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

The death of a child has a tremendous and overwhelming impact on parents and siblings, completely altering the psychological landscape of the family. In the aftermath of such a tragedy, parents face the challenge of not only dealing with their own grief, but also that of their surviving children. How can someone attempt to cease parenting a deceased child while maintaining this role with his/her other children? Is it possible for a mother or father to effectively deal with feelings of grief and loss while simultaneously helping their surviving children?

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Is it really possible to be grateful for your husband's death? This is the message that ultimately comes over in Jane Duncan Rogers' book Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth. Told through the medium of blog posts by her husband in his last year, her own journal entries, and a heartfelt, poignant and riveting narrative, Jane invites the reader into her grief-stricken world. Where this might be harrowing, it is found to be ironic; where there might be pointlessness and despair, gifts are found, inspiring the reader find the gifts in their own life situation.

All too frequently, clinical practice consists of repeating year after year the methods learned in graduate training, occasionally seasoned by a technique learned in a continuing-education workshop. Bereavement Groups and the Role of Social Support gives clinicians what they ve been missing in other volumes: practical techniques that have a solid contemporary empirical basis. Deftly weaving together theory, research, and practice, this volume is a compendium of the latest practical thinking about bereavement support groups. Readers will learn when well-loved practices make sense and...

All too frequently, clinical practice consists of repeating year after year the methods learned in graduate training, occasionally seasoned by a technique learned in a continuing-education workshop. "Bereavement Groups and the Role of Social Support" gives clinicians what they ve been missing in other volumes: practical techniques that have a solid contemporary empirical basis. Deftly weaving together theory, research, and practice, this volume is a compendium of the latest practical thinking about bereavement support groups. Readers will learn when well-loved practices make sense and are...

Das Buch zeigt auf, welche Auswirkungen die elterliche Trauer auf die Partnerschaft hat. Es geht darum, wie das Paar den Verlust Uberlebt und wieder aus der Trauer in ein Leben auftaucht, dass Freude und Melancholie, Lachen und TrAnen, GlUck und Traurigkeit verbindet. Nicht entweder - oder, sonder sowohl - als auch. Es geht darum, aus dieser verrUckten Reise durch die Dunkelheit der Trauer mit deinem Partner zurUck zu kehren mit neu geschOpfter Hoffnung und einem vertieften VerstAndnis. Deine Beziehung kann und wird darunter leiden und dieses Buch zeigt Wege auf, dich selbst und euch...

This book is dedicated to those who want to live every moment of their life with serenity and awareness. Death is part of life, like love, like the struggle, like the dreams you have when young and the doubts you have when old. "Learning to Die" explains how to prepare yourself for this moment; to be ready to approach death with lightness and know how to help your friends and loved ones when they will meet it. Oberto Airaudi, Falco Tarassaco (1950-2013), is the founder and spiritual guide of Damanhur, Federation of Communities. A philosopher, healer, writer and painter, he actively...

Honoring the centennial of Sigmund Freud s seminal paper "Mourning and Melancholia, New Models of Bereavement Theory and Treatment: New Mourning "is a major contribution to our culture s changing view of bereavement and mourning, identifying flaws in old models and offering a new, valid and effective approach.

George Hagman and his fellow contributors bring together key psychoanalytic texts from the past 20 years, exploring contemporary research, clinical practice and model building relating to the problems of bereavement, mourning and grief. They propose changes to the asocial,...

Honoring the centennial of Sigmund Freud s seminal paper "Mourning and Melancholia, New Models of Bereavement Theory and Treatment: New Mourning "is a major contribution to our culture s changing view of bereavement and mourning, identifying flaws in old models and offering a new, valid and effective approach.

George Hagman and his fellow contributors bring together key psychoanalytic texts from the past 20 years, exploring contemporary research, clinical practice and model building relating to the problems of bereavement, mourning and grief. They propose changes to the asocial,...

Shame is a common and pervasive feature of the human response to death and other losses, yet this often goes unrecognized due to a reluctance to acknowledge and confront it. This book intends to expose shame for what it is, allowing clinicians to see that it is the central psychological force in the understanding of death and mourning. Kauffman and his fellow authors explore the psychology of shame via observation, reflection, theory, and practice in order to demonstrate the significant role it can play in our processing of grief, death, and trauma. The authors avoid defining a unified...

Saying Goodbye: My Spiritual Journey through Death and Dying dares to face the basic reality that so much of modern culture strains itself to deny: everyone who lives will die. The hope and the encouragement come, not in pretending that death will not happen, but in shaping the way in which one says "goodbye" to friends and family.

Jean C. West, who sat with her husband and her siblings as they died, draws upon both her experiences and her research to present a guide to assist all who find themselves in the position making or witnessing end-of-life goodbyes. Her advice covers the...

You're sharing the end journey of a treasured loved one in your world. You're stressed, you're sad, it's tough, you feel alone and you don't know how to best help them.

You want to be able to make the most of this time and create some precious memories. You want the journey to be as easy and comfortable as possible for them and yourself.

But where do you turn for help? What support is available for you both? How can it be made easier?

Farewell With Grace For Loved Ones was written exactly for this purpose. It supports you as you support your dying loved one.

The devastation of losing a child never quite goes away.No matter how many years separate us from the tragedy, the heartache always looms, often returning in waves, to crush and paralyze us once more. Yet at some point in the sustained nightmare of grappling with the sense of pointlessness that accompanies inconsolable grief, something seems to click faintly inside: ever so slowly, and at first with great hesitation, we seem to stumble on a source of strength to embrace another day, and to broaden our horizon in order to find a slightly, perhaps even significantly, recalibrated purpose in...