Kategoria BISAC: Self-Help >> Death, Grief, Bereavement

Two of the most authoritative voices on the funeral industry come together here in one volume to discuss the current state of the funeral. Through their different lenses--one as a preacher and one as a funeral director--Thomas G. Long and Thomas Lynch alternately discuss several challenges facing "the good funeral," including the commercial aspects that have led many to be suspicious of funeral directors, the sometimes tense relationship between pastors and funeral directors, the tendency of modern funerals to exclude the body from the service, and the rapid growth in cremation. The book...

"After the grief of losing her mother to cancer when Sarah Gabriel was a teenager, she had learned to appreciate "the charms of simple happiness." With a career as a journalist, a home in Oxford, England, a husband, and two young daughters, she was content. But then at age forty-four, she was diagnosed with breast cancer--the result of M18T, an inherited mutation on the "BRCA1 "gene that had taken the lives of her mother and countless female ancestors. "Eating...

Grief is a family affair. When a loved one dies, the distress reverberates throughout the immediate and extended family. Family therapy has long attended to issues of loss and grief, yet not as the dominant therapeutic paradigm. "Bereavement Care for Families" changes that: it is a practical resource for the clinician, one that draws upon the evidence supporting family approaches to bereavement care and also provides clinically oriented, strategic guidance on how to incorporate family approaches into other models. Subsequent chapters set forth a detailed, research-based therapeutic model...

When your child dies, your world is changed forever. You are thrust into an abyss of grief and darkness-a place of loneliness that many people can't understand. Author Renee Hogan Blythe lost her only son, Kristopher, when he died without warning in his sleep at age thirty. Now she shares her heartfelt story of her personal journey of grief, providing insight into what happens when a parent loses a child of any age.

So often, others have a difficult time understanding the shock and devastation that parents experience when their child dies. Telling the story of how she overcame the...

When your child dies, your world is changed forever. You are thrust into an abyss of grief and darkness-a place of loneliness that many people can't understand. Author Renee Hogan Blythe lost her only son, Kristopher, when he died without warning in his sleep at age thirty. Now she shares her heartfelt story of her personal journey of grief, providing insight into what happens when a parent loses a child of any age.

So often, others have a difficult time understanding the shock and devastation that parents experience when their child dies. Telling the story of how she overcame the...

Until the horrific car accident on New York's Taconic State Parkway that took the lives of her three beloved young daughters, Jackie Hance was an ordinary Long Island mom, fulfilled by the joyful chaos of a household bustling with life and chatter and love. After the tragedy, she was "The Taconic Mom," whose unimaginable loss embodied every parent's worst nightmare. Suddenly, her...

How can complicated grief be defined? How does it differ from normal patterns of grief and grieving? Who among the bereaved is particularly at risk? Can clinical intervention reduce complications?

Complicated Grief provides a balanced, up-to-date, state-of-the-art account of the scientific foundations surrounding the topic of complicated grief. In this book, Margaret Stroebe, Henk Schut and Jan van den Bout address the basic questions about the concept, manifestations and phenomena associated with complicated grief. They bring together researchers...

Working With the Bereaved summarizes the major themes in bereavement research and clinical work and uses the authors own cutting-edge research to show mental-health practitioners how to integrate these themes into their practice. It provides clinicians with a framework for exploring their own emotional and intellectual assumptions about loss and bereavement, and it goes on to summarize state-of-the-art thinking in the field. The heart of the book focuses on the theoretical and clinical implications of the empirically validated Two-Track Model of Bereavement, as well as a variety of...