This book is a research-based text and emphasizes cultural factors that often significantly affect the adolescent coping with death. It provides considerable focus in each chapter on peer-reviewed research dealing with the various topics. Balk and Corr explore the numerous conceptual frameworks, models, and ideas that have appeared on the scene within the past years: dual process model for understanding loss; ideas about assumptive worlds; debates about the benefit and harm of grief counseling with the normally bereaved; efforts to bridge the gap separating researchers and practitioners; and, stimulating essays about recovery and resilience following bereavement.

About the Author

David E. Balk, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York where he directs Graduate Studies in Thanatology. He is an Associate Editor of Death Studies, and serves as that journal's Book Review Editor. Dr. Balk is a member of ADEC and The International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement.

Book Information
ISBN 9780826110732
Author David E. Balk
Format Hardback
Imprint Springer Publishing Co Inc
Publisher Springer Publishing Co Inc
Weight(grams) 674g