Disenfranchised Grief focuses on the kind of grief that is not openly acknowledged, socially validated, or publicly mourned. It addresses the unique psychological, biological, and sociological issues involved in disenfranchised grief.
The contributing authors explore the concept of disenfranchised grief, help define and explain this type of grief, and offer clinical interventions to help grievers express their hidden sorrow.
Book Reviews
“The book is comprehensive and rich in detail. It is not written for a lay audience, but the concept of disenfranchised grief and the message of the book are worthy of a broad audience extending beyond those concerned with the academic specialty and applied practice of bereavement counseling. . . . This book broadens our vision to include the disenfranchised other as well as aspects of our own loss and grief that we would otherwise marginalize. Moreover, it supplies the conceptual tools necessary to respond empathically to significant losses and enfranchise marginalized grief.”
—Steve Harrist, Death Studies
“As articulated by the present set of writers, disenfranchised grief has been dissected into different types and components. . . . the book is ripe with suggestions and implications for therapists and counselors who work with clients who are in the throes of grief.”
—John H. Harvey, Omega
Section I—Theoretical Overview
- Introduction
Kenneth J. Doka
- A Closer Look at Doka’s Grieving Rules
Sarah Brabant
- Revisiting the Concept of Disenfranchised Grief
Charles A. Corr
- The Psychology of Disenfranchised Grief: Liberation, Shame, and Self-Disenfranchisement
Jeffrey Kauffman
- Empirical Assessment of Disenfranchised Grief: 1989-2000
Gordon Thornton and Mary Lou Zanich
Section II—Clinical Interventions: Tools and Techniques
- Disenfranchisement as Empathic Failure: Grief Therapy and the Co-Construction of Meaning
Robert A. Neimeyer and John R. Jordan
- A Pastoral Counselor Looks at Silence as a Factor in Disenfranchised Grief
Dale R. Kuhn
- The Role of Support Groups in Disenfranchised Grief
Eileen McKeon Pesek
- The Role of Ritual in the Treatment of Disenfranchised Grief
Kenneth J. Doka
Section III—Illustrations of Practice
- A Later Loss: The Grief of Ex-Spouses
Kenneth J. Doka
- Grief and the Workplace: Positive Approaches
Marcia Lattanzi-Licht
- Disenfranchised Grief in Caregivers
William M. Lamers, Jr.
- Nursing Home Staff Reactions to Resident Deaths
Sidney Z. Moss and Miriam S. Moss
- Psychosocial Loss and Grief
Kenneth J. Doka and Rita A. Aber
- Disenfranchising the Brokenhearted
Terry L. Martin
- Disenfranchised Grief and the Loss of an Animal Companion
Barbara Meyers
- Unrecognized Losses in Child Adoption
Rose Cooper
- Youth and Disenfranchised Grief
Louise Rowling
- The Disenfranchised Grief of Children
David A. Crenshaw
- Disenfranchised Grief and Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
Claire Lavin
- How We Die: Stigmatized Death and Disenfranchised Grief
Kenneth J. Doka
- How We Grieve: Culture, Class, and Gender
Kenneth J. Doka and Terry L. Martin
Section IV—Disenfranchised Grief: Education and Policy
- Disenfranchised Grief and the Politics of Helping: Social Policy and Its Clinical Implications
John J. Reynolds
- Incorporating Disenfranchised Grief in the Death Education Classroom
Ellen S. Zinner
- Balancing the Costs of Enfranchising the Disenfranchised Griever
Jack Kamerman
- Epilogue
Kenneth J. Doka