Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Grief & Loss

A Short Course in Happiness After Loss brings to us a powerful intersection of the science of positive psychology and the wisdom necessary to thrive when facing life's harshest moments. In poetic, compassionate and yet fearless language, Sirois traverses the territories we most fear--death, exile, disease--and carefully lights pathways toward a happiness that includes the scars of our suffering and the bounty and goodness present within our world. Her work offers each of us, no matter the trials of our lives, a template for rising through pain into a steady, resilient and open heart, one...

Terrie Curry spent many years as a financial analyst working in a world of numbers. Yet an inner questioning had always moved her to explore the limits beyond linear thinking. It was her experiences volunteering with hospice patients, and then an amazing encounter with a miraculous little boy, where Curry gained insight into this realm beyond our everyday comprehension. Those very experiences aided her through her husband's health crisis and death; the power of our connection beyond words guided her through the loss and its aftermath. She writes now to share her quest for insight, and to...

When a loved one dies, the pain of loss can feel unbearable--especially in the case of a traumatizing death that leaves us shouting, "NO " with every fiber of our body. The process of grieving can feel wild and nonlinear--and often lasts for much longer than other people, the nonbereaved, tell us it should.

Organized into fifty-two short chapters, Bearing the Unbearable is a companion for life's most difficult times, revealing how grief can open our hearts to...

Counseling and group guidance are differentiated, and clear, definitive guides that will help the counselor determine when he/she should use counseling or when he/she should use group guidance are offered.

The important distinction between counseling and psychotherapy is made, with considerable reference to the judgments of several authorities on this question.

Ethics of counseling are discussed. This is a vital area for counseling, because unless an occupation determines ethical standards which are honored by its practitioners, it cannot justify the claim that it is a...