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| CHILD'S VIEW OF GRIEF : A Guide for Parents, Teachers, & Counselors [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] Parents, teachers, and other adults can learn through this concise and caring guide to how children and adolescents grieve after someone they love dies. Exploring the six reconciliation needs of mourning, this helpful resource recognises that grieving children are especially deserving of an emotional environment of love and acceptance. Including a historical perspective on children and death, this handbook helps adults recognise the importance of empathy toward a grieving child, and provides guidelines for involving children in funeral services. These suggestions can help anyone who wants to help young people better cope with grief so that they can go on to become emotionally healthy adults themselves. { 54pp, 140x215mm, April 2005; PB, £4.99, 1879651432:9781879651432 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| COMPANIONING AT A TIME OF PERINATAL LOSS : A Guide for Nurses, Physicians, Social Workers, Chaplains & Other Bedside Caregivers [Jane Heustis RN, Marcia Meyer Jenkins RN & Alan D Wolfelt PhD] Intended for nurses, doctors, midwives, social workers, chaplains, and hospital support staff, this guide gives caring and practical advice for helping families grieve properly after losing a child at birth. As the special needs of families experiencing perinatal loss are intense and require more than just the bereavement standards in most hospitals, this handbook offers tips and suggestions for opening up communication between caregivers and families, creating a compassionate bedside environment, and helping with mourning rituals. Encouraging continual grief support, these specific companioning strategies can help ease the pain of this most sensitive situation. { 153pp, 140x215mm, May 2005; PB, £13.50, 1879651475:9781879651470 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| COMPANIONING THE BEREAVED : A Soulful Guide for Caregivers [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] Renowned author and educator Alan Wolfelt redefines the role of the grief counsellor in this guide for caregivers. His new model for 'companioning' the bereaved gives a viable alternative to the limitations of the medical establishment, encouraging counsellors and other caregivers to aspire to a more compassionate philosophy. This approach argues that grief need no longer be defined, diagnosed, and treated as an illness but rather should be an acknowledgement of an event that forever changes a person's worldview. Through careful listening and observation, the caregiver learns to support mourners and help them help themselves heal. { 192pp, 155x230mm, October 2005; HB, £19.99, 1879651416:9781879651418 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| COMPANIONING THE DYING : A Soulful Guide for Caregivers [Greg Yoder] This guide for counsellors and lay caregivers explores the art of caring for the dying and their families. Based on the tenets first articulated by renowned grief educator Dr Alan Wolfelt, this respectful and gratifying guide to care-giving includes personal accounts that debunk the myth of the 'good death' and teach caregivers to find the transformative potential of every moment in every experience. Written with wit and illustrated throughout with the author's poetry and artwork, it includes advice for comforting patients and their families as well as advice for dealing with the internal stress common to the profession. The guidance provided will help counsellors feel affirmed in their abilities to 'be with' the dying and support them and their families. { 148pp, 155x230mm, March 2005; HB, £19.99, 1879651424:9781879651425 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| CREATING MEANINGFUL FUNERAL EXPERIENCES : A Guide for Caregivers, Second Edition [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] Written in response to the current trend to deritualise death and funeral ceremonies, this book explores the ways in which caregivers and clergy can create heartfelt ceremonies that help the bereaved begin to heal. Explaining the purposes behind rituals, it reviews the many ways these have changed over the years and argues for a return to authentic, personalised, and meaningful funeral ceremonies. The qualities in caregivers that make them effective funeral planners are examined, and practical ideas for creating authentic, personalised, and meaningful funeral ceremonies are provided. Trends toward the prevalence of cremation are discussed, as are trends away from viewing and spending time with the body of the deceased. { 88pp, 215x215mm, October 2003; PB, £8.99, 1879651386:9781879651388 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| FUNERAL HOME CUSTOMER SERVICE A-Z : Creating Exceptional Experiences for Today's Families [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] From personalising memorials and visitations to aftercare for the bereaved, this thoughtful manual helps owners and staff of funeral homes and cemeteries better understand their customers and the special needs in tending to the grieving and burial process. Explaining the evolution and prospects of today's ""experience economy"" customer, this motivational resource offers practical guidance for exceeding expectations and provides suggestions for service issues particular to funeral homes, such as first impressions, telephone skills, competition, and arrangements. With the more than 70 issues addressed, funeral professionals will be able to meet and exceed the sensitive necessities of families in pain. { 233pp, 155x230mm, April 2005; PB, £16.99, 1879651440:9781879651449 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| HEALING A SPOUSE'S GRIEVING HEART : 100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband or Wife Dies [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] Helping widows and widowers to learn how to cope with the grief of losing their helpmate, their lover, and perhaps their financial provider, this guide shows them how to find continued meaning in life when doing so seems difficult. Bereaved spouses will find advice on when and how to dispose of their mate's belongings, dealing with their children, and redefining their role with friends and family. Suggestions are provided for elderly mourners, young widows and widowers, unmarried lovers, and same-sex