Citation:	Holden, J. M., Greyson, B., & James, D. (Eds.). (2009). The handbook of near-death experiences: Thirty years of investigation. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Author:	Janice Holden
Genre:	Professional
CACREP Core Area:	Social and cultural diversity,Human growth and development
CACREP Specialty Area:	School counseling,Marriage, couple and family counseling,Clinical mental health counseling
Subject Headings:	College,Elementary school,Female lifespan development,Grief & loss,High school,Male lifespan development,Middle school,Relationships,Spiritual journey,Wellness
Review:	This one source provides virtually anything empirically based that a health professional, educator, researcher, experiencer, or member of the public would need to know about near-death experiences (NDEs). Research in this field has been ongoing since the phenomenon came into widespread professional and public awareness in 1975.   In each chapter of this book, a leading NDE scholar worldwide authored or co-authored a comprehensive, critical review of all research published so far on a subtopic of NDEs: the field of near-death studies, pleasurable NDEs, distressing NDEs, children’s and adolescents’ NDEs, characteristics of people who have had near-death experiences, non-Western NDEs, world religions and NDEs, veridical perception in NDEs, explanatory models for NDEs, and practical applications of research on NDEs.