Understanding Your Suicide Grief

Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

Alan D Wolfelt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

194 Seiten

2009
Companion Press,US (Verlag)
978-1-879651-58-6 (ISBN)

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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 metaphor of the wilderness, it introduces 10 touchstones to assist the survivor in this naturally complicated and particularly painful journey.

For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound loss, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to their grief. Using the metaphor of the wilderness, the book introduces 10 touchstones to assist the survivor in this naturally complicated and particularly painful journey. The touchstones include opening to the presence of loss, embracing the uniqueness of grief, understanding the six needs of mourning, reaching out for help, and seeking reconciliation over resolution. Learning to identify and rely on each of these touchstones will bring about hope and healing.

Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD, is a grief counselor and the director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition. He is the author of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series, The Journey Through Grief, Transcending Divorce, and Understanding Your Grief. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Foreword; Introduction & Welcome; Touchstone One: Open to the Presence of Your Loss; Touchstone Two: Dispel the Misconceptions About Suicide & Grief & Mourning; Touchstone Three: Explore the Uniqueness of Your Suicide Grief; Touchstone Four: Explore Your Feelings of Loss; Touchstone Five: Recognise You Are Not Crazy; Touchstone Six: Understanding the Six Needs of Mourning; Touchstone Seven: Nurture Yourself; Touchstone Eight: Reach Out for Help; Touchstone Nine: Seek Integration -- Not Resolution; Touchstone Ten: Appreciate Your Transformation; Contacts to Create Support Groups & Additional Resources; The Suicide Survivor's Bill of Rights; Helping a Suicide Survivor Heal.

Reihe/Serie	Understanding Your Grief
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Fort Collins
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Gewicht	335 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-879651-58-0 / 1879651580
ISBN-13	978-1-879651-58-6 / 9781879651586
Zustand	Neuware