(Ebook) Helping Grieving People: When Tears Are Not Enough: A Handbook for Care Providers by J. Shep Jeffreys ISBN 9780203487914, 9780415946032, 0203487915, 0415946034

(Ebook) Helping Grieving People: When Tears Are Not Enough: A Handbook for Care Providers by J. Shep Jeffreys ISBN 9780203487914, 9780415946032, 0203487915, 0415946034

We are care providers all. Whether you’re a professional care provider or someone who wants to comfort a loved one in pain, you can learn how to accompany and support an anguished person on his or her "grief journey" when tears are not enough. Helping Grieving People teaches you how with practical guidelines on what to say, what to do, and how to act around a person who is grieving. Special emphasis is given to the needs of grieving children, parents, older adults, family caregivers as well as the dying and chronically ill and/or impaired. The book includes a rich source of both supportive and clinical suggestions, discusses the role of culture, family and nature of the death on the grief reactions. Personal stories, case histories, and self-awareness exercises are woven in throughout the book.