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With this compassionate book by respected grief counselor and
educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt, readers will find simplified and
suitable methods for talking to children and teenagers about
sensitive topics with an emphasis on the subject of death. Honest
but child-appropriate language is advocated, and various wording
and levels of explanation are suggested for different ages when
discussing topics such as death in general, suicide, homicide,
accidental death, the death of a child, terminal illness, pet
death, funerals, and cremation. An ideal book for parents,
caregivers, and counselors looking for an easy resource when
talking to youths about death, this book can be used for any
setting, religious or otherwise.
Since its debut thirty years ago, this favorite by one of the
world’s most beloved grief counselors has found a place in the
homes and hearts of hundreds of thousands of mourners across the
globe. Filled with compassion and hope, Understanding Your Grief
helps you understand and befriend your painful, complex thoughts
and feelings after the death of someone loved. Befriending grief
may sound counterintuitive, but actually, your grief is your love
for the person who died in a different form, and like that love,
it’s also natural and necessary. Perhaps above all, Understanding
Your Grief is practical. It’s built on Dr. Wolfelt’s Ten
Touchstones, which are basic principles to learn and actions to
take to help yourself engage with your grief and create momentum
toward healing. This second edition maintains the content of the
first edition but builds on it by adding concise wisdom on new
topics such as the myth of closure, complicated and traumatic
grief, grief overload, unmourned grief, loneliness, the power of
ritual, and more. Excellent as an empathetic handbook for anyone in
mourning as well as a text for support groups, Understanding Your
Grief pairs with a guided journal.
Intended for nurses, doctors, midwives, social workers, chaplains,
and hospital support staff, this guide gives caring and practical
advice for helping families grieve properly after losing a child at
birth. As the special needs of families experiencing perinatal loss
are intense and require more than just the bereavement standards in
most hospitals, this handbook offers tips and suggestions for
opening up communication between caregivers and families, creating
a compassionate bedside environment, and helping with mourning
rituals. Encouraging continual grief support, these specific
companioning strategies can help ease the pain of this most
sensitive situation.
Based on Dr. Wolfelt's unique and highly regarded philosophy of
"companioning" versus treating mourners, this self-care guide for
professional and lay grief caregivers emphasizes the importance of
taking good care of oneself as a precursor to taking good care of
others. Bereavement care is draining work, and remaining empathetic
to the painful struggles of mourners, death, and dying, day in and
day out, makes caregivers highly susceptible to burnout. This book
demonstrates how caring for oneself first allows one to be a more
effective caregiver to others. Through the advice, suggestions, and
practices directed specifically to caregiving situations and needs,
caregivers will learn not to lose sight of caring for themselves as
they care for others.
Grief is always difficult, but if yours feels especially painful,
stuck, or complex, you may be experiencing complicated grief.
Complicated grief is not an illness or disorder. It’s simply
normal grief that’s been made more challenging by circumstances
that overwhelm the person in mourning. If someone you love has died
of suicide, homicide, or accidental causes; if the death was
violent or premature or ambiguous; if you are struggling with
additional life issues right now, such as health challenges
(physical or mental), family problems, or financial stress; if your
relationship with the person who died was extremely close or
troubled; if you have suffered several losses in quick
succession—this concise guide is for you. In this compassionate
resource by one of the world’s most beloved grief counselors,
you’ll learn how complicated grief is different and what you can
do to soften and eventually reconcile it. You’ll inventory the
reasons your grief is complicated. You’ll learn the importance of
engaging with and expressing your grief. And you’ll find hope for
your healing. There is a path through and beyond the wilderness of
complicated grief. It’s more arduous than most, but to li
After a significant loss, grief is an everyday experience. Bit by
bit, these one-page-a-day readings will help you feel supported and
muster the courage and hope you need to make it through the day.
Whether you’re choosing this book as a follow-up to Understanding
Your Grief or as a way to engage with the teachings in a different
format, you’ll find a combination of classic content mixed with
new ideas and insights. Reading just one page each day will help
you sustain hope and heal your heart.
For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one,
coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information
about coping with such a profound loss, this compassionate guide
explores the unique responses inherent to their grief. Using
the metaphor of the wilderness, the book introduces 10 touchstones
to assist the survivor in this naturally complicated and
particularly painful journey. The touchstones include opening to
the presence of loss, embracing the uniqueness of grief,
understanding the six needs of mourning, reaching out for help, and
seeking reconciliation over resolution. Learning to identify and
rely on each of these touchstones will bring about hope and
healing.
This comprehensive guide to helping grieving children offers a
holistic view of grief as a normal, natural process. It explores
the ways in which bereaved children can not only heal but also grow
through their grief, and provides the six needs of mourning and
counseling fundamentals and techniques for caregivers. Also
included are explorations of how a grieving child thinks, feels,
and mourns; what makes each child's grief unique; and ideas to help
grieving adolescents.
