341
Index
abandonment, 207
acceptance, 12–13, 17
accidental death
of adolescent, 120, 123–124
of child, 68
of emerging adult, 151–152
of spouse, 222–227
accomodation phase, 15
ACE. See adverse childhood
events (ACE)
adolescents, 111–141
biological development, 112–114
death of, 123–125
with developmental disabilities,
136–140
developmental stage, 112
emotional expression, 116–117
friend death, 120, 131–136
grandparent death, 119–120
grandparents’ loss of, 124–125
higher expectations on, 125
identity changes in, 125–126
interventions with, 122–123
life-threatening illness in, 122
losses experienced by, 116–122
nondeath losses, 121–122
parental death, 117–119
parents’ loss of, 123–124
psychosocial development, 114–116
relationship loss, 121–122
self-esteem/identity loss, 121
sibling death, 118–119
typical and maturational losses,
125–126
adoption, 184, 185
adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH), 5
adults. See emerging adults; middle
adulthood; older adults; young
adulthood
adult sufficiency or insufficiency, 144
advanced medical directives, 276
adverse childhood events (ACE), 85, 296
aging parents, 206, 247
aging process, 260–261
AIDS deaths, 177, 216
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 155
Alex’s Lemonade, 68
Alzheimer’s disease, 271
ambiguous loss, 7, 22–23, 93, 99
andropause, 204
anger, 12, 13
relationship loss and, 154
self-directed, 49–50
anniversary reaction, 6
antidepressants, 45
anxiety
death, 262
economic pressures and, 152–153
infant, 75–76
during pregnancy, 31–32, 34
ART. See assisted reproductive
technologies (ART)
assisted reproductive technologies
(ART), 42–43
assumptive world, 8, 18–19
attachment
maternal depression and, 74
during pregnancy, 28, 31, 33,
36–38, 40
styles, 13–14, 38, 61–62
ATTEND model, 24–25, 155
autonomy versus shame, 60
avoidance phase, 15
bargaining stage, 12
Baratz Dalke, K., 127–131
belief in a just world (BJW), 146
belief systems, 243
benzodiazepines, 45
bereavement, 8, 14, 90, 97. See also grief;
mourning
in men, 149
morbidity and mortality and, 3–4, 5
perinatal, 38–39, 41, 45
bereavement exception, in DSM-5, 10,
290–291
biological developmental context, of
pregnancy, 28–30
biological effects of grief, 3–5
birth, 292
experience of, 69
of sibling, 70
Boiler, J., 78–82
