Death 101: Educating and Healing
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Human beings experience many losses in a lifetime, but the death of a loved one is among the most traumatic. While grieving is a natural part of life, it still challenges our ... Rev. Dr. Richard B. Gilbert, BCC, Resources Hotline - Publisher %>"It is packed. The advice is practical and doable. For all of us who are already too busy, it is a place to jump in and out as specific needs, questions and challenges arise. It is exhaustive in its resources and resource information. There are tasks, activities, quizzes, resources, ideas and thoughts ... with so much more ... to place before the griever either as friend, as counselor, or in the group setting. It comforts, teaches and facilitates. It serves well. I have already freely used its many contributions, and you will do the same. There is a helpful concluding addendum that adds to our day and time, Death and Terrorism."
Introduction PART ONE-PRIMER ON DEATH Chapter 1 Death Education Chapter 2 Attitudes Toward Dying and Death Chapter 3 Cultural Farewells Chapter 4 Death in the Health Care System Chapter 5 Death in the Family System Chapter 6 The Dying Process Chapter 7 The Caregiver and the Volunteer Chapter 8 The Grieving Process Chapter 9 Compassionate Therapies Chapter 10 Death Preparation Chapter 11 Medical Ethics and Legal Issues Chapter 12 Causes of Death Chapter 13 After Death PART TWO-THE END Sources of Support Organizations Toll-Free Telephone Information Directory-Quick Index World Wide Web Sites Journals, Magazines, and Newsletters Films and Audio-Visuals Suggested Readings Bibliography Glossary Answer Key Addendum-Death by Terrorism Index Notes
\ Reviewer: Becky Stepp, BBA, MEd, BS, M, LMSW(Seton Medical Center)\ Description: This workbook-style text about the dying process is a personal guide for one's own journey through grief. It provides an understanding of dying, death, and bereavement that helps individuals better cope with and understand their own death and the death of others.\ Purpose: The author's purpose is to help educate the audience in the various aspects of death and dying. The text accomplishes this noble goal through the systematic introduction of the dying process, grief work, and ethical and legal issues, while providing personal experiences among various cultures. This is a welcome supplement to textbooks on the dying process as it enhances the academic material through the use of personal stories, stimulating activities, and therapeutic exercises. It intends to increase knowledge about death education by providing a personalized guide for the journey through the grief process. \ Audience: The termination of life is a complex experience for family, friends, caregivers, and helping professionals, with differing meanings for each. This book provides a practical and personal guide for this journey through grief that is helpful for all by providing a personal understanding of dying, death, and bereavement. This workbook is intended for volunteers, nurses, physicians, social workers, clergy, counselors, students, caregivers, and those who are struggling with the grief process. As a Certified Death Educator and Grief Counselor in private practice, the author is a credible authority who expresses a personal journey, encourages with hope, and motivates readers to participate in their own healing. \ Features: This is a comprehensive workbook of thanatology, the interdisciplinary study of dying and death. It presents the various aspects of death and dying from the perspective of education, multicultural attitudes, research, and the legal, moral, and ethical issues concerning death. This is an excellent "hands-on" workbook and serves as a journal for a personal guide and journey through the grief process. The personal stories, along with the stimulating activities and exercises, are both meaningful and thought provoking. A vast array of resource material is provided along with a glossary. While the brightly colored cover and bold, black print title may be slightly offsetting at first glance, they are a good attempt to desensitize and neutralize an otherwise emotionally charged and reverent subject matter. \ Assessment: The author presents the opportunity for a personal examination of cultural attitudes and assumptions about dying and death. Therapeutic exercises, stories, poems, and comments from others who have traveled through the grieving process help readers develop coping strategies to effectively deal with grief. This book adds greatly to the body of knowledge on dying and death education and can be of enormous practical value to grievers as well as educators and caregivers.\ \ \ \ \ Publisher%>"It is packed. The advice is practical and doable. For all of us who are already too busy, it is a place to jump in and out as specific needs, questions and challenges arise. It is exhaustive in its resources and resource information. There are tasks, activities, quizzes, resources, ideas and thoughts ... with so much more ... to place before the griever either as friend, as counselor, or in the group setting. It comforts, teaches and facilitates. It serves well. I have already freely used its many contributions, and you will do the same. There is a helpful concluding addendum that adds to our day and time, Death and Terrorism." \ — Rev. Dr. Richard B. Gilbert, BCC, Resources Hotline\ \ \ BooknewsMeant as a supplement to textbooks about death and dying for students of professions that deal with death, this text presents 167 activities designed to help students think about the myriad emotional issues surrounding death. Additional appendices list electronic, print, and organizational resources related to the topic. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR\ \ \ \ \ 3 Stars from Doody\ \
