Grieving beyond gender : understanding the ways men and women mourn / / Kenneth J. Doka and Terry L. Martin.

• Superior document: Series in death, dying, and bereavement
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Doka, Kenneth J.
• TeilnehmendeR: Martin, Terry L.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Rev. ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Series in death, dying, and bereavement.
• Physical Description: xx, 238 p.

Table of Contents

• Introduction and plan of the book
• Definitions: understanding grief
• Patterns of grief: intuitive grievers
• Instrumental grievers
• Dissonant responses
• Personality as a shaper of patterns
• The role of gender
• Culture as a shaping agent
• Adaptive strategies: implications for counselors
• Strategies for self-help and intervention : the need for interventive intentionality.