With this book, John H. Harvey—widely acknowledged as a key founder of the field of loss and trauma—introduces this broad, interdisciplinary field to undergraduate and beginning graduate students. While many texts cover individual areas such as death and dying or stress and coping, none cover the diversity of loss events that Harvey does in this single volume. Perspectives on Loss and Trauma is the first undergraduate text to present major loss as an encompassing category that includes trauma, death and dying, and stress and coping. It reviews theory and research on the most challenging types of human loss and trauma:
- death and dying
- disease and injuries
- war and violence
- divorce and dissolution
- unemployment and homelessness
- the holocaust and genocide
Written in consideration of cross-cultural, international perspectives on loss, Perspectives on Loss and Trauma discusses relevant therapy approaches and emphasizes a story-telling approach to coping with major loss. It concludes with chapters on therapy and personal adjustment to loss, providing immediate applicability to counselors, therapists, social workers, and other human service professionals.
Table of Content
1. Introduction to the Study of Loss and Trauma
2. Losing Loved Ones to Death
3. Dissolution and Divorce
4. Loss Due to Illness and Injury
5. Unemployment and Homelessness
6. Suicide
7. Life Span Losses and Aging
8. Violence and War
9. The Holocaust and Genocide
10. International Perspectives on Loss and Adaptation: The Case of Romania
11. Adaptation and Therapeutic Approaches
Perspectives on Personal Adjustment to Loss: An Integrative Commentary
About the author
John H. Harvey is Professor of Psychology at the University of Iowa. Formerly, he taught at Vanderbilt, Ohio State, and Texas Tech Universities and was Educational Affairs Officer at the American Psychological Association (APA) from 1981 to 1982. He is a social psychologist specializing in the study of close relationships, attribution and account making, and loss and trauma phenomena. He is a Fellow of Division 8 of the APA and was a Fulbright Research Fellow studying loss in Romania in the spring of 1998. He has authored and/or edited over 20 books and has published 130 articles and chapters. He was editor of ‘Contemporary Psychology’ from 1992 to 1998 and was founding editor of the ‘Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology’ and the ‘Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss.’ With Sage, he published the book ‘Perspectives on Loss and Trauma: Assaults on the Self’ in 2002.
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