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It is often convenient to assume that grief is a basic human process, akin to breathing, sleeping, or walking. While there will always be slight differences in the duration, intensity, and exact grieving process of a given individual, the similarities in the fundamental experience and physical and mental responses to loss allow counselors, friends, and family members to have a foundation for work with the bereaved. However, while these underlying similarities can help to facilitate our understanding of the grieving experience, it is important to consider the impacts that particular cultural, historical, societal, and religious traits can have on a group's experiences with grief. In light of this acknowledgement, there have been a number of cross-cultural studies of grieving rituals, funeral and burial rites, and mourning experiences that have all contributed to an increased sensitivity to the distinctiveness of grieving experiences between different groups. But what has not been considered is a non-comparative study of a specific group's unique experiences with grief, within its own context and without comparison to white, Euro-American experiences. African American Grief is a unique contribution to the field, both as a professional resource for counselors, therapists, social workers, clergy, and nurses, and as a reference volume for thanatologists, academics, and researchers. This work considers the potential effects of slavery, racism, and white ignorance and oppression on the African American experience and conception of death and grief in America. Based on interviews with 26 African-Americans who have faced the death of a significant person in their lives, the authors document, describe, and analyze key phenomena of the unique African-American experience of grief. The book combines moving narratives from the interviewees with sound research, analysis, and theoretical discussion of important issues in thanatology as well as topics such as the influence of the African-American church, gospel music, family grief, medical racism as a cause of death, and discrimination during life and after death.
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African Americans, Attitude to Death, Bereavement, Ethnology, Grief, Loss (Psychology), Mental health, Nonfiction, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Bereavement, Psychology, Noirs américains, Perte (Psychologie), Santé mentale, SELF-HELP, Aspect psychologique, Deuil, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Chagrin, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS, Psychologie, African americans, mental health, African americans, psychology, Bereavement, psychological aspects, Loss (psychology), Internal medicine, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Black or African AmericanPlaces
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African American Grief
2005, Taylor and Francis
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0203956524 9780203956526
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