Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Perinatal Bereavement: Concepts and Theories
Chapter 1: Cultural Aspects of Pregnancy Loss
Chapter 2: Professional Provider Grief and Perinatal Bereavement
Chapter 3: Applying Theoretical Frameworks to Quantitative Research in Perinatal Bereavement
Chapter 4: The Controversy of the Fetus
Chapter 5: Caregiving as a Theoretical Framework in Perinatal Hospice
Chapter 6: Rumination and Posttraumatic Growth After Pregnancy Loss
Chapter 7: Pushing On: An Emergent Theory of Maternal Perinatal Bereavement
Chapter 8: Complicated Grief Following Pregnancy Loss
Chapter 9: Mindfulness and its Role in Perinatal Bereavement
Chapter 10: Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Couples After Pregnancy Loss
Chapter 11: The Effects of Pregnancy Bereavement on Women’s Perceptions of Subsequent Pregnancies
Chapter 12: The Effects of a Baby’s Death on Siblings Later in Life
Part II: Pediatric Bereavement: Concepts and Theories
Chapter 13: When a Child Dies: The Influences of Culture on Grief and Bereavement
Chapter 14: Theoretical Perspectives on Pediatric Palliative Care
Chapter 15: Professional Provider Grief in Caring for Terminally Ill Children

About the Author

Beth Perry Black, PhD, RN is Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at UNC at Chapel Hill, USA and has had two NIH-funded grants focusing on perinatal end of life care. She teaches an interdisciplinary graduate course on death, dying and care of the bereaved. She is also an experienced editor, having co-edited two editions of a nursing textbook, Professional Nursing: Concepts and Challenges (Elsevier), and recently completed her first solo edition that will be released in February 2013.

Rana Limbo, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN, director of bereavement and advance care planning services, Gundersen Health System, and also Faculty Associate, University of Wisconsin/Madison School of Nursing, USA is widely regarded for her work in perinatal bereavement care.

Patricia Moyle Wright, PhD, RN is Associate Professor of Nursing at The University of Scranton, USA where she teaches in the Advanced Practice Nursing Program.

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