Death and Dying: Life and Living
By:
Charles A. Corr Clyde M. Nabe Donna M. Corr
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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5
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Practical and inspiring, this best-selling book helps you learn to cope with encounters with death, dying, and bereavement. The authors integrate classical and contemporary material, present task-based approaches for individual and family coping, and include four substantial chapters devoted to death-related issues faced by children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. The text discusses a variety of cultural and religious perspectives that affect people’s understandings and practices associated with such encounters. The book also offers practical guidelines for constructive communication designed to encourage productive living in the face of death.
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
The Perfect Publication for Student and Layman Alike - While I am an undergraduate student in psychology, I have been blessed with a highly supportive professor that permitted me entrance into his Introduction to Thanatology graduate course. This book allowed me an immediate understanding that was both in depth and easy to digest.
Many texts on the subject of death and dying skirt the subject with veiled euphemisms. They often attempt to soften the reality of death in both its physical nature and historical context, however, this publication does neither. It is direct, informative, and, even for a required reading, difficult to put down. It says quite a bit about the authors of this book that they not only come so highly recommended by my professor (who is also a published author in this field), but also by the group of students being tested on its content. Very well done!
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Excellent 'Keeper' - The authors have done an excellent job presenting a difficult and complex topic. Their discussions of the historical, multicultural, and life cycle attitudes toward death and dying are important contributions to the literature. The two negative reviews here by students are perplexing. Indeed, this book may be one of the best available for the classroom. Too, if you're looking for an excellent bibliography on the subject, this is the book to use.
Customer Review: 3 out of 5
good job - I recieved the book in a timely manner and it was close to new. i so appreciate it!!!!and it was a good price too...
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
this book is excellent - I am a medical social worker on a Unit which has a high mortality rate because of the nature of the illness for which patients are admitted. I have also lectured on "Death and Dying." I have found this book to be of immense value: accurate, well-written and direct. I often recommend it to my students and colleagues. I don't recommend sitting down and reading it cover to cover. I find it is much more helpful to choose the chapters most relevant for my purpose (an individual patient or situation; research, etc.) I definitely recommend it.
Customer Review: 1 out of 5
Necessary, but useless - I was really looking forward to the class this book was necessary for. And while I learned a lot of interesting material, almost none of it was from the text. Nothing that i'm going to carry away from this class was learned from the book. While it gave the trival bits of information that were located in the test material, most of those you could gather from simple common sense. If you want to get anything out of a class using this as a text, hope your prof. likes to lecture. Otherwise... you're really going to hate it.
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