Death Notification: A Practical Guide to the Process SYNOPSIS
If it is your job to notify a family that a death has occurred --
or is soon expected -- how do you proceed? How can you help survivors to cope
with the potentially devastating news? Using vivid examples, Moroni Leash
guides the reader through this difficult task in a wide variety of
situations. His thorough research and extensive personal experience will help
you meet the family's needs in a constructive, helpful way--and to avoid the
all-too-common mistakes that can compound the tragedy. Death Notification is
a valuable professional resource for physicians, nurses, social workers,
clergy, coroners, military, emergency and law enforcement personnel.
About the Author>
R. Moroni Leash is a practicing mental health therapist and a
licensed clinical social worker. Over the years, he has taught numerous
classes on topics related to this subject, including grief management,
psychosocial issues in trauma care, management of families in crisis,
critical care nursing, and family crisis management. He has completed two
master's degrees: one in health care administration from California State
University, Long Beach, and another in social work from the California State
University, Sacramento.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
This sensitive, insightful and extremely helpful guide...
should be read by all health-care providers. — Thomas A. Raffin, M.D.,
Co-Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University.
This book brings sensitivity, empathy, dignity, and respect to a process
that tends to devastate both the giver and receiver of the ultimate bad news
in life. — LTC Terry A. Dempsey, Chief of Chaplains, Pentagon, Washington,
D.C.
We have only one chance to tell a family that a loved one has died. Mr.
Leash's book can help us do it right the first time. — Frank Nieto, LCSW,
Social Work Director, University of California Davis Medical Center.
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