Adolescent Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping

Emphasizes cultural factors that affect the adolescent coping with death. This book explores many conceptual frameworks, models, and ideas that have appeared on the scene such as: dual process model for understanding loss; ideas about assumptive worlds; and, debates about the benefit and harm of grief counseling with the normally bereaved. Capturing from the start that 'Childhood is, and always has been, a vulnerable time,' we have a rich in gathering of contributed pieces that bring us into the raw, fragile arena of children traumatized by life events and behaviors..." --Illness, Crisis, and Loss Balk and Corr again have edited a book that will set the direction of the field for yet another decade....Caregivers can count on this book...for insight and intervention." --From the Foreword by Kenneth J. Doka, PhDProfessor, The Graduate School, The College of New RochelleAuthor, Counseling Individuals With Life-Threatening Illness Over a decade has passed since the publication of Balk and Corr's groundbreaking Handbook of Adolescent Death and Bereavement. This new book, Adolescent Encounters With Death, Bereavement, and Coping, analyzes the challenges faced by adolescents coping with death, dying, and bereavement, and examines the new, unique circumstances and advances that have transpired over the last decade. These include: Grief and coping with HIV/AIDS Adolescents, humor, and death Technology and the Internet: coping with loss in the digital world Bereavement over the deaths of celebrities The book also explores critical, imaginative conceptual frameworks and models that have emerged on the scene, including: The dual process model for understanding loss Ideas about assumptive worlds Debates about the benefit and harm of grief counseling New research on recovery and resilience following bereavement Written from the interdisciplinary perspectives of expert sociologists, psychologists, educators, social workers, nurses, and anthropologists, this book offers a breadth and depth of insight into the complex nature of adolescent bereavement. Nurses, counselors, social workers, and educators will find this book to be an invaluable resource when they try to understand and help adolescents coping with death-related issues.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the greatest clinical challenges of this decade. Currently over 4 million Americans are diagnosed with AD, and scientists are warning us that tens of millions of people around the world will develop the disease over the coming decades.Obviously the disease extends beyond the patient to the patient's family. Furthermore, patients become more and more reliant on caregivers as the disease progresses and the risk of complications, from failure of basic bodily functions, to falls, to intercurrent illness rises drastically.With the vast scope of its prevalence, and the wide range of issues surrounding the disease, it is important to provide current information to a diverse group of students and clinicians, including physical and occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, nurses, social workers, assisted living facilities, and primary care physicians. It is also important to provide families with information that they can use to assist in home care and long-term care.This book provides up-to-date information about the problem of dementia in the elderly population, particularly due to AD; causes and risk factors of AD, diagnosis, and symptoms and progressions. The book places significant emphasis on rehabilitation aspects such as prevention of falls in various settings.