Understanding Loss

A Guide for Caring for Those Facing Adversity

Judith Murray (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

238 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-82946-6 (ISBN)

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This book develops a new overarching framework to understand loss and grief, taking into account both pathological and wellbeing approaches to the subject. It highlights four common themes of loss, which are then used to develop a practice framework for structuring assessment and intervention systematically.

Loss and consequent grief permeates nearly every life changing event, from death to health concerns to dislocation to relationship breakdown to betrayal to natural disaster to faith issues. Yet, while we know about particular events of loss independently, we know very little about a psychology of loss that draws many adversities together. This universal experience of loss as a concept in its own right sheds light on so much of the work we do in the care of others. This book develops a new overarching framework to understand loss and grief, taking into account both pathological and wellbeing approaches to the subject.

Drawing on international and cross-disciplinary research, Judith Murray highlights nine common themes of loss, helping us to understand how it is experienced. These themes are then used to develop a practice framework for structuring assessment and intervention systematically. Throughout the book, this generic approach is highlighted through discussing its use in different loss events such as bereavement, trauma, chronic illness and with children or older people. Having been used in areas as diverse as child protection, palliative care and refugee care, the framework can be tailored to a range of needs and levels of care.

Caring for people experiencing loss is an integral part of the work of helping professions, whether it is explicitly part of their work such as in counselling, or implicit as in social work, nursing, teaching, medicine and community work. This text is an important guide for anyone working in these areas.

Judith Murray has a joint appointment as Associate Professor in Counselling and Counselling Psychology in the School of Psychology and the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, The University of Queensland, Australia. She also holds a part-time position as a Registered Nurse in Haematology and Oncology at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia.

Part 1: Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Respect Part 2: Understanding 3. Grief and Grieving 4. Making the Picture of Grieving Three Dimensional 5. Loss Amongst Loss 6. The Integration of Loss 7. The Individuality of Loss 8. Taking our Knowledge into Practice Part 3: Enablement: Taking Our Understanding into Practice 9. Moving into Practice: Safety is the Key 10. Let's Move on to Enablement 11. Thinking More Formally About Care: Principles to Guide Care 12. Thinking about Enablement Using the Ten Questions of Loss Framework

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.9.2015
Zusatzinfo	18 Tables, black and white; 14 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	422 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-82946-3 / 1138829463
ISBN-13	978-1-138-82946-6 / 9781138829466
Zustand	Neuware