Includes bibliographical references and index.

The cost of commitment -- The broken heart -- Trauma -- Attachment and loss -- Continuing bonds -- Anger and guilt -- Changing the assumptive world -- Complications of grief -- Determinants of grief I : kinship, gender, and age -- Determinants of grief II : mode of death -- Determinants of grief III : personal vulnerability -- Determinants of grief IV : social and cultural influences -- Helping the bereaved I : bereavement support: history and evaluation -- Helping the bereaved II : types of help for types of problem -- Helping the bereaved III : sources of help -- Reactions to other types of loss -- Disasters.