a must read for marriage and family t……続きを見る
An estimated 3,500 people die every day in the UK. If someone at work or their partner or close family member dies, managers and colleagues need to respond appropriately. This book breaks new ground……続きを見る
The most helpful grief book to read when you're ready to start healing after the loss of a loved one.
Discover the transformative power of healing and hope with this top-rated grief book and compass……続きを見る
著者:Rachael Hanel
出版社: University of Minnesota Press
発売日: 2013年03月01日
Rachael Hanel’s name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasn’t at all unusual in her world: her father was a gravedigger in the small Minnesota town of Waseca, and……続きを見る
"Capturing from the start that 'Childhood is, and always has been, a vulnerable time,' we have a rich in gathering of contributed pieces that bring us into the raw, fragile arena of children traumat……続きを見る
A Safe Place for Caleb is a comprehensive and richly illustrated resource for individuals of all ages who are dealing with attachment problems. Parents, professionals, and lay people will find this ……続きを見る
In this remarkable book psychologist Marie de Hennezel draws upon her personal experience of working with the terminally ill in a palliative care unit in Paris. Her encounters with people at the end……続きを見る
著者:Julia Lawton
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2002年01月04日
Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of daycare and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to de……続きを見る
As a doctor at the end of a 24-hour shift in the intensive care unit, it’s usually easy for me to fall asleep. Exhaustion hits me like a rock and it doesn’t matter that the morning sun is pouring in……続きを見る
What happens when older men become widowers? Popular books, movies, and television present widowers as lost and unable to cope or care for themselves. These stereotypes do not encapsulate the experi……続きを見る
著者:James W. Green
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2012年03月15日
In November 1998, millions of television viewers watched as Thomas Youk died. Suffering from the late stages of Lou Gehrig's disease, Youk had called upon infamous Michigan pathologist Dr. Jack Kevo……続きを見る
What do all human beings have in common? Despite all the self-help books about sex, money, power, happiness, weight, and relationships, there is one thing we all face that none of that guidance can ……続きを見る
著者:Beth Perry
出版社: Athabasca University Press
発売日: 2009年08月01日
Within most disciplines, there are those who are recognized by their colleagues as being exceptionally competent practitioners. These individuals do their work in such a remarkable way as to become ……続きを見る
"David Balk, who has devoted most of his professional life to teaching and especially with college students and their life journeys, offers Helping the Bereaved College Student as a major contributi……続きを見る
Cricket has an alarming suicide rate.
Among international players for England and several other countries it is far above the national average for all sports: and there have been numerous instances ……続きを見る
Debbie Purdy doesn't want to die. She has far too much to live for. But when the time comes, and the pain is so unbearable that she cannot go on, she wants her husband to be by her side, holding her……続きを見る
This massive and broad-ranging reference work alphabetically lists over 7,000 well-known people from film, theater, radio and television as well as all varieties of music, sports, history, governmen……続きを見る
"[This book] is an excellent resource for the diverse practitioners and educators who are involved in this nascent area."--Cruse Bereavement Care
"[This] book is innovative and timely, challengingth……続きを見る
"Counseling Individuals with Life-Threatening Illness provides a practical guide for counselors who work with clients and families impacted by life-threatening illness. The language and content are ……続きを見る
William Wharton turns his microscopic gaze on his own life to narrate and scrutinize the untimely deaths of his daughter and her family. A moving story of one man’s rage against death, and spiritual……続きを見る
Passed On is a portrait of death and dying in twentieth-century African America. Through poignant reflection and thorough investigation of the myths, rituals, economics, and politics of African Amer……続きを見る
Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that th……続きを見る
This incisive and luminescent story, scrupulously grounded in sixteenth-century sources, illuminates the power that "naming" has to create a world - in this case a world still haunted by being the a……続きを見る
A Dream So Big is the story of Steve Peifer, a corporate manager who once oversaw 9,000 computer software consultants, who today helps provide daily lunches for over 20,000 Kenyan school children in……続きを見る
著者:Shai J. Lavi
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2009年01月10日
How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troub……続きを見る
著者:John S. Dunne
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年05月02日
What is man, apart from the things of his life, apart from loving and fighting and dying?
In his exploration of that fundamental question, John S. Dunne considers the different ways in which man str……続きを見る
Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!
"Bushfield and DeFord offer us an excellent, informed and sensitive work that speaks both of the erosion of family systems due to addiction and the complications tha……続きを見る
From the assassination of President William McKinley on September 6, 1901, to the mass killing at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, the 20th century saw many murderous events that are difficu……続きを見る
Widow to Widow shares the experiences of widows who have found comfort and continuity in mutual-help and community support programs. In the second edition of her pioneering text, Phyllis Silverman b……続きを見る
'The sentence of this court is that you be taken from this place to whence you came, and from there to a place of lawful execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you be dead, and may the Lord ……続きを見る