Overview
- A timely text that specifically relates recent theoretical understandings to social care practice
The text includes extensive examples from current practice and detailed interviews with practitioners
A uniquely comprehensive book that presents both sociological as well as psychological frameworks for understanding dying and bereavement
Access this book
Other ways to access
Table of contents (9 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book argues that dying and bereavement are issues for all social care practitioners, illustrating the wide variety of ways in which they are involved. Examples are taken from mainstream as well as specialist settings. Early chapters focus upon the relevance of theoretical understandings and the perspectives of dying and bereaved people themselves. There is detailed consideration of practitioners' accounts of their responses to people who are grieving. Conclusions relate to issues of training and support, and implications for practice.
About the author
CAROLINE CURRER is Senior Lecturer at Anglia Polytechnic University where she is centrally involved with a range of teaching programmes leading to qualifications in social work and social care. Her practice experience is in psychiatric social work and she has an academic background in the sociology of health and illness. In a voluntary capacity she is a supervisor with a local branch of Cruse Bereavement Care.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Responding to Grief
Book Subtitle: Dying, Bereavement and Social Care
Authors: Caroline Currer
Editors: Jo Campling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-87635-8
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2001
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 181
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Social Work