Grief, Loss and Bereavement: Evidence and Practice for Health and Social Care Practitioners

ISBN-13: 9780415467506 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str.

Peter Wimpenny

Opis

Dealing with the social experience of grief, loss and bereavement are challenging areas for everyone, including health and social care practitioners who are often well placed to offer help and support to the bereaved. This book draws together a comprehensive range of worldwide evidence for understanding and supporting the bereaved in a variety of health and social care contexts. It can be used by practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds in both health and social care to gain an appreciation of bereavement and its associated support and care. Additionally, it can be used for personal and professional development by practitioners who want to enhance their own and others' practice with the bereaved in specific contexts or organisations. The book may also be of value to those undertaking post graduate study who want to gain a wider understanding of the evidence related to bereavement and bereavement care practice in health and social care and may be seeking to add to the body of evidence in this field. 　

Bereavement is a challenging area for everyone, including health and social care practitioners who are often well placed to offer help and support to the bereaved. This invaluable text draws together a comprehensive evidence-base for supporting grieving people from a wide range of research, and applies it to a health and social care context.

Accessible and practical throughout, each chapter identifies key recommendations from the research and includes thinking points to help the reader apply them to practice. An overview chapter examines theoretical perspectives and defines key concepts, such as grief, loss, bereavement, mourning and bereavement care. Part one explores bereavement across the lifespan, from childhood to older people. Part two looks at different interventions and care settings.

Grief, Loss and Bereavement Care is suitable for students and professionals in health and social care who want to gain an understanding of bereavement and bereavement care.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Bereavement in Children and Young People  3. Parental and Family Bereavement  4. Bereavement and Older People  5. End-of-life Care and Bereavement  6. Mental Health, Trauma and Bereavement  7. Bereavement and Primary Care  8. Acute Care and Bereavement  9. Children’s Deaths and Bereavement  10. Perinatal Bereavement  11. Older people and Bereavement  12. Learning Disability and Bereavement  13. HIV, AIDS and Bereavement  14. Occupational Health and Bereavement  15. Professional Development for Health and Social Care Practitioners  16. Interventions, Organisation of Care and Support for the Bereaved

O autorze

Peter Wimpenny is a lecturer at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. He is a member of the National Framework Group for Bereavement Care in Scotland. He has also been active in evidence informed practice through the Joanna Briggs Institute and SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network).
John Costello is an experienced teacher. He has published extensively on topics related to his research on the social experience of death and dying as well as in areas related to teaching and learning. John is a counsellor and an educational consultant to the Chernobyl Children's Project (CCP), a UK charity focused on promoting palliative care in Belarus and other areas of Eastern Europe.