Death and Dying, Life and Living by Charles Corr

Death and Dying, Life and Living by Charles Corr

Practical and inspiring, this book helps you learn how to navigate encounters with death, dying, and bereavement. The authors emphasize ways that individuals and families can cope with life-threatening illness, grief, funerals, and other death-related topics -- including how to communicate constructively in the face of death. You'll learn about aided death -- a topic on many people's minds these days -- as well as about Alzheimer's disease and other life-altering conditions and prominent causes of death. You'll read personal stories and get insight into cultural and religious perspectives that affect people's encounters, attitudes, and practices in death-related matters. And you'll discover that you can gain important lessons about life and living from the study of death, dying, and bereavement.

Dr. Charles A. Corr has been teaching and writing in the field of death, dying and bereavement since 1975. He is a long-term member of both ADEC (Board of Directors, 1980-1983) and IWG (Chairperson, 1989-1993). Dr. Corr is a prolific contributor to this field, having been author, co-author or co-editor of 40 books and more than 140 chapters and articles in professional journals. His professional work has been recognized by three awards from ADEC (for Outstanding Personal Contributions to the Advancement of Knowledge in the Field of Death, Dying, & Bereavement, 1988; Death Educator Award, 1996; and Lifetime Achievement Award, 2020); the Herman Feifel Award for Lifetime Achievement from IWG; and awards from Children's Hospice International, the Center for Death Education and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, and the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation. Donna M. Corr has worked as a nurse in a variety of critical care, oncology and hospice settings. She is a former member of IWG and was for 17 years a faculty member (rising from instructor to professor) in the Nursing Faculty of St. Louis Community College at Forest Park. She was then a lecturer for two semesters at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Her publications include five books and more than two dozen articles and chapters. Books edited by Donna and/or Charles Corr have received five Book of the Year Awards from the American Journal of Nursing. Kenneth J. Doka (Ph.D., FT) is a professor emeritus of counseling at the graduate school of The College of New Rochelle, an ordained Lutheran minister, a licensed mental health counselor and senior vice-president to The Hospice Foundation of America, for whom he hosts annual teleconferences and edits the monthly newsletter (Journeys: A Newsletter to Help in Bereavement). Dr. Doka introduced the groundbreaking concepts of disenfranchised grief and adaptive grieving styles. His publications include over 100 chapters and articles in professional journals, as well as 40 books, the most recent of which are DISENFRANCHISED GRIEF: NEW DIRECTIONS, CHALLENGES, AND STRATEGIES FOR PRACTICE (2002); COUNSELING INDIVIDUALS WITH LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS (2009); GRIEVING BEYOND GENDER: UNDERSTANDING THE WAYS MEN AND WOMEN MOURN (2010); and GRIEF IS A JOURNEY (2016). A long-time member of both ADEC (president, 1993-1994) and IWG (chairperson, 1997-1999), Dr. Doka is editor of Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, one of the two major professional journals in this field. Among many awards, he received a Special Contributions to the Field Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award from ADEC; the Distinguished Alumni Award from his alma mater, Concordia College; and the Herman Feifel Award for Lifetime Achievement from the IWG.

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ISBN 13	9781337563895
ISBN 10	1337563897
Title	Death and Dying, Life and Living
Author	Charles Corr
Series	Mindtap Course List Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cengage Learning, Inc
Year published	2018-01-01
Number of pages	768
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