Grief is a journey
Subtitle: finding your path through loss
By: Dr. Kenneth J. Doka
Edition: Large Print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print lifestyles; Thorndike Press large print lifestyles
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Waterville, Maine
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
ISBN-13: 9781410491312
Subjects: Grief; Death; Loss (Psychology); Large type books; Chagrin; Mort; Perte (Psychologie); Livres en gros caractères; Deaths; Large print books; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement
Description: There is no "one-size-fits-all" way to cope with loss. Grief Is a Journey is the first book to overturn the prevailing, often judgmental, ideas about grief, and replace them with a hopeful, inclusive, personalized, and research-backed approach.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-477) and index.
Table of contents: title: The journey of grief. The myths and realities of grief ; The experience of grief ; Your journey with grief: understanding the process ; Your style of grieveing, questionnaire: grief inventory; title: The many losses in life. When your spouse dies ; When a child dies ; When a parent dies ; The loss of a sibling in adult life; title: The unacknowledged losses of life: disenfranchised grief. Broken bonds: when relationships are not recognized ; Does anyone understand? Unacknowledged loss ; Acknowledging the disenfranchised; title: Helping yourself, and others. Making rituals meaningful ; When self-help is not enough ; Growing in and through grief.