Helping Grieving People - When Tears Are Not Enough: A Handbook for Care Providers, 2nd Edition (Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement)

Helping Grieving People – When Tears Are Not Enough is a handbook for care providers who provide service, support and counseling to those grieving death, illness, and other losses. This book is also an excellent text for academic courses as well as for staff development training. 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 grief care providers through three basic tracks. The first track: Heart – calls for self-discovery, freeing oneself of accumulated loss in order to focus all attention on the griever. Second track: Head – emphasizes understanding the complex and dynamic phenomena of human grief. Third track: Hands – stresses the caregiver's actual intervention, and speaks to lay and professional levels of skill, as well as the various approaches for healing available. Accompanying these three motifs, the Handbook discusses the social and cultural contexts of grief as applied to various populations of grievers as well as the underlying psychological basis of human grief. Throughout the book, Jeffreys presents the role of the caregiver as an Exquisite Witness to the journey of grief and pain of bereaved family and friends, and also to the path taken by dying persons and their families. The second edition of Helping Grieving People remains true to the approach that has been so well received in the original volume. It includes updated research findings and addresses new information and developments in the field of loss, grief and bereavement. TITLE......Page 10 COPYRIGHT......Page 11 CONTENTS......Page 14 SERIES EDITOR FOREWORD......Page 16 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION......Page 18 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION......Page 20 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 22 HOW TO USE THIS BOOK......Page 24 CHAPTER 1 THE EXQUISITE WITNESS GRIEF CARE PROVIDER......Page 26 CHAPTER 2 THE SOCIAL–CULTURAL INFLUENCE ON GRIEF EXPERIENCE......Page 34 CHAPTER 3 THE HUMAN GRIEF RESPONSE: ORIGIN AND FUNCTION......Page 62 CHAPTER 4 LOSS AND DEATH IN THE FAMILY......Page 106 CHAPTER 5 THE GRIEF OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS......Page 140 CHAPTER 6 THE GRIEF OF PARENTS: AN UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD......Page 168 CHAPTER 7 OLDER ADULT GRIEF......Page 208 CHAPTER 8 CHRONIC ILLNESS/DISABILITY, TERMINALITY, AND DYING......Page 230 CHAPTER 9 HELPING GRIEVING PEOPLE: A CONTINUUM OF CARE FOR HEALING......Page 276 CHAPTER 10 COMPLICATIONS OF THE HUMAN GRIEF PROCESS......Page 320 CHAPTER 11 CASE STUDIES......Page 358 EPILOGUE......Page 372 APPENDIX A: ORGANIZATION RESOURCES......Page 374 APPENDIX B: ADVANCE MEDICAL DIRECTIVE......Page 378 REFERENCES......Page 390 INDEX......Page 404 The exquisite witness grief care provider The social-cultural influence on grief experience The human grief response : origin and function Loss and death in the family The grief of children and adolescents 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.