Jane Heustis Marcia Meyer Jenkins Alan D., Wolfelt
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...
Intended for nurses, doctors, midwives, social workers, chaplains, and hospital support staff, this guide gives caring and practical advice for helpin...
With compassionate insight, this handbook helps those in mourning through what can be the hardest time of yearthe holiday season. Mourners will better understand their complex emotions after reading about such topics as honoring thoughts and feelings, creating new traditions, finding ways to de-stress, and incorporating healing rituals into the holiday season. This book's practical wisdom also covers issues such as decision-making during the holidays and coping with the blending of mourning and celebration. All of the answers and advice in this guide are provided in the popular 100 ideas...
With compassionate insight, this handbook helps those in mourning through what can be the hardest time of yearthe holiday season. Mourners will better...
With empathy and wisdom, this resource provides 10 essential touchstones for hope and healing when enduring a divorce while simultaneously dispelling common misconceptions associated with divorce. Stressing the importance of the need to fully mourn the loss of a relationship before moving on, this compassionate guide--written with a warm, direct tone--will help divorcees reconcile and discover a happy, healthy life. An appendix with useful meeting plans for group sessions is also included.
With empathy and wisdom, this resource provides 10 essential touchstones for hope and healing when enduring a divorce while simultaneously dispelling ...
Explaining how multitudes of North Americans are carrying the pain of all types of lossnot just the deaths of loved ones but also the loss of a spouse through divorce, children who leave home, and the decline of health asthey age or get sickthis balanced resource empowersmourners and grief counselorstoturn grief into anexperience to belearned from.Defining the varieties ofheartache and its consequences, this effective guide explores how to inventory, understand, embrace, and reconcile one's accumulatedsorrow through a five-phase "catch-up" mourning process.Readerswill learn to use a spiritual...
Explaining how multitudes of North Americans are carrying the pain of all types of lossnot just the deaths of loved ones but also the loss of a spouse...
Based on the author's previous guides to a 10-touchstone method of grief therapy, this book takes an inspirational approach to the material, presenting the idea of wilderness as a sustained metaphor for grief--and likening the death of a loved one to the experience of being wrenched from normal life and dropped down in the middle of nowhere. Feeling lost and afraid in this uncharted territory, people are initially overwhelmed, the book explains, but they begin to make their way through the new landscape by searching for trail markers--or touchstones--until they emerge as intrepid travelers...
Based on the author's previous guides to a 10-touchstone method of grief therapy, this book takes an inspirational approach to the material, presentin...
Offers 100 practical ideas to help understand and accept the passing of a sibling in order to practice self-healing. This title defines the principles of grief and mourning. Whether a sibling has died as a young or older adult or the death was sudden or anticipated, it provides a healthy approach to dealing with the aftermath.
Offers 100 practical ideas to help understand and accept the passing of a sibling in order to practice self-healing. This title defines the principles...
Explores the ways companionship eases grief. Suitable for caretakers who work with grieving people or for friends and family just hoping to stay close, this book outlines 11 tenets for mourner-led care.
Explores the ways companionship eases grief. Suitable for caretakers who work with grieving people or for friends and family just hoping to stay close...
Presents an introduction on the role of spirituality in grief. This practical mourning guide suggests activities based on meditation, prayer, yoga, and contemplative solitude to help with feelings of despair.
Presents an introduction on the role of spirituality in grief. This practical mourning guide suggests activities based on meditation, prayer, yoga, an...
Offers information about coping for those who have experienced the suicide of a loved one, co-worker, neighbour, or acquaintance. This book explores the responses inherent to their grief. Using the metaphor of the wilderness, it introduces 10 touchstones to assist the survivor in this naturally complicated and particularly painful journey.
Offers information about coping for those who have experienced the suicide of a loved one, co-worker, neighbour, or acquaintance. This book explores t...
Helps grievers explore the 10 useful touchstones for finding hope and healing. This book contains exercises that recall the content of the book and ask corresponding questions about the survivor's unique grief journey.
Helps grievers explore the 10 useful touchstones for finding hope and healing. This book contains exercises that recall the content of the book and as...