Violent Death: Resilience and Intervention Beyond the Crisis

by Rynearson; Edward K.

• ISBN13: 9780415953238
• ISBN10: 0415953235
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book pulls together a definitive collection of work on the theory and practice of clinical, spiritual, and emotional support after the experience of violent death - counseling beyond the crisis. Over the past decade, there have been countless publications devoted to crisis response, crisis intervention and counseling, disaster mental health services, and support for victims of traumatic events, but almost none devoted to the response planning and community care for those individuals to continue to struggle with trauma and grief issues for more than a few months after a violent death. The chapters in this volume, written by national and international experts in the field, will provide the reader with the theoretical and clinical bases necessary for planning and implementing clinical and spiritual services to meet the needs of survivors/witnesses/family and community members of violent death.

Table of Contents

About the Editor	ix
Contributors	xi
Series Editor's Foreword	xxi
Introduction	xxiii
Editor's Note: Suggestions for Utilizing the Companion DVD	xxxiii
PART I RESTORATIVE AND CLINICAL ESSENTIALS
Clinical Theories of Loss and Grief	3	(28)
Beverley Raphael
Garry Stevens
Julie Dunsmore
Grief, Trauma, and Resilience	31	(16)
George A. Bonanno
Family Resilience After Violent Death	47	(18)
Alison Salloum
Edward K. Rynearson
Spiritual Essentials	65	(20)
Janice Harris Lord
Fragmented Stories: The Narrative Integration of Violent Loss	85	(16)
Joseph M. Currier
Robert A. Neimeyer
Meaning Making for Survivors of Violent Death	101	(22)
Marilyn Peterson Armour
Considering Medication Use in the Wake of Traumatic Experience: Neurobiology, Affect Dysregulation, and the Psychiatrist as a Witness Who May Also Prescribe	123	(22)
Richard A. Chefetz
PART II RESTORATIVE AND CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS
Exorcising Ghosts: The Counting Method and Traumatic Death Imagery	145	(12)
Frank M. Ochberg
Treatment of Complicated Grief Following Violent Death	157	(18)
Katherine Shear
Bonnie Gorscak
Naomi Simon
Evidence-Based Interventions for Parents Following Their Children's Violent Deaths	175	(20)
Shirley A. Murphy
Restorative Retelling After Violent Dying	195	(22)
Edward K. Rynearson
Fanny Correa
Jennifer Favell
Connie Saindon
Holly Prigerson
Intervention Continuity in Posttraffic Fatality: From Notifying Families of the Loss to Establishing a Self-Help Group	217	(16)
Ruth Malkinson
Yael Geron
What about the Very Young Child?	233	(22)
Sharon Gancarz Davies
Alison Salloum
Treating Childhood Traumatic Grief	255	(20)
Judith A. Cohen
Anthony P. Mannarino
Restorative Retelling with Incarcerated Juveniles	275	(20)
Edward K. Rynearson
Jennifer Favell
Vicki Belluomini
Richard Gold
Holly Prigerson
PART III COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND INTERVENTION AFTER DISASTER AND WARFARE
Mass Violent Death and Military Communities: Domains of Response in Military Operations, Disaster, and Terrorism	295	(16)
David M. Benedek
Robert J. Ursano
Community Outreach Following a Terrorist Act: Violent Death and the Oklahoma City Experience	311	(24)
James R. Allen
Phebe Tucker
Betty Pfefferbaum
Healing After September 11: Short-Term Group Intervention with 9/11 Families	335	(22)
Priya J. Shahani
Heather M. Trish
Group Therapy for Palestinian Family Members After Violent Death	357	(14)
Khader Rasras
Suad Mitwalli
Mahmud Sehwail
Closing Thoughts	371	(8)
Edward K. Rynearson
Index	379