partners. The information and comfort offered apply to individuals whose spouse died recently or long ago. { 128pp, 155x230mm, November 2003; PB, £7.99, 1879651378:9781879651371 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| HEALING GRIEF AT WORK : 100 Practical Ideas After Your Workplace Is Touched by Loss [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] With a gentle and considerate style, this handbook explores what happens when grief and the workplace meet, and the drastic effects of grieving on employees, their performance, and the overall workplace environment. Touching on the different kinds of grief workers can experience, such as death, divorce, and layoffs, the effective ways to channel grief during the workday, how to support co-workers who mourn, participation in group memorials, and negotiating appropriate bereavement leave, this concise and practical resource gives both ideas for the mourner and the mourner's co-workers. A special introduction for employers, owners, managers, and human resource personnel addresses the economic impact of grief in the workplace and provides practical and cost effective ideas for maintaining morale and creating a productive yet compassionate work environment. { 128pp, 140x215mm, April 2005; PB, £7.99, 1879651459:9781879651456 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| HEALING THE ADULT CHILD'S GRIEVING HEART : 100 Practical Ideas After Your Parent Dies [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] Offering heartfelt and simple advice, this book provides realistic suggestions and relief for an adult child whose parent has died. Practical advice is presented in a one-topic-per-page format that does not overwhelm with psychological language, but provides small, immediate ways to understand and reconcile grief. Some of the action-oriented tips include writing down memories, completing a task or goal left unfinished by your deceased parent, or honoring the parent's birthday. In addition the common challenges that face grieving adult children, such as helping the surviving parent, resolving sibling conflicts, and legal and financial issues, are addressed clearly and concisely. { 128pp, 155x230mm, September 2002; PB, £7.99, 1879651319:9781879651319 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| HEALING YOUR GRIEVING HEART JOURNAL FOR TEENS [Alan D Wolfelt PhD & Megan E Wolfelt] In light of how difficult it is just to survive the teenage years, the grieving process can be especially difficult and overwhelming for teenagers. This diary affirms the grieving teen's journey and offers gentle, healing guidance. In order to sort through their confusing feelings and thoughts, teens are prompted to explore simple, open-ended questions. Teens are encouraged to write what they miss about the person who died, the specific feelings that have been most difficult since the death, or the things they wish they had said to the person before they died. { 118pp, 155x230mm, September 2002; PB, £7.99, 1879651335:9781879651333 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| HEALING YOUR HOLIDAY GRIEF : 100 Practical Ideas for Blending Mourning & Celebration During the Holiday Season [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] With compassionate insight, this handbook helps those in mourning through what can be the hardest time of year -- the holiday season. Mourners will better understand their complex emotions after reading about such topics as honouring thoughts and feelings, creating new traditions, finding ways to de-stress, and incorporating healing rituals into the holiday season. This book's practical wisdom also covers issues such as decision-making during the holidays and coping with the blending of mourning and celebration. All of the answers and advice in this guide are provided in the popular 100 ideas format that features one idea per page, allowing readers to fully absorb each suggestion. { 128pp, 140x215mm, December 2005; PB, £7.99, 1879651483:9781879651487 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| HEALING YOUR TRAUMATIZED HEART : 100 Practical Ideas After Someone You Love Dies a Sudden, Violent Death [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] Dealing with grief in a practical manner, this guide offers compassionate tips for those affected by a traumatic death. Included are topics such as coping with family stress, expressing feelings of hurt and anger, dealing with hurtful comments, and exploring feelings of guilt. Each of the 100 suggestions is aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void in order to help survivors begin their lives again. Some of the tips include understanding the special characteristics of trauma grief, planting a tree in memory of the person who died, and making connections with others affected by a similar death. { 128pp, 155x230mm, September 2002; PB, £7.99, 1879651327:9781879651326 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| HELPING PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES MOURN : Practical Rituals for Caregivers [Marc A Markell PhD & Alan D Wolfelt PhD] Frequently, people with developmental disabilities are excluded from bereavement ceremonies when a loved one or friend dies, therefore not receiving the special care needed for comprehending their own feelings of loss. Focusing on creating mourning rituals for special needs people, this guide offers specific rituals and techniques for caregivers to use while helping explain death and dying. With more than 20 examples such as the use of pictures and storytelling or drawing and music, these practical tools can substantially lend to the understanding of grief and sadness for intellectually and developmentally disabled adults and adolescents. { 82pp, 130x205mm, June 2005; PB, £9.50, 1879651467:9781879651463 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| JOURNEY THROUGH GRIEF : Reflections on Healing [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] This spiritual companion for mourners affirms their need to mourn and invites them to journey through their very unique and personal grief. Detailed are the six needs that all mourners must yield to and eventually embrace if they are to go on to find continued meaning in life and living, including the need to remember the deceased loved one and the need for support from others. Short explanations of each mourning need are followed by brief, spiritual passages that, when read