Loss, change and bereavement in palliative care

How do professionals meet the needs of bereaved people?

How do professionals undertake best practice with individuals, groups, families and communities?

What are the implications for employing research to influence practice?

This book provides a resource for working with a complex range of loss situations and includes chapters on childhood bereavement, and individual and family responses to loss and change.

It contains the most up-to-date work in the field presented by experienced practitioners and researchers and is relevant not only for those working in specialist palliative care settings, but for professionals in general health and social care sectors.

Strong links are maintained between research and good practice throughout the book.

These are reinforced by the coherent integration of international research material and the latest thinking about loss and bereavement.

Experts and clinicians draw upon their knowledge and practice, whilst the essential perspective of the service user is central to this book. "Loss, Change and Bereavement in Palliative Care" provides essential reading for a range of professional health and social care disciplines practising at postgraduate or post-registration/qualification level.

It challenges readers, at an advanced level, on issues of loss, change and bereavement.

Contributors are Lesley Adshead, Jenny Altschuler, Peter Beresford, Grace Christ, Suzy Croft, Pam Firth, Shirley Firth, Richard Harding, Felicity Hearn, Jennie Lester, Gill Luff, Linda Machin, Jan McLaren, David Oliviere, Ann Quinn, Phyllis Silverman, Jean Walker, Karen Wilman.