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The Crafting of Grief
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

The Crafting of Grief

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-07-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Many books on grief lay out a model to be followed, either for bereaved persons to live through or for professionals to practice, and usually follow some familiar prescriptions for what people should do to reach an accommodation with loss. The Crafting of Grief is different: it focuses on conversations that help people chart their own path through grief. Authors Hedtke and Winslade argue convincingly that therapists and counselors can support people more by helping them craft their own responses to bereavement rather than trying to squeeze experiences into a model. In the pages of this book, readers will learn how to develop lines of inquiry based on the concept of continuing bonds, and they’ll discover ways to use these ideas to help the bereaved craft stories that remember loved ones’ lives.

Bereavement Support Groups
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

Bereavement Support Groups

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-03-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Filling the gap between the challenges to conventional grief psychology and the practice of bereavement counseling, this structured guide will also inspire readers with a new way of thinkingNincluding the stories and love that remain after death. Here is a model for folding the deceased person's values, legacies, meanings, and connections into the lives of the living.

Remembering Lives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Remembering Lives

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-12-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Grief is frequently thought of as an ordeal we must simply survive. This book offers a fresh approach to the negotiation of death and grief. It is founded in principles of constructive conversation that focus on "remembering" lives, in contrast to processes of forgetting or dismembering those who have died. Re-membering is about a comforting, life enhancing, and sustaining approach to death that does not dwell on the pain of loss and is much more than wistful reminiscing. It is about the deliberate construction of stories that continue to include the dead in the membership of our lives.

My Grandmother Is Always with Me
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 38

My Grandmother Is Always with Me

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-06-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Children look to us as adults to guide and assist them through the confusing time both before and after the death of a loved one. This brief explanation is intended as a resource for adults to help you answer children's questions and reassure their uncertainties. These suggestions are intended to help you guide your children during times of change and to help children to actively remember their deceased loved ones, rather than dwell only on the pain of loss. Through remembering, children can honor the relationship they have with their dead loved ones in ways that enrich their own and their family's lives. We hope that this guide will spark ideas and practices that invite the joyful moments of remembering with your children.

Continuing Bonds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Continuing Bonds

First published in 1996. This new book gives voice to an emerging consensus among bereavement scholars that our understanding of the grief process needs to be expanded. The dominant 20th century model holds that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, thereby freeing the survivor to reinvest in new relationships in the present. Pathological grief has been defined in terms of holding on to the deceased. Close examination reveals that this model is based more on the cultural values of modernity than on any substantial data of what people actually do. Presenting data from several populations, 22 authors - among the most respected in their fields - demonstrate that ...

The Relational Imperative: Resources for a World on Edge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

The Relational Imperative: Resources for a World on Edge

We enter an era of the unknown - global conditions move with unprecedented speed, unpredictably, disruptively, and uncontrollably. Conflict is unceasing and increasingly polarized. Global warming and the spread of deadly diseases are a threat to all. How are we to go on? One thing is clear: in these perilous conditions working together is imperative. As Gergen advances in this clear and compelling work, successful collaboration requires a radical transformation in our understanding of relationships. So long as we cling to the view that relationships are made up of separate entities - persons, communities, organizations or nations - our survival will be threatened. Rather, as Gergen proposes, we must reverse our understanding: it is out of the process of relating that emerge what we take to be the entities and their character. Care for the entities must be replaced by care for the process. This brief introduction to a relational perspective is bountifully illustrated with innovative practices - in education, healthcare, organizational development, peace building and more. All function to enhance well-being through relational process.

Narrative Practice: Continuing the Conversations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Narrative Practice: Continuing the Conversations

This book is an inclusion of papers that were originally given as plenary addresses. The author?s descriptions of his work with a number of people are also included in the book. In these descriptions we are treated not only to the details of his work, but we see the exquisite care he took in his therapy relationships.

Continuing Bonds in Bereavement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

Continuing Bonds in Bereavement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-11-27
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The introduction of the continuing bonds model of grief near the end of the 20th century revolutionized the way researchers and practitioners understand bereavement. Continuing Bonds in Bereavement is the most comprehensive, state-of-the-art collection of developments in this field since the inception of the model. As a multi-perspectival, nuanced, and forward-looking anthology, it combines innovations in clinical practice with theoretical and empirical advancements. The text traces grief in different cultural settings, asking questions about the truth in our interactions with the dead and showing how new cultural developments like social media change the ways we relate to those who have died. Together, the book’s four sections encourage practitioners and scholars in both bereavement studies and in other fields to broaden their understanding of the concept of continuing bonds.

Retelling the Stories of Our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Retelling the Stories of Our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience

Our lives and their pathways are not fixed in stone; instead they are shaped by story. If we tell stories that emphasize only desolation, then we become weaker. If we tell stories in ways that make us stronger, we can soothe our losses and erase sorrows. Learning how to re-envision the stories we tell about ourselves can make an enormous difference in the ways we live our lives. Drawing on wisdom form the field of narrative therapy, this book will help people rewrite and retell the stories of their lives, reclaiming and celebrating experiences in the face of specific challenges such as trauma, abuse, personal failure, grief, and aging. Readers are introduced to key ideas of narrative practice like externalizing problems--"the person is not the problem, the problem is the problem"--and the concept of "re-membering" one's life. Easy-to-understand examples and exercises help readers make these techniques their own, leading them on a path to reclaim their past and re-envision their future. -- Publisher's description.

Safe and Peaceful Schools
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

Safe and Peaceful Schools

... This book provides step-by-step instruction for implementing a narrative-based approach as an alternative to traditional discipline strategies.