Bui E. (Ed.) Clinical Handbook of Bereavement and Grief Reactions

Humana Press, Springer Science+Business Media LLC, 2018. — 342 p. — (Current Clinical Psychiatry) — ISBN10: 3319652400.The text is designed to present a state-of the-art approach to the assessment and management of bereavement-related psychopathology. Written by experts in the field, book addresses the elevated urgency of bereavement from its former classification as an area for more research to its current DSM-5 status as a major depressive disorder, calling for greater recognition of bereavement-related psychopathology. The text introduces and reviews the theoretical background underlying bereavement-related psychopathology, addresses the issues faced by clinicians who assess bereaved individuals in different specific contexts, and reviews the management and different treatment approaches for individuals with grief reactions that include both medicated and non-medicated approaches.Clinical Handbook of Bereavement and Grief Reactions is a valuable resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, students, counselors, psychiatric nurses, social workers, and all medical professionals working with patients struggling with bereavement and grief reactions.Grief Reactions: A Sociocultural Approach
Grief and Post-Traumatic Stress Following Bereavement
Grief Reactions: A Neurobiological Approach
Grief Reactions in Children and Adolescents
Grief: From Normal to Pathological Reactions
Grief Reactions in the Elderly
Grief Reactions in the Suicide Bereaved
Finding Meaning in Loss: A Narrative Constructivist Contribution
Helping Grieving Children and Adolescents
Supporting Grieving Students in the Aftermath of a School Crisis
Hospice Services and Grief Support Groups.
Two Psychosocial Interventions for Complicated Grief: Review of Principles and Evidence Base
Pharmacotherapy of Pathological Grief Responses
Grief Reactions in Diagnostic Classifications of Mental Disorders