1. Coping with Loss: The Context and the Response -- 2. Griefs of Children -- 3. The Griefs of Adulthood and Old Age -- 4. The Interweaving of Loss of Role, Status, Expectation -- 5. Loss of Material Possessions and Spiritual Pain: The Paradox -- 6. Handicap and Frailty, Grief and Powerlessness -- 7. Cultural Aspects of Loss: Migrants and Refugees -- 8. The Grief of being HIV Positive and of AIDS -- 9. The Grief, Anger and Powerlessness of Suicide -- 10. Volunteering, Neighbourliness and Helping -- 11. Facilitating Change in Blocked Grief -- 12. Music Therapy for Blocked Grief -- 13. The Challenges and Griefs of the Helper -- 14. Summary
Notes
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-196) and indexes