Worldwide economic constraints on health care systems have highlighted the importance of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based health policy. The resulting clinical trials and health services research studies require instruments to monitor outcomes of care and the output of the health system. However the overabundance of competing measurement scales can make choosing a measure difficult at best. Measuring Health provides in-depth reviews of over 100 of the leading health measurement tools and serves as a guide for choosing among them.
From book's back cover: "This book was produced as a companion to Hospice Foundation of America's 7th annual National Bereavement Teleconference. Hospice Foundation of America is a not-for-profit organization that provides leadership in the development and application of hospice and its philosophy of care. Through education, research, and philanthropic programs, Hospice Foundation of America assists those who cope either personally or professionally with illness, death, and the process of grief."
Part I : Theoretical Overview
1. The kingdom where nobody dies - Robert Kastenbaum
2. What do we know about grieving children and adolescents? - Charles Corr
3. Adolescents, grief, and loss - David Balk
4. Culture and class : the different worlds of children and adolescents - Margarita Suarez and Susan McFeaters
5. The role of the school - Stan Johns
Part II : Clinical Approaches with Children and Adolescents
6. To everything there is a season : empowering families and natural support systems - Earl Grollman
7. Couseling approaches with children and adolescents - Dottie Ward-Wimmer and Carol Napoli
8. Part of me died too : creative strategies for grieving children and adolescents - Virginia Lynn Fry
9. Play therapy to help bereaved children - Nancy Boyd Webb
10. Using ritual with children and adolescents - Kenneth Doka
11. The use of groups with grieving children and adolescents - Donna Schuurman
12. Magical dreams, visions of reality : guidelines for developing a grief center for children - Rebecca Sloan Byrne
13. The role of death education in helping students to cope with loss - Robert Stevenson
Part III : Special Losses
14. When parents die - Phyllis Silverman
15. Sibling bereavement : we are grieving too - Betty Davies
16. The military model for children and grief - Bonnie Carroll and Major Judy Mathewson
17. In the aftermath : children and adolescents as survivor-victims of suicide - Terry Martin
18. Grief and traumatic loss : what schools need to know and do - Peter Sheras
19. Resonating trauma : a theoretical note - Jack Gordon and Kenneth Doka
