Grieving Beyond Gender: Understanding the Ways Men and Women Mourn, Revised Edition

Doka (gerontology, College of New Rochelle) and Martin (psychology and thanatology, Hood College) describe two patterns of grieving. One is intuitive, in which people experience and express grief in an affective way, and seek adaptive strategies that are oriented toward the expression of affect. The other they call instrumental, in which grief is experienced physically, such as in a restlessness or cognition, and the adaptive strategies tend to be cognitive and active. These are ends of a continuum, the explain, and though women tend toward the intuitive and men toward the instrumental directions, there is no clear relation between gender and grieving patterns. They write for grief counselors, psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, pastoral counselors, and other therapists. No date is cited for the first edition. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)