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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.Description: x, 181 pages ; 22 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 0333736397
  • 9780333736395
  • 9780333736395:
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.175
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

[Part 1: Introduction: Dying, Bereavement and Social Care] Dying, Bereavement and Social Care: An Ambiguous Relationship -- Aims, Approach, Sources and Structure.

[Part 2: Social Care] Care and Carers: Some Definitions -- Structure of Services -- Essential Feature of Social Care -- The Social Context of Social Care: Current Issues and Trends.

[Part 3: Understanding Death and Dying] The Relevance for Practice of Theoretical Understandings -- Defining Death: Biological and Social Death -- The Demography of Death -- Changed Social Understandings of Death -- Rites of Passage -- Dying: Introduction -- Who is Dying? -- What is Dying? -- Facing Death: Psychological Perspectives.

[Part 4: Facing Death] Managing the Present -- Abandoning the Future -- Separation, Loneliness and the Social Bond -- Some Reflections upon Theory.

[Part 5: Care Workers' Involvement with Those Facing Their Own Death] Social Care with People Facing Death: A Broad Spectrum -- The Social Care Response -- Issues of Training and Support -- Conclusion: Social Care with People who are Dying.

[Part 6: Understanding Grief and Bereavement] Defining Key Terms -- The Grieving Process and the Grief Work Hypothesis -- Theoretical Developments and Debate -- A Child's Grief -- Consequences of Grief -- Conclusion: Understanding.

[Part 7: Experiencing Bereavement] Individual Aspects of the Experience of Grief -- Social Aspects of the Grieving Experience -- Responding to Grief: The What and Who of Receiving Help.

[Part 8: Care Workers' Involvement with Those Who are Bereaved] Bereavement: A Significant Feature in All Areas of Social Care -- The Social Care Response -- Issues of Training and Support.

[Part 9: Responding to Grief: Conclusions for Social Care] Why Should Social Care Workers be Involved with Those Who are Dying or Bereaved? -- What Can Social Care Workers Do? -- What Do We Need if We are to Do this Well? -- How is this Particular to Social Care?

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