Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities Experiencing Loss and Bereavement: Theory and Compassionate Practice - Softcover

Sue Read

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849053693 ISBN 13: 9781849053693

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

The diverse range of experiences in this book explore the theory and practice around bereavement for people with intellectual disabilities, and provide evidence and case studies to support best practice approaches

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About the Authors

Rachel Forrester-Jones is Senior Lecturer in Community Care at the Tizard Centre, University of Kent, UK, where she also engages in service consultancy. She researches issues related to loss, as well as social networks and social support of different client groups including students with disabilities, and she has been Master of Rutherford College, University of Kent since 2002.

Erica Brown is Head of Research and Development at Acorns Children's Hospice in Birmingham. She has lectured and published internationally in the field of special education, spiritual and religious care, palliative care and bereavement. She is also a trained bereavement counsellor.

Sue Read, PhD, is Professor of Learning Disability Nursing at Keele University, UK, and has worked in the area of intellectual disabilities since 1976. Her research interests include loss, death, dying and bereavement specifically, although not exclusively, with people with intellectual disabilities. She is also a practicing clinician supporting people with an intellectual disability and their families with issues of loss, end of life care and bereavement. She has disseminated her work widely through international conferences and publications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849053693
• ISBN 13: 9781849053693
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280