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The Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents

Author : Dennis Klass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317771761
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents written by Dennis Klass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how parents lose, find, or relocate spiritual anchors after the death of their child. It describes how ordinary people reconstruct their lives after their foundations have shifted, and how they make sense of their world after one of their centers of meaning has been removed. Klass grounds his descriptions of spirituality in his scholarly study of comparative religions, and in his two decades studying the lives of bereaved parents. He argues that continuing bonds with their dead children can give parents a new transcendent reality. Deceased children, like saints or bodhisattvas, can offer a bridge between the profane and sacred worlds, support parents as they find meaning in a world made forever poorer, and bind together a community adequate to parents' grief. The book reports Klass's clinical practice and his work as advisor to a bereaved parents self-help support group.

The Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents

Author : Dennis Klass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131777177X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents written by Dennis Klass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how parents lose, find, or relocate spiritual anchors after the death of their child. It describes how ordinary people reconstruct their lives after their foundations have shifted, and how they make sense of their world after one of their centers of meaning has been removed. Klass grounds his descriptions of spirituality in his scholarly study of comparative religions, and in his two decades studying the lives of bereaved parents. He argues that continuing bonds with their dead children can give parents a new transcendent reality. Deceased children, like saints or bodhisattvas, can offer a bridge between the profane and sacred worlds, support parents as they find meaning in a world made forever poorer, and bind together a community adequate to parents' grief. The book reports Klass's clinical practice and his work as advisor to a bereaved parents self-help support group.

Through the Eyes of a Dove

Author : Suzanne Gene Courtney
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1609769791
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Through the Eyes of a Dove written by Suzanne Gene Courtney and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suzanne G. Courtney writes of her family's path through grief to peace & on to acceptance, in the hope it will help bereaving parents.

Helping Bereaved Parents

Author : Richard G. Tedeschi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135450536
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Helping Bereaved Parents written by Richard G. Tedeschi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a concise, yet comprehensive guide to effective work with bereaved parents, combining a broad overview of current research, theory, and practice with the authors' own extensive clinical experience. Transcripts of individual, couple, and group meetings illustrate the delicate subtleties of this work, giving the reader helpful insights into more effective clinical practice. The authors emphasize the importance of approaching each parent as a unique person, while also considering the socio-cultural context of the bereaved. This book helps clinicians approach work with bereaved parents with a less scripted format, suggesting an alternative role as expert companion to the bereaved, allowing for a more uplifting experience for both parties.

Living Through Loss

Author : Nancy R. Hooyman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550219
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Living Through Loss written by Nancy R. Hooyman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Through Loss provides a foundational identification of the many ways in which people experience loss over the life course, from childhood to old age. It examines the interventions most effective at each phase of life, combining theory, sound clinical practice, and empirical research with insights emerging from powerful accounts of personal experience. The authors emphasize that loss and grief are universal yet highly individualized. Loss comes in many forms and can include not only a loved one’s death but also divorce, adoption, living with chronic illness, caregiving, retirement and relocation, or being abused, assaulted, or otherwise traumatized. They approach the topic from the perspective of the resilience model, which acknowledges people’s capacity to find meaning in their losses and integrate grief into their lives. The book explores the varying roles of age, race, culture, sexual orientation, gender, and spirituality in responses to loss. Presenting a variety of models, approaches, and resources, Living Through Loss offers invaluable lessons that can be applied in any practice setting by a wide range of human service and health care professionals. This second edition features new and expanded content on diversity and trauma, including discussions of gun violence, police brutality, suicide, and an added focus on systemic racism.

Helping Bereaved Parents

Author : Richard G. Tedeschi
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1583913645
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Helping Bereaved Parents written by Richard G. Tedeschi and