Adolescent Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping

Emphasizes cultural factors that affect the adolescent coping with death. This book explores many conceptual frameworks, models, and ideas that have appeared on the scene such as: dual process model for understanding loss; ideas about assumptive worlds; and, debates about the benefit and harm of grief counseling with the normally bereaved.

This book is a research-based text and emphasizes cultural factors that often significantly affect the adolescent coping with death. It provides considerable focus in each chapter on peer-reviewed research dealing with the various topics. Balk and Corr explore the numerous conceptual frameworks, models, and ideas that have appeared on the scene within the past years: dual process model for understanding loss; ideas about assumptive worlds; debates about the benefit and harm of grief counseling with the normally bereaved; efforts to bridge the gap separating researchers and practitioners; and, stimulating essays about recovery and resilience following bereavement.