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Handbook of Thanatology

If ever there was an area requiring that the research-practice gap be bridged, surely it occurs where thanatologists engage with people deadling with human mortality and loss.

The field of thanatology - the study of death & dying - is a complex, multidisciplinary area that encompases the range of human experiences, emotions, expectations, and realities.

In the Handbook of Thanatology, The Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) has compiled the most authoritative volume in the field, which provides for the first time a single source of up-to-date scholarship, research, and practice implications...

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Helping Bereaved Parents: A Clinician's Guide

This book provides a concise, yet comprehensive guide to effective work with bereaved parents, combining a broad overview of current research, theory, and practice with the authors' own extensive clinical experience.

Transcripts of individual, couple, and group meetings illustrate the delicate subtleties of this work, giving the reader helpful insights into more effective clinical practice.

The authors emphasize the importance of approaching each parent as a unique person, while also considering the socio-cultural context of the bereaved.

This book helps clinicians approach work with bereaved parents with a less scripted format, suggesting an alternative role as expert companion to the bereaved, allowing for a more uplifting experience for both parties.

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Music of the Soul: Composing Life Out of Loss

Music of the Soul guides the reader through principles, techniques, and exercises for incorporating music into grief counseling, with the end goal of further empowering the grieving person.

Music has a unique ability to elicit a whole range of powerful emotional responses in people - even so for as altering or enhancing one's mood - as well as physical reactions.

This interdisciplinary text draws in equal parts from contemporary grief/loss theory, music therapy research, historical examples of powerful music, case studies, and both self-reflecting and teaching exercises.

Music is as much about beginnings as endings, and thus the book moves through life's losses into its new beginnings, using musical expression to help the bereaved find meaning in loss and hurt, and move forward with their lives.

With numerous exercises and examples for implementing the use of music in grief counseling, the book offers a practical and flexible approach to a broad spectrum of mental health practitioners, from thanatologists to hospice staff, at all levels of professional training and settings.

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New Grief and Bereavement Arena

Welcome to our new Grief and Bereavement arena - we hope you the find new features and improvements exciting and useful.

We hope you find this arena very easy to navigate around, because we know that you want to find the information you're after quickly, whether it's the 'buy now' link for a particular book, the date & venue of a forthcoming conference, or the online version of a specific academic journal article.

We've added a number of new features to address your changing demands and requirements.

We hope we've made this arena invaluable for you, and we'd encourage you to add this site to your favourites, post it to del.icio.us (if you're a del.icio.us user), blog about it (then let us know), or recommend it to your friends and colleagues.

Here's a very brief overview of some of the new features:

RSS Feeds of latest titles

We've created an RSS Feed of our newest Grief and Bereavement books so that you can subscribe to receive news of our latest titles. RSS feeds are an increasingly popular way to check for news and updates from all the websites you regularly visit without having to visit them all individually.

We've created a page to explain more about RSS, which will also help you to subscribe using a wide range of freely available RSS Feed Readers.

You can also use our RSS feed to display an automatically-updated list of our latest Grief and Bereavement titles on your blog or website (let us know if you do this because we'd be interested to see).

Conferences

We've launched our Grief and Bereavement listings with an interactive map (see screenshot, right), allowing you to see, at a glance, all of the events that are coming up near you.

You can zoom in for a closer look (close enough, in some cases, to get street directions!) and click on the map markers for conference details and a link to the conference's home page.

Grief and Bereavement-related Blog Posts, Country-specific book listings, and more

There's a wealth of other new features, including the latest Blog Posts from around the world which have been tagged as being about Grief and Bereavement, and we've also made sure that all the books you see are available in your country by automatically identifying which country you're in (on the rare occasions when we might get it wrong you can manually override it on the User Preferences page).

We're very excited about the changes we've made to this arena, and as we mentioned earlier, we'll be updating all of our arenas over the coming months. But we don't want to rest on our laurels, so we'll be looking for new ways to improve the arenas and new features to offer you.

If you have any suggestions or comments then please don't hesitate to let us know.