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Dying, Death and Grief is written for anyone who provides support to adults following bereavement. The author explains the theoretical background to attachment and loss and the core skills needed to support people who have been bereaved. Case studies and personal accounts are included to illustrate key points and exercises are provided to help you examine your own experiences and attitudes in relation to loss. The book also takes into account topics that are frequently overlooked in other texts such as sexuality, spiritual responses to loss, cultural influences and diversity, as well as the nature of chronic and disenfranchised grief.
Attachment and Loss, Death and Dying. Theoretical Foundations for Bereavement Counselling
Attachment and Loss, Death and Dying. Theoretical Foundations for Bereavement Counselling
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Without attachment there would be no sense of loss.1
This chapter explores the different theories that underpin bereavement counselling. Views on the most effective ways to support those who are bereaved have changed over many years (Parkes 2002). In looking at the variety of approaches to grief work you will discover many overlaps and see how growth from one view to another has taken place. It will show how today's thanatologists, those who study death and the practices associated with it, think and practice. They bring sociological, anthropological and cultural perspectives to their work (Boerner and Heckhausen 2003). ...
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