LibGuides: PSY-8340: Death and Dying: Week 2 Resources

Week 2 Resources

Attachment and Loss, Death and Dying
Mallon, B. (2008). Attachment and loss, death and dying. Theoretical foundations for bereavement counselling. In Dying, death, and grief: Working with adult bereavement (pp. 4-15). Sage.
This book chapter presents theories of loss and grief.
Definitions of Death
Sarbey, B. (2016). Definitions of death: Brain death and what matters in a person. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 3(3), 743-752.
This article provides an overview of the legal definition within the United States.
The Dying Process
Enck, G. E. (2003). The dying process. In C. D. Bryant & D. L. Peck (Eds.), Handbook of death and dying (pp. 457-467). Sage.
This book chapter explores the ways that people die.
Psychology’s Contributions to Thanatology
Stillion, J. M. (2014). Know theyself: Psychology’s contributions to thanatology. In J. Stillion & T. Attig (Eds.), Death, dying and bereavement: Contemporary persepctives, institutions, and practices (pp. 17-30). Springer Publishing.
This book chapter presents an overview of psychology’s contributions to thanatology, the study of death.

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