Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan, Second Edition

7 Young Adulthood 201 Another theme of young adulthood is finding a place in the world of work. Most are unprepared for the poss ...

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203 EIGHT Middle Adulthood Barbara, 53 years old and an only child, had always shared a close relationship with her 78-year-old ...

204 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan Developmental Crisis: Generativity Versus Stagnation Within this text, midlife adults are ...

8 Middle Adulthood 205 New research demonstrates that what we do in midlife matters. Exercise, education, and good nutrition imp ...

206 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan Social Development Many midlife adults face emotional losses as their families become rec ...

8 Middle Adulthood 207 Marshall (2004) found that the loss of both parents is a “two-staged tran- sition” because adult children ...

208 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan the death left a void and the new birth created joy; (b) “No to a child memo- rial,” as t ...

8 Middle Adulthood 209 Nevertheless, sibling relationships are often fraught with rivalry and ambivalence and bereaved siblings ...

210 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan Death of a Cousin There is no professional literature on the loss of a cousin, but the in ...

8 Middle Adulthood 211 fibromyalgia indicates that women learn to live with their chronic illness over time and find new ways to ...

212 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan as a result of joblessness. Family members and close associates often bear the brunt of a ...

8 Middle Adulthood 213 Baum (2003) found that men tend to begin mourning later than women, which may stem from three factors: (a ...

214 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan Similarly, the deaths of lesbian partners provoke stock-taking and reas- sessment just as ...

8 Middle Adulthood 215 loved him. It seemed as if nobody recognized this.... We partners live in a very small segment of society ...

216 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan throughout her illness, “When the family gathered with the family physician, they took th ...

8 Middle Adulthood 217 point, having communicated little during the parenting years. Although cou- ples gain some freedom, they ...

218 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan down his goals to meet the needs of individual clients. These career adjust- ments and an ...

8 Middle Adulthood 219 Four of his photographs are sitting on a table in my living room. Two are of Venice; one is of a plein ai ...

220 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan sense of dread a kind of denial? Did I not want to admit that this would be the last time ...