Table of Contents

Part I: Patterns of Grief. Introduction and Plan of the Book. Definitions: Understanding Grief. Patterns of Grief: Intuitive Grievers. Instrumental Grievers. Dissonant Responses. Part II: Pathways to Patterns. Personality as a Shaper of Patterns. The Role of Gender. Culture as a Shaping Agent. Part III: Implications and Interventions. Adaptive Strategies: Implications for Counselors. Strategies for Self-Help and Intervention: The Need for Interventive Intentionality. Conclusion.

About the Author

Kenneth J. Doka, Ph.D., is a Professor of Gerontology at the Graduate School of The College of New Rochelle and Senior Consultant to the Hospice Foundation of America. Terry L. Martin, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology and Thanatology at Hood College, and maintains a private practice in Maryland.

Reviews

"This book reminds us of the unique nature of the end of life and that one size does not fit all. It reminds us also of the highly complex, individual nature of grief." - Cruse Bereavement Care "This new book offers a revised and expanded look at instrumental and intuitive grieving, and it makes for engaging, thought-provoking reading. Doka and Martin's book represents a significant advance in thinking about bereavement, grief, and mourning. It offers that rare gift: a powerful conceptual framework for organizing one's whole thinking about doing bereavement research and counseling the bereaved. The ideas of intuitive and instrumental grieving offer conceptual scaffolding both researchers and practitioners can understand and use to communicate with one another. This book contains possibilities for collaboration between researchers and practitioners to bridge the gap that separates them; even more important, it offers possibilities of working together as equals on projects of interest to both." - Death Studies, [35], 2011