Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan: A Biopsychosocial Perspective - Paperback
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The third edition of this unrivaled text on loss, grief, and bereavement continues to provide a unique biopsychosocial perspective and developmental framework for understanding grieving patterns. Organized by a lifespan trajectory, this text describes developmental aspects of grieving, linking these theories to effective clinical work. Biopsychosocial developmental theories, including neurobiological and genetic information, frame chapters that include recent research on how people of that age respond to varied loss situations, and intervention strategies supported by practice experience and empirical evidence are addressed.
The new edition illuminates special considerations in risk and resilience for each life phase, systematically addressing issues of oppression, marginalization, and health disparities. It includes a new chapter on grief and loss as they effect individuals over 85 and covers spiritual development for each life phase. The book restructures the adult chapters to reflect major changes in theories on expanded lifespans, adds to content on evolving living arrangements for aging individuals, and expands coverage of common losses at different points in the lifespan. This new edition includes material on ageism and its impact on health and also examines the challenges faced by older adults in the LGBT community. Additionally, the third edition explicitly incorporates the rapidly evolving science of Adverse Childhood Experiences, addressing how ACEs intersect with grief and loss. Vignettes and case studies are incorporated into each life-phase chapter, illuminating the lived experience of grief. Thought-provoking discussion questions, chapter objectives, and additional resources for both students and instructors reinforce critical thinking and an Instructor's Manual, Casebook (of prior chapter readings), and PowerPoint slides are available for download. A free eBook is included with every text purchase.
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New to the Third Edition:
- Adds Special Considerations in Risk and Resilience to every chapter
- Incorporates Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) and their effects at various life stages
- Focus on neurobiological and genomic aspects of health
- Includes a new chapter on the Fourth Age - from 85 up
- Discusses spiritual development for each life phase
- Incorporates new case studies
- Restructures adult chapters to reflect major new theories about expanded lifespans
- Welcomes a new author who adds content on the third and fourth ages of older adulthood, ageism, and the experience of aging in LGBT communities
- Expands content on areas of marginalization - race, gender, financial resources, educational disparities, and more
- Expands content on evolving living arrangements for older adults
- Expands information on typical losses at different life stages
- Delivers expanded web materials including a casebook of prior readings from earlier editions, in addition to PowerPoint slides and class plans and activities in the Instructor Manual
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Key Features:
- Provides a complete overview of classic and current grief theories
- Delivers a standardized developmental approach to each age group for consistency
- Presents practical intervention strategies for different life stages
- Includes chapter objectives, vignettes, case studies, and narratives to illustrate specific forms of loss
- Delivers abundant instructor resources including instructor's guide with sample syllabus and exercises, PowerPoints, class activities, and suggested resources
Judith L. M. McCoyd, PhD, LCSW, QCSW, is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University--School of Social Work, teaching in the MSW advanced clinical curriculum and working with both the PhD in Social Work and DSW doctoral programs. Before academia, she worked in perinatal, emergency room, and oncology settings and she continues to maintain a small private practice with perinatal and end-of-life care as specialties. She is coauthor of Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan: A Biopsychosocial Perspective (all three editions) and coeditor (with Toba S. Kerson) of Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context (3rd & 4th eds.--2010, 2016). She presents at national and international conferences such as Council on Social Work Education, National Association of Perinatal Social Work, and the Society for Social Work and Research, and has journal publications about perinatal complications and loss, genetic testing and decision making, technology and health care, societal aspects of bereavement, and social work education. Her current research explores how perinatal technologies affect the experience of childbearing and bereavement.
Koller, Jeanne: - Jeanne M. Koller, PhD, MSW, LCSW, is an Assistant Professor at Monmouth University School of Social Work, primarily teaching in the graduate clinical curriculum. She previously was on faculty at the Rutgers School of Social Work. At Rutgers she served as Coordinator for the MSW Aging & Health Certificate. Over the years Dr. Koller taught courses related to aging and health, MSW foundation level courses, and undergraduate level courses. In addition to her work in academia, Koller had over 26 years of clinical social work practice experience specializing in grief and loss, depression, relational issues, aging, and issues related to the LGBT+ community. Dr. Koller is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey (VNACJ) Community Health Centers; the coordinator for the NJ Radical Age Chapter; the Co-Chair for the Monmouth/Ocean NASW Unit; and is on the Executive Committee of Garden State Equality's "Elders for Equality." Dr. Koller also serves on the American Society on Aging's Editorial Board for the LGBT Aging Issues Network (LAIN) and regularly serves as an Abstract Reviewer for The Gerontological Society of America. She is an active presenter on issues pertaining to work with LGBT+ families, aging and the LGBT+ community, and ageism.Edition
3rd Edition
Contributor(s)
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Note to Readers: Publisher does not guarantee quality or access to any included digital components if book is purchased through a third-party seller.
