Midlife Loss: Coping Strategies

This innovative volume focuses on how people cope with the inevitable losses encountered in the middle years of life, from the mid-thirties to the mid-fifties. It views midlife as a stage in which people develop and as a time that links youth and the later years in which loss and stress can lead to growth and positive change. An introductory chapter summarizes the literature on models of midlife. Following chapters then discuss specific losses, including the death of one's parents, transformations in relationships and parental lives and the loss of a child. Two chapters deal with losses associated with marriage, divorce and widowhood. The impact of job loss in the middle years is evaluated, and ways in which usual experiences of midlife may be affected by relocating from one culture to another are examined. Each chapter reflects both the research available and the individual contributor's ideas and insights. Finally, a personal view of the middle years and an editorial exhortation on how this transition stage can be an exciting and positive time, in spite of losses encountered. Midlife Loss is directed to advanced students, academics, and practitioners in psychology, sociology, counselling, social work, gerontology and family studies.Kalish, Richard A. is the author of 'Midlife Loss: Coping Strategies', published 1989 under ISBN 9780803930544 and ISBN 0803930542.