Handbook of Traumatic Loss

<p>The <i>Handbook of Traumatic Loss</i> adopts a broad, holistic approach that recognizes traumatic loss much more fully as a multidimensional human<i> </i>phenomenon, not simply a medical condition. Initial chapters build a foundation for understanding traumatic loss and explore the many ways we respond to trauma. Later chapters counterbalance the individualistic focus of dominant approaches to traumatic loss by highlighting a number of thought-provoking social<i> </i>dimensions of traumatic loss. Each chapter emphasizes different aspects of traumatic loss and argues for ways in which clinicians can help deal with its many and varied impacts. </p> <p>List of Figures Editors and Contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Introduction <strong>Part One: Making Sense of Traumatic Loss </strong>Introduction 1. Traumatic Loss: An Existentialist Perspective <i>Neil Thompson </i>2. Spirituality and Traumatic Loss: Pathways to Healing through Spiritual Classics and Focusing <em>Kimberly L. Sangster </em><i>and Aoife C. Lee </i>3. Assisted Death and Suicide: Comparing Grief Reactions<b> </b><i>Erica G. Srinivasan </i>4. Traumatic Grief, Crisis, and Attachment Patterns, <i>Susan Adams </i>5.Exploding Houses, Wild Animals, and Spiders: Dreams and Nightmares Following Sudden or Traumatic Death <i>Janet Buntrock </i>6. Responding to Childhood Trauma <i>Mary Walsh and Neil Thompson </i>7. Old Age and Assaults on the Self: A Disenfranchised Form of Trauma? <i>Sue Thompson </i>8. Understanding and Managing Youth and Elderly Suicide in Developed East Asia: The Imperative of Compassion in Public Health <i>Andy H. Y. Ho, Cheryl H. K. Chui and Monica Borshel </i><strong>Part Two: Responding to Traumatic Loss </strong>Introduction 9. Coping with the Aftermath of Trauma and Loss <em>Rob Stevenson</em> 10. Compassionate Death Telling in Sudden and Traumatic Deaths <i>Dan Festa </i>11. Using Art to Aid Trauma Recovery <i>Sandra Bertman </i>12. How to Say "It" When No One Can: Death Notification & Children, Teens, and Adults: Grief After Sudden or Traumatic Death <i>Michelle Post </i>13. Family Therapy and Traumatic Losses<b> </b><em>Stephanie Rabenstein and </em><em>Darcy Harris</em> 14. Miming in the Choir: The Impact of Traumatic Loss and Lessons for Caregivers <em>I</em><i>rene Renzenbrink<b> </b></i>15. The Impact of Trauma Work on Professional Staff: The Omagh Bomb <i>Paula McFadden </i>16. Closure for the 96? Sudden Death, Traumatic Grief and the New Hillsborough Inquests <i>Mike Brennan </i><strong>Part Three: Societal Issues and Responses </strong>Introduction 17. Theorizing Trauma: A New and Critical Understanding <em>Jason Powell and Paul Taylor </em>18. A Critical Look at Trauma and its Treatment <em>Darcy Harris and Rebecca Machado</em> 19. Pouring Salt in an Open Grief: The Traumatizing Antics of the Westboro Baptist Church, <em>Harold Ivan Smith </em>20. Family Response to Traumatic Loss <i>Paul C. Rosenblatt </i>21. The Thing that Happened: Hope and Healing at Hope North Uganda <i>Janet McCord </i>22. Losing inhibitions? Young Women, Alcohol, and Loss in the Nighttime Economy <i>Melissa Stepney and Paul Stepney </i>23. Trauma and the American Indian Societies <i>Gerry Cox </i>24. Disenfranchised Grief and Trauma <i>Kenneth J. Doka </i>Conclusion Afterword Index</p>