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Living with Grief

Coping with Public Tragedy

• Edited by Marcia Lattanzi-Licht, Kenneth Doka

• Price: $26.95
• Binding: Paperback
• Pages: 336
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 28th March 2003
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94601-8

About the Book

Developed in conjunction with the Hospice Foundation of America's 10th annual tele-conference, Living with Grief: Coping with Public Tragedy examines our varied responses to public tragedy, techniques available to cope with these events, and the role of the hospice in public tragedies. The essays included look at factors that define a public tragedy and offer insight and advice to professionals as they help those coping with loss. Case examples include Sherry Schachter's experience at Ground Zero, a consideration of the devastation in Florida caused by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Jack D. Gordon

I. Dimensions of a Public Tragedy
1. What Makes a Tragedy Public? - Kenneth J. Doka
2. 9/11: A Grief Therapist's Journal - Sherry R. Schachter
3. Hurricane Andrew - Rick Eyerdam
4. Looking Back at Columbine - Larry Beresford
5. When a Public Figure Dies - William M. Lamers

II. Responses to Public Tragedy
6. Loss, Grief, and Trauma in Public Tragedy - Charles A. Corr
7. Effects of Public Tragedy on First Responders - Dana G. Cable and Terry Martin
8. Public Tragedy and the News Media - Paul R. Dolan
9. Different Faiths, Different Perceptions of Public Tragedy - Janice Lord, Melissa Hook and Sharon English
10. Funeral Directors and Public Tragedy - Elizabeth Bradley and LaVone V. Hazell

III. Coping with Public Tragedy
11. Critical Incident Stress Management and Other Crisis Counseling Approaches - Louis A. Gamino
12. Talking to Children about Terrorism - Linda Goldman
13. Schools, Children and Public Tragedy - Barbara L. Bouton
14. Meaning Making in the Wake of Public Tragedy - David A. Thompson and Edward J. Holland
15. Memorialization, Ritual and Public Tragedy - Kenneth J. Doka
16. A Healing Ritual at Yankee Stadium - David Benke
17. Public Tragedy and the Arts - Sandra Bertman
18. Victim Advocacy in the Aftermath of Tragedy - Marlene A. Young
19. Lessons from Combat Veterans - Alfonso R. Batres
20. Workplace Interventions - Rachel E. Kaul
21. Public Tragedy and Complicated Mourning - Therese A. Rando

IV. The Role of Hospice in Public Tragedy
22. Collaborating with relief Agencies: A Guide for Hospice - Nadine Reimer Penner
23. Hospice: A Resource in Community Tragedies - Marcia Lattanzi-Licht

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