More and more people are considering a career in nursing or
healthcare, but the thought of undertaking an academic degree at
university can be intimidating. Whether you are moving straight
from school or college or have been away from education for some
time, Getting Ready for your Nursing Degree is essential
preparation for anyone considering becoming or about to become a
nursing student. It looks at all aspects of university work in a
straightforward way and provides advice, examples and activities
designed to help you get the most out of classes, research and
assessments, from your first lecture right through to sitting exams
and learning on placement. Designed with nursing students in mind,
this small but perfectly formed guide is tailored to help you
develop the skills you will need not only for your course but for
your career and lifelong learning as a registered healthcare
practitioner.
Affirming a pet owner's struggle with grief when his or her pet
dies, this book helps mourners understand why their feelings are so
strong and helps them overcome the loss. Included are practical
suggestions for mourning and ideas for remembering and
memorializing one's pet. Among the issues covered are understanding
the many emotions experienced after the death of a pet;
understanding why grief for pets is unique; pet funerals and burial
or cremation; celebrating and remembering the life of one's pet;
coping with feelings about euthanasia; helping children understand
the death of their pet; and things to keep in mind before getting
another pet.
Grief overload is what you feel when you experience too many
significant losses all at once, in a relatively short period of
time, or cumulatively. In addition to the deaths of loved ones,
such losses can also include divorce, estrangement, illness,
relocation, job changes, and more. Our minds and hearts have enough
trouble coping with a single loss, so when the losses pile up, the
grief often seems especially chaotic and defeating. The good news
is that through intentional, active mourning, you can and will find
your way back to hope and healing. This compassionate guide will
show you how.
Explaining how multitudes of North Americans are carrying the pain
of all types of loss -- not just the deaths of loved ones but also
the loss of a spouse through divorce, children who leave home, and
the decline of health as they age or get sick -- this balanced
resource empowers mourners and grief counsellors to turn grief into
an experience to be learned from. Defining the varieties of
heartache and its consequences, this effective guide explores how
to inventory, understand, embrace, and reconcile one's accumulated
sorrow through a five-phase "catch-up" mourning process. Readers
will learn to use a spiritual and holistic approach to examine and
integrate the ignored loss from their pasts, so that they can go on
to live fuller, more balanced lives.
We don’t only experience grief after a loss—we often experience
it before. If someone we love is seriously ill, or if we’re
concerned about upcoming hardships of any kind, we naturally begin
to grieve right now. This process of anticipatory grief is normal,
but it can also be confusing and painful. Life is change, and
change is hard. This book will help see you through.
This classic resource helps guide the bereaved person through the
loss of a loved one, and provides an opportunity to learn to live
with and work through the personal grief process.
Dealing with grief in a practical manner, this guide offers
compassionate tips for those affected by a traumatic death.
Included are topics such as coping with family stress, expressing
feelings of hurt and anger, dealing with hurtful comments, and
exploring feelings of guilt. Each of the 100 suggestions is aimed
at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void in order
to help survivors begin their lives again. Some of the tips include
understanding the special characteristics of trauma grief, planting
a tree in memory of the person who died, and making connections
with others affected by a similar death.
Partly a counselling model and partly an explanation of true
empathy, this handbook explores the ways companionship eases grief.
For caretakers who work with grieving people or for friends and
family just hoping to stay close, 11 tenets are outlined for
mourner-led care. These simple rules call for understanding another
person's pain, listening with the heart rather than the head, not
filling up every minute with words, respecting confusion and
disorder, and relying on curiosity rather than expertise.
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
This comprehensive handbook provides a solid foundation in helping
skills related to successful funeral service practice.
You've spent most of your adult life focused on the care and
raising of your children, and now they're leaving. For you and for
them, this major transition is often challenging in many ways. You
may feel surprised at the power of your grief—a confusing mixture
of sadness, hope, emptiness, fear, excitement, and other emotions
all at once. This book by one of the world's most beloved grief
counselors helps parents understand their normal and necessary
empty nester grief. The 100 practical tips and activities are
designed to help you acknowledge and express your feelings of loss,
foster love and respect, and, over time, find ways to re-instill
your life with meaning. Advice is also offered for nurturing a
marriage or partnership through this challenging time.
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
Navigating the challenging journey that families and friends of
Alzheimer’s patients must endure, this heartfelt guide reveals
how their struggle is as complex and drawn out as the illness
itself. Confronting their natural but difficult process of grieving
and mourning, the study covers the inevitable feelings of shock,
sadness, anger, guilt, and relief, illustrating the initial
reactions people commonly feel from the moment of the dementia’s
onset. Healthy and productive ways to acknowledge and express these
feelings are suggested along with 100 tips and activities that
fulfill the emotional, spiritual, cognitive, physical, and social
needs of those who care about someone afflicted with this
debilitating disease. Special consideration is also shown for
caregivers, whose grief is often complicated by the demanding
physical attention that patients require.
This comprehensive handbook provides a solid foundation in helping
skills related to successful funeral service practice.
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