Living Through Loss

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Interventions Across the Life Span

By Nancy R. Hooyman and Betty J. Kramer

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Living Through Loss explores the various forms and experiences of loss across the lifespan, from bereavement to chronic illness and trauma. The authors adopt a resilience-based approach, recognising individuals' ability to integrate loss into their lives. They sensitively consider factors such as age, race, culture, sexual orientation, gender, and spirituality, drawing on both clients' stories and their own experiences to create a profound and insightful guide.
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This book is ideal for educators, healthcare professionals, counsellors, and anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of loss and resilience across diverse life circumstances.

Identifies the various ways in which people experience loss over the course of life and discusses the interventions effective at each stage of life.

"An exquisitely written, well researched, compassionate, and definitive book on loss and grief for social workers and other practitioners. Hooyman and Kramer share their own poignant stories, reaching down to the deepest level of experience and loss, that serve to illustrate issues faced by bereaved individuals. The book is unique in its lifespan approach to common losses, its integration of the diversity of the human experience, and its focus on recent evidence-based interventions. The section on professional self-awareness and self-care offers concrete strategies for the prevention of some of the challenges in working with the bereaved. All professionals -- and I suspect others as well -- will benefit from this major achievement." -- Colette V. Browne, University of Hawaii, School of Social Work

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Living Through Loss is the first book to identify the many ways in which people experience loss over the course of life and to discuss the interventions most effective at each stage of life. The authors' starting point is that loss comes in many forms and can include not only suffering the death of a person one loves but also giving birth to a child with disabilities, living with chronic illness, or being abused, assaulted, or otherwise traumatized.

They approach loss from the perspective of the resilience model, which acknowledges the capacity of people to integrate loss into their lives, and write sensitively about the role of age, race, culture, sexual orientation, gender, and spirituality in a person's response to loss. More than a comprehensive source on loss, the volume is distinguished by the authors' beautiful use of clients' experiences—and their own—thus making their book definitive and indelible.

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Roger Woodruff, Director of Palliative Care at Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia, praises it as: "a mine of information" offering substantial reflection. He highly recommends the book for its depth and thoughtful approach.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780231122474

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 March 2008

Country: United States

Imprint: Columbia University Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 480

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Betty J. Kramer Education & Reference Grief & Loss Health & Wellness Nancy R. Hooyman Non-Fiction Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Nancy R. Hooyman is the Hooyman Endowed Professor and dean emerita at the University of Washington, School of Social Work. In addition to numerous awards and fellowships, she is the author of eight books and more than one hundred articles. Betty J. Kramer is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Social Work. She is a nationally recognized social work leader in the field of palliative and end-of-life care, the recipient of numerous awards and honors, and the coeditor of Men as Caregivers: Theory, Research, and Service Implications.