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Alan D Wolfelt
This essential resource has long offered compassion and hope to mourners torn apart by the suicide of someone loved. Understanding Your Suicide Grief will help you understand the traumatic complications…
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When we' re grieving the death of someone loved, we need the support and compassion of our fellow human beings. Grief support groups provide a wonderful opportunity for this very…
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When someone we care about experiences a major life loss, for many of us it' s instinctive to want to help. After all, we feel awful about what happened as…
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Grief hurts. While it' s natural to want to avoid pain, healing after a loss requires engaging with and expressing the pain. The only way to fully engage with our…
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You were one of the lucky ones. You found a partner or friend with whom you shared a deeply profound connection. You understood, opened fully to, served, and challenged one…
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An estimated eight percent of Americans are thought to be suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder at any given time. Many are victims of or witnesses to violence. Others have been…
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Compassionate advice and simple activities to help you through your grief after miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, or other early pregnancy loss –Cover.
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A new approach to understanding PTSD as a form of grief rather than a medical disorder Have you ever felt that something essential was missing from your post-traumatic stress disorder…
After someone you love dies, each day can be a struggle. But each day, you can also find comfort and understanding in this daily companion. With one brief entry for…
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Addressing the significant loss that divorce represents for children, this title helps adults to guide children through the natural grief that accompanies the experience. Contending that children can continue to…
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Addressing the inevitable grief that accompanies the loss of a loved one, this encouraging and supportive reference prevents mourners from becoming tangled in a web of despair, and shows how…
Presents an introduction on the role of spirituality in grief. This practical mourning guide suggests activities based on meditation, prayer, yoga, and contemplative solitude to help with feelings of despair.
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This comprehensive handbook provides a solid foundation in helping skills related to successful funeral service practice.
First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Confronting the ‘little griefs’ that can occur in the course of a lifetime, this handbook seeks to relieve the inevitable burden of loss. Taking the ‘wilderness experience’ into account, it…
First Published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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…
We don’t only experience grief after a loss-we often experience it before. If someone we love is seriously ill, or if we’re concerned about upcoming hardships of any kind, we…
Loss is always hard, but when someone you love dies of an accidental drug overdose, the grief that follows can be especially painful and challenging. Readers will learn ideas for…
When you want to have a baby but are struggling with fertility challenges, it’s normal to experience a range and mixture of ever-changing feelings. These feelings are a natural and…
Ironically, if you are lonely, you’re not alone. People the world over are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness. In the US, one in five of us reports feeling lonely, and…
If someone you love died by homicide, your grief is naturally traumatic and complicated. Not only might your grief journey be intertwined with painful criminal justice proceedings, you may also…
When someone you care about has suffered the death of a loved one or another significant loss, you want to let them know you care. But it can be hard…
Human life is a series of attachments, transitions, and losses. We explore, we connect, we love. We grow, we change, we lose.
Over and over on our journey through life…
Grief is always difficult, but if yours feels especially painful, stuck, or complex, you may be experiencing complicated grief. Complicated grief is not an illness or disorder. It’s simply normal…
When we’re grieving, we need relief from our pain. Today we often turn to technology for distraction when what we really need is the opposite: generous doses of nature. Studies…
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.
Grief overload is what you feel when you experience too many significant losses all at once, in a relatively short period of time, or cumulatively. In addition to the deaths…
This classic resource helps guide the bereaved person through the loss of a loved one, and provides an opportunity to learn to live with and work through the personal grief…
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For those who grieve after a homicide, suicide or accidental death. –Cover.
Someone you love has died. This is probably a very sad and very hard time for you. The painful thoughts and feelings you have inside are called grief. You need…
This heartfelt manual is an indispensable and easily referenced resource for grieving grandparents, offering them a way forward after the death of a grandchild. Whether they were close to their…
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When your family, neighborhood, city, or area of the country is affected by a natural disaster, it’s normal and necessary to feel grief and the traumatic experience of actually witnessing…
With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Age: 11 - 17
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…
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Based on Dr. Wolfelt’s unique and highly regarded philosophy of companioning versus treating mourners, this self-care guide for professional and lay grief caregivers emphasizes the importance of taking good care…
An in-depth guide to the counseling process and establishing a trusting relationship with clients– from a bestselling author and grieving expert Helping people in grief means being an empathetic companion–…
Teaches adults how to guide and nurture grieving kids.
Designed to complement the clergy and funeral director’s role in the funeral planning process, this book walks families through the many decisions they will make at the time of a…
A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one.
Renowned author and educator Alan Wolfelt redefines the role of the grief counselor in this guide for caregivers. His new model for companioning the bereaved gives a viable alternative to…
Explores what happens when grief and the workplace meet, and the drastic effects of grieving on employees, their performance, and the overall workplace environment. This book provides practical and cost…
Helps mourners and grief counsellors to turn grief into an experience to be learned from. Defining the varieties of heartache and its consequences, this guide explores how to inventory, understand…
Addressing a significant loss in life, this book enables those who have experienced a divorce to mourn sufficiently and begin to heal. Covering the 10 touchstones of the healing process…
