Helping Grieving People - When Tears Are Not Enough A Handbook for Care Providers

Name: Helping Grieving People - When Tears Are Not Enough A Handbook for Care Providers
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ISBN: 9780415946032

ISBN-10: 0415946034

ISBN-13: 9780415946032

Edition: 2005

Authors: J. Sheppard Jeffreys

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Helping Grieving People is a training manual for care providers who will provide support and counseling to those grieving death, illness, and other losses. The author addresses grief as it affects a variety of relationships and discusses different intervention and support strategies, always cognizant of individual and cultural differences in the expression and treatment of grief. Jeffreys has established a practical approach to preparing trainee caregivers through three basic tracks: Heart, Head and Hand. The first step, Heart, calls for self discovery, freeing oneself of accumulated loss in order to focus all attention on the griever. Head emphasizes understanding the complex and dynamic…

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/27/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction


How to Use this Book


The Social and Cultural Context of Grief


The Human Grief Response: Grief and its Function


Loss and Death in the Family: Transitions From the World That Was


The Grief of Children and Adolescents - Parent Loss


The Grief of Parents: An Upside Down World! Older Adult Grief


Chronic Illness/Disability, Terminality, and Dying


Helping Grieving People: A Continuum of Care for Healing


Complications of the Human Grief Process


Case Studies


Epilogue



Suggested Readings



Organizational and Web Resources



Advanced Directive Model


References


Index