Dying and Grieving: Lifespan and Family Perspectives

by Alicia Skinner Cook and Alicia Skinner Cook; Kevin Ann Oltjenbruns

Book Overview

From a lifespan development perspective, the authors address the major aspects of the dying and grieving process. The text focuses on the practical application of the theories and explanations... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030005124
• ISBN13: 9780030005121
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Holt McDougal
• Length: 510 Pages

Customer Reviews

excellent

I'm afraid I'm only familiar with the first edition of the text, which I used in a course I lead on death, dying, and grieving. However, I imagine this second edition only improves on the first. The book's insightful content is not only marvelous to see in a textbook, but the prose itself is well worth reading as well--from the first sentence of the first chapter: "A dying individual is a living individual." Both unusual standards for texts. Quite a labor of love.Each chapter closes with a personal account related to the developmental or family perspective on which the chapter focusses; these, as the authors remarked, "say it all." Each chapter also includes recommended reading, both fiction and non-fiction, for people who would like to read more.

honors the textbook form and writing in general

includes personal accounts at the end of each chapter. Very touching. For people freshly in grief, I don't think a textbook of grief would be most interesting--might browse "In the Midst of Winter: Selections from the Literature of Morning," edited by Mary Jane Moffat.. But writing a textbook about death and grief, especially one as well written as this, I think responds to how textbooks can be sources of what's important to know in life.