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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, co-worker, neighbour, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound loss, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to their grief.

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...

Beloved grief educator Dr Alan Wolfelt compassionately explores the common feelings of shock, anger, guilt and sadness that accompany a stillborn child, offering suggestions for expressing feelings, remembering the child and healing as a family.

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...