slowly and reflectively, help mourners work through their unique thoughts and feelings. Also included in this revised edition are journaling sections for mourners to write out their personal responses to each of the six needs. { 167pp, 155x230mm, September 2003; PB, £11.50, 1879651343:9781879651340 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF THE GHOSTS OF YOUR GRIEF : A Guide for Life, Living & Loving [Alan D Wolfelt, PhD] Explaining how multitudes of North Americans are carrying the pain of all types of loss -- not just the deaths of loved ones but also the loss of a spouse through divorce, children who leave home, and the decline of health as they age or get sick -- this balanced resource empowers mourners and grief counsellors to turn grief into an experience to be learned from. Defining the varieties of heartache and its consequences, this effective guide explores how to inventory, understand, embrace, and reconcile one's accumulated sorrow through a five-phase "catch-up" mourning process. Readers will learn to use a spiritual and holistic approach to examine and integrate the ignored loss from their pasts, so that they can go on to live fuller, more balanced lives. { 96pp, 125x210mm, September 2007; PB, £9.50, 1879651513:9781879651517 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| TRANSCENDING DIVORCE : Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope & Healing Your Heart [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] With empathy and wisdom, this resource provides 10 essential touchstones for hope and healing when enduring a divorce while simultaneously dispelling common misconceptions associated with divorce. Stressing the importance of the need to fully mourn the loss of a relationship before moving on, this compassionate guide -- written with a warm, direct tone -- will help divorcees reconcile and discover a happy, healthy life. An appendix with useful meeting plans for group sessions is also included. { 128pp, 140x215mm, September 2008; PB, £9.99, 1879651505:9781879651500 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| UNDERSTANDING YOUR GRIEF : Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope & Healing Your Heart [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss. Also explored are the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the many normal thoughts and feelings mourners might have. Questions of spirituality and religion are addressed as well. The rights of mourners to be compassionate with themselves, to lean on others for help, and to trust in their ability to heal are upheld. Journaling sections encourage mourners to articulate their unique thoughts and feelings. { 168pp, 155x230mm, February 2004; PB, £9.99, 1879651351:9781879651357 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| UNDERSTANDING YOUR GRIEF JOURNAL : Exploring the Ten Essential Touchstones [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] This companion workbook to "Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart" is designed to help mourners explore the many facets of their unique grief through journalling. Ten essential touchstones for mourners are covered, including being open to the presence of loss, dispelling misconceptions about grief, embracing the uniqueness of grief, seeking reconciliation, and reaching out for help. Journalers are asked specific questions about their feelings of grief as they relate to the ten essential touchstones and are provided with writing space for their reflections. { 152pp, 155x230mm, April 2004; HB, £9.99, 1879651394:9781879651395 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| UNDERSTANDING YOUR GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP GUIDE : Starting & Leading a Bereavement Support Group [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] This guide to facilitating support groups offers bereavement caregivers practical strategies for creating and maintaining a productive environment for mourners. Logistical considerations such as setting up and publicising a new group are discussed, as is the importance of pre-screening new members. Tips for creating a set of ground rules are provided, and the pros and cons of creating structured and unstructured meetings are considered. Responding constructively to problems in the group is also discussed, with helpful, time-proven models provided for evaluating group and individual progress. { 102pp, 180x215mm, June 2004; PB, £13.50, 1879651408:9781879651401 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| WHEN YOUR PET DIES : A Guide to Mourning, Remembering & Healing [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] Affirming a pet owner's struggle with grief when his or her pet dies, this book helps mourners to understand why their feelings are so strong and helps them overcome the loss. Included are practical suggestions for mourning and ideas for remembering and memorialising one's pet. Among the issues covered are understanding the many emotions experienced after the death of a pet; understanding why grief for pets is unique; pet funerals and burial or cremation; celebrating and remembering the life of one's pet; coping with feelings about euthanasia; helping children understand the death of their pet; and things to keep in mind before getting another pet. REVIEW: "A compassionate, practical guide for pet lovers." -- Parents Express. { 80pp, 155x230mm, April 2004; PB, £6.99, 187965136X:9781879651364 , IPG (Companion Press) } |
| WILDERNESS OF GRIEF : Finding Your Way [Alan D Wolfelt PhD] Based on the author's previous guides to a 10-touchstone method of grief therapy, this book takes an inspirational approach to the material, presenting the idea of wilderness as a sustained metaphor for grief -- and likening the death of a loved one to the experience of being wrenched from normal life and dropped down in the middle of nowhere. Feeling lost and afraid in this uncharted territory, people are initially overwhelmed, the book explains, but they begin to make their way through the new landscape by searching for trail markers -- or touchstones -- until they emerge as intrepid travellers climbing up out of despair. The touchstones for each step are described in short chapters such as "Embrace the Uniqueness of Your Loss", "Recognise You Are Not Crazy", and "Appreciate Your Transformation". { 110pp, 145x185mm, September 2007; HB, £10.99, 1879651521:9781879651524 , IPG (Companion Press) } |