Many Faces Of Bereavement

First published in 1995. Death and dying have been a concern of mankind as long as humans have existed. This book will explore the development and specifications of traditional models of grief to underline the importance of what is known about the process of grief considering variables such as relationship age and personal characteristics of the mourner as well as providing a framework of symptomatology specific to non-traumatizing non-stigmatizing deaths for the purposes of comparative and theoretical specification. It is proposed that what is known about the grief response following the death of a spouse a child or an aged parent has valuable implications for grief model development considering other modes of death such as murder drunk driving AIDS critical incidents and suicide though these conceptualizations are insufficient in explaining or predicting outcomes with these other types of grief.