Responding to Grief

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Dying, Bereavement and Social Care	p. 1
Dying, Bereavement and Social Care: An Ambiguous Relationship	p. 2
Aims, Approach, Sources and Structure	p. 7
Social Care	p. 11
Care and Cares: Some Definitions	p. 11
Structure of Services	p. 15
Essential Feature of Social Care	p. 17
The Social Context of Social Care: Current Issues and Trends	p. 19
Understanding Death and Dying	p. 22
The Relevance for Practice of Theoretical Understandings	p. 22
Defining Death: Biological and Social Death	p. 24
The Demography of Death	p. 27
Changed Social Understandings of Death	p. 29
Rites of Passage	p. 31
Dying: Introduction	p. 32
Who is Dying?	p. 33
What is Dying?	p. 37
Facing Death: Psychological Perspectives	p. 38
Facing Death	p. 43
Managing the Present	p. 44
Abandoning the Future	p. 47
Separation, Loneliness and the Social Bond	p. 51
Some Reflections upon Theory	p. 54
Care Workers' Involvement with Those Facing Their Own Death	p. 58
Social Care with People Facing Death: A Broad Spectrum	p. 59
The Social Care Response	p. 77
Issues of Training and Support	p. 86
Conclusion: Social Care with People who are Dying	p. 88
Understanding Grief and Bereavement	p. 90
Defining Key Terms	p. 91
The Grieving Process and the Grief Work Hypothesis	p. 94
Theoretical Developments and Debate	p. 101
A Child's Grief	p. 107
Consequences of Grief	p. 110
Conclusion: Understanding Grief	p. 111
Experiencing Bereavement	p. 113
Individual Aspects of the Experience of Grief	p. 115
Social Aspects of the Grieving Experience	p. 118
Responding to Grief: The What and Who of Receiving Help	p. 120
Care Workers' Involvement with Those Who are Bereaved	p. 124
Bereavement: A Significant Feature in All Areas of Social Care	p. 126
The Social Care Response	p. 140
Issues of Training and Support	p. 149
Responding to Grief: Conclusions for Social Care	p. 155
Why Should Social Care Workers be Involved with Those Who are Dying or Bereaved?	p. 156
What Can Social Care Workers Do?	p. 156
What Do We Need if We are to Do this Well?	p. 157
How is this Particular to Social Care?	p. 157
Organisations	p. 159
Bibliography	p. 160
Index	p. 173
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