"Aspects of Grief" provides a comprehensive study of adult bereavement and the grieving process. Beginning with a consideration of western attitudes to death and the dying it shows how such attitudes inevitably affect the experience of bereavement. The importance of death-related rituals and the decline in funeral rites is examined. The experiences associated with bereavement and the complications which may arise are explored and there are two chapters on the importance of social support in terms of bereavement outcome. The book also focuses on specific circumstances surrounding deaths, the various facets of adult relationships, and how both can be associated with complicated and uncomplicated grief. These issues are addressed in conjunction with a consideration of the deaths of parents, partners and children. This book should be of interest to professionals and students of clinical psychology, psychiatry, social work and sociology.
- ISBN10 0415028167
- ISBN13 9780415028165
- Publish Date 6 February 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 November 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English