The third edition of this unrivaled text on loss, grief, and bereavement continues to provide a unique biopsychosocial perspective and developmental framework for understanding grieving patterns. Organized by a lifespan trajectory, this text describes developmental aspects of grieving, linking these theories to effective clinical work. Biopsychosocial developmental theories, including neurobiological and genetic information, frame chapters that include recent research on how people of that age respond to varied loss situations, and intervention strategies supported by practice experience and empirical evidence are addressed.
The new edition illuminates special considerations in risk and resilience for each life phase, systematically addressing issues of oppression, marginalization, and health disparities. It includes a new chapter on grief and loss as they effect individuals over 85 and covers spiritual development for each life phase. The book restructures the adult chapters to reflect major changes in theories on expanded lifespans, adds to content on evolving living arrangements for aging individuals, and expands coverage of common losses at different points in the lifespan. This new edition includes material on ageism and its impact on health and also examines the challenges faced by older adults in the LGBT community. Additionally, the third edition explicitly incorporates the rapidly evolving science of Adverse Childhood Experiences, addressing how ACEs intersect with grief and loss. Vignettes and case studies are incorporated into each life-phase chapter, illuminating the lived experience of grief. Thought-provoking discussion questions, chapter objectives, and additional resources for both students and instructors reinforce critical thinking and an Instructor's Manual, Casebook (of prior chapter readings), and PowerPoint slides are available for download. A free eBook is included with every text purchase.
-
New to the Third Edition:
- Adds Special Considerations in Risk and Resilience to every chapter
- Incorporates Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) and their effects at various life stages
- Focus on neurobiological and genomic aspects of health
- Includes a new chapter on the Fourth Age - from 85 up
- Discusses spiritual development for each life phase
- Incorporates new case studies
- Restructures adult chapters to reflect major new theories about expanded lifespans
- Welcomes a new author who adds content on the third and fourth ages of older adulthood, ageism, and the experience of aging in LGBT communities
- Expands content on areas of marginalization - race, gender, financial resources, educational disparities, and more
- Expands content on evolving living arrangements for older adults
- Expands information on typical losses at different life stages
- Delivers expanded web materials including a casebook of prior readings from earlier editions, in addition to PowerPoint slides and class plans and activities in the Instructor Manual
-
Key Features:
- Provides a complete overview of classic and current grief theories
- Delivers a standardized developmental approach to each age group for consistency
- Presents practical intervention strategies for different life stages
- Includes chapter objectives, vignettes, case studies, and narratives to illustrate specific forms of loss
- Delivers abundant instructor resources including instructor's guide with sample syllabus and exercises, PowerPoints, class activities, and suggested resources
Judith L. M. McCoyd, PhD, LCSW, QCSW, is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University--School of Social Work, teaching in the MSW advanced clinical curriculum and working with both the PhD in Social Work and DSW doctoral programs. Before academia, she worked in perinatal, emergency room, and oncology settings and she continues to maintain a small private practice with perinatal and end-of-life care as specialties. She is coauthor of Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan: A Biopsychosocial Perspective (all three editions) and coeditor (with Toba S. Kerson) of Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context (3rd & 4th eds.--2010, 2016). She presents at national and international conferences such as Council on Social Work Education, National Association of Perinatal Social Work, and the Society for Social Work and Research, and has journal publications about perinatal complications and loss, genetic testing and decision making, technology and health care, societal aspects of bereavement, and social work education. Her current research explores how perinatal technologies affect the experience of childbearing and bereavement.
Koller, Jeanne: - Jeanne M. Koller, PhD, MSW, LCSW, is an Assistant Professor at Monmouth University School of Social Work, primarily teaching in the graduate clinical curriculum. She previously was on faculty at the Rutgers School of Social Work. At Rutgers she served as Coordinator for the MSW Aging & Health Certificate. Over the years Dr. Koller taught courses related to aging and health, MSW foundation level courses, and undergraduate level courses. In addition to her work in academia, Koller had over 26 years of clinical social work practice experience specializing in grief and loss, depression, relational issues, aging, and issues related to the LGBT+ community. Dr. Koller is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey (VNACJ) Community Health Centers; the coordinator for the NJ Radical Age Chapter; the Co-Chair for the Monmouth/Ocean NASW Unit; and is on the Executive Committee of Garden State Equality's "Elders for Equality." Dr. Koller also serves on the American Society on Aging's Editorial Board for the LGBT Aging Issues Network (LAIN) and regularly serves as an Abstract Reviewer for The Gerontological Society of America. She is an active presenter on issues pertaining to work with LGBT+ families, aging and the LGBT+ community, and ageism.Edition
3rd Edition
Contributor(s)