Living Through Loss: Interventions Across the Life Span

by Nancy R. Hooyman, Sara Sanders, Betty Kramer

Book Overview

Living Through Loss is the first book to identify the many ways in which people experience loss over the course of life and to discuss the interventions most effective at each stage of life. The authors' starting point is that loss comes in many forms and can include not only suffering the death of a person one loves but also giving birth to a child with disabilities, living with chronic illness, or being abused, assaulted, or otherwise traumatized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231122470
• ISBN13: 9780231122474
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent social work resource

Update to date professional review of social work interventions for client journeys through grief and loss. Other professionals would benefit from the authors' presentations on resilience and life span development. This book will be replacing the classic books on grief and loss of the past 3 decades.