Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan, Second Edition

Index 347

military spouse, 181
military veterans, 93, 179–181
end-of-life issues, 281–286
suicide by, 270
Miller, W. P., 248–250
mind-body connection, 4
mindfulness, 4, 5, 24–25, 51, 96, 123,
155–156, 273–274
miscarriage, 35–41, 292
mortality
awareness of, 214
bereavement and, 3–4
confronting own, 209, 237
perspective on own, 261–262
mother. See also parents
death of, 148, 174
maternal depression, 66–67, 74–77, 185
motherhood, 48, 173
mourning
Freud on, 9
infertility and, 184
influence of culture on, 39–40
rituals, 7
Muscarella, R., 186–190
music, 123
mutual help organizations (MHOs),
117, 155

Narcotics Anonymous (NA), 155
narrative, 17, 50, 174, 199
naturally occurring retirement
communities (NORCs)/ aging in
place, 262–263
Neimeyer, R., 19
neonatal intensive care units (NICUs),
44, 45, 91
neonates, 44–45
neuroplasticity, 204
neurobiology, 5, 60, 67, 84-5, 112–-113,
144, 172, 261
newborns, 60–61. See also infants
New Senior Woman, 263–264
Nguyen, H., 103–108
nonfinite (chronic) grief, 22–23
nonmarried partner, death of, 177–178,
214–216
numbness, 13
nursing home residents, 272

off-time losses, 2, 147, 173, 175–178, 200
older adults, 259–287. See also
retirement/reinvention
biological development, 260–261

chronic/life-threatening illness in, 270–271

death of adult child, 267–268

developmental crisis, 260

end-of-life issues, 274–277

friend death, 269

home loss/relocation, 271–272

interventions with, 273–277

losses experienced by, 264–273

nondeath losses, 270–271

partner loss, 264–267

positive aging, 263–264

psychological development, 261–262

resilience by, 269

social development, 262–263

suicide among, 269–270

typical and maturational losses,

271–273

veterans, 281–286

viewpoint about death of, 261–262

online support groups, 176

Open to Hope, 176

original loss, 69

ovarian cancer, 160–164

palliative care, 274–276

parenthood, 173

losses connected with transition to,

184–186, 292

parents

adolescent’s loss of, 117–119

aging, 206, 247

child leaving home loss, 216–217

children’s loss of, 63–65, 89–90, 95

death of, 89–90, 117–119, 146–148,

173–174, 206–207

depression in, 66–67, 74–77, 185

divorce of, 92–93, 178–179

emerging adult’s loss of, 146–148

first-time dads, 70–74

gay and lesbian, 185–186

life-threatening illness in, 95

loss of adolescent by, 123–124

loss of adult child by, 207–208, 267–268

loss of both, 207

loss of child by, 96–99, 186–190

loss of emerging adult child by, 151–152

loss of idealized child by, 68–69

loss of infant or young child by, 68

loss of young adult child by, 182

midlife adult’s loss of, 206–207

military deployment of, 93

parental separations, 64

suicide of, 164–169

young adult’s loss of, 173–174