Helping the Bereaved College Student

"David Balk, who has devoted most of his professional life to teaching and especially with college students and their life journeys, offers Helping the Bereaved College Student as a major contribution to the field...The author meets an important need by addressing the presence of grief among college students that is often unnoticed and unaddressed."--Illness, Crisis and Loss

Approximately one-fourth of all college students suffer the loss of a family member or friend during their college career, yet the prevalence of bereavement on the college campus is largely unrecognizedósometimes by even the bereaved students themselves. This is the only volume to comprehensively address the ways in which bereavement may affect the college student, and guide mental health professionals in effectively treating this underserved population.

Authored by an internationally known expert on bereavement, the book culls the wisdom gained from 25 years of research. It considers the major models of bereavement, grief, and mourning as they apply to the particular life stage and environment of the college student, and includes student narratives, treatment exercises and activities, and issues regarding self-disclosure. This volume will be a vital tool in helping college students to grieve in a constructive manner while avoiding potential obstacles to a successful college career.

Key Features:

  • Provides helpful exercises and interventions to guide academic advisors, college counselors, and campus ministries in helping bereaved students
  • Applies major models of bereavement, grief, and mourning specifically to the experience of the college student
  • Includes vivid case studies of students in mourning
  • Incorporates current research about grieving patterns

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Helping the Bereaved College Student

"David Balk, who has devoted most of his professional life to teaching and especially with college students and their life journeys, offers Helping the Bereaved College Student as a major contribution to the field...The author meets an important need by addressing the presence of grief among college students that is often unnoticed and unaddressed."--Illness, Crisis and Loss

Approximately one-fourth of all college students suffer the loss of a family member or friend during their college career, yet the prevalence of bereavement on the college campus is largely unrecognizedósometimes by even the bereaved students themselves. This is the only volume to comprehensively address the ways in which bereavement may affect the college student, and guide mental health professionals in effectively treating this underserved population.

Authored by an internationally known expert on bereavement, the book culls the wisdom gained from 25 years of research. It considers the major models of bereavement, grief, and mourning as they apply to the particular life stage and environment of the college student, and includes student narratives, treatment exercises and activities, and issues regarding self-disclosure. This volume will be a vital tool in helping college students to grieve in a constructive manner while avoiding potential obstacles to a successful college career.

Key Features:

  • Provides helpful exercises and interventions to guide academic advisors, college counselors, and campus ministries in helping bereaved students
  • Applies major models of bereavement, grief, and mourning specifically to the experience of the college student
  • Includes vivid case studies of students in mourning
  • Incorporates current research about grieving patterns

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Helping the Bereaved College Student

Helping the Bereaved College Student

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Helping the Bereaved College Student

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"David Balk, who has devoted most of his professional life to teaching and especially with college students and their life journeys, offers Helping the Bereaved College Student as a major contribution to the field...The author meets an important need by addressing the presence of grief among college students that is often unnoticed and unaddressed."--Illness, Crisis and Loss

Approximately one-fourth of all college students suffer the loss of a family member or friend during their college career, yet the prevalence of bereavement on the college campus is largely unrecognizedósometimes by even the bereaved students themselves. This is the only volume to comprehensively address the ways in which bereavement may affect the college student, and guide mental health professionals in effectively treating this underserved population.

Authored by an internationally known expert on bereavement, the book culls the wisdom gained from 25 years of research. It considers the major models of bereavement, grief, and mourning as they apply to the particular life stage and environment of the college student, and includes student narratives, treatment exercises and activities, and issues regarding self-disclosure. This volume will be a vital tool in helping college students to grieve in a constructive manner while avoiding potential obstacles to a successful college career.

Key Features:

  • Provides helpful exercises and interventions to guide academic advisors, college counselors, and campus ministries in helping bereaved students
  • Applies major models of bereavement, grief, and mourning specifically to the experience of the college student
  • Includes vivid case studies of students in mourning
  • Incorporates current research about grieving patterns


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826108791
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Publication date: 05/26/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 380
File size: 780 KB

About the Author

David E. Balk, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York where he directs Graduate Studies in Thanatology. He is an Associate Editor of Death Studies, and serves as that journal's Book Review Editor. Dr. Balk is a member of ADEC and The International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement.

Table of Contents

"Preface

PART I: PRELUDE TO A DISCUSSION OF HELPING

    1. Ambushed by Someone's Death

    2. What Do We Know About College Students and the College Environment

    3. What Do We Know About Bereavement Following a Death

    4. Bereavement Seen as a Stressful Event

    5. Bereavement and Different Causes of Death

PART II: INTRODUCING THE BEREAVED COLLEGE STUDENT

    6. What Do We Know About Bereavement and College Students

    7. Bereavement's Impact on a College Student

    8. What Bereaved College Students Need

PART III: DOING SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE

    9. What Can Happen on Campus

    10. Self-Disclosure, Bereavement, and College Students

    11. Reflections about Recovery following Bereavement

    12. Spirituality and College Student Bereavement

PART IV: CONCLUSION

    13. Hope

Afterword: A Letter to Bereaved College Students

Index

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