Trauma Studies

The workplace is not immune to the problems, pressures, and challenges presented by experiences of loss and trauma and the grief reactions they produce. This book offers insights and understanding to help us appreciate the difficulties involved and prepare ourselves for dealing with such demanding s..

Expands the metaphor to include earlier and future or potential losses as well as losses associated with the death that may be unrecognized or minimized. This book includes chapters that examine complications that may be present or may arise, suggestions for mending even the torn fabric, and a chapt..

Offers a historical account of the profound economic collapse of the Connecticut River Valley region, focusing on Bosch, its workers, and its union. This book describes how the US, in a ten-year period from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, went from being the world's leading exporter of machine tools..

Since US President Reagan and UK Prime Minister Thatcher, a major ideology (under the name of economic science) has been expanded worldwide that claims that the best policies to stimulate human development are those that reduce the role of the state in economic and social lives. This book collects a..

Based on the hypothesis that the new dynamics of old age is best observed in a range of everyday aging contexts that have been undergoing major change since the second half of the 20th century. This book is aimed at scholarly community of gerontology in a variety of disciplines; sociology, psycholog..

When Diane Sher Lutovich set out to attain closure of her mother's death she simultaneously discovered how other women address their losses. This book tells the big and little stories of women who, having come of age during the feminist revolution, lived very different lives than their mothers...

Nursing is vital to millions of people worldwide. This book details the ebb and flow of its fascinating history and politics through case studies from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. It explores fresh thinking about Western hemisphere-specific issues that a..

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Examines the impact of outsourcing on the field of technical communication. This title addresses the needs of graduate students, faculty, and technical communicators who want to teach, practice, or conduct research in this area. It explores issues of curriculum, project management, legal considerati..

Looks at the nature and types of violence, the causes of violence, and the emotional wake left by violent episodes. This title focuses on the need to better understand violence, both lethal and non-lethal, to become aware of the many forms of violence, and to learn how to survive in the aftermath of..

Posttraumatic Growth provides a wide range of answers to questions concerning knowledge of posttraumatic growth (PTG) theory, its synthesis and contrast with other theories and models, and its applications in diverse settings...

From the authors who helped pioneer the concept of posttraumatic growth comes Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Practice, a sorely needed text that brings the study of growth after trauma into the twenty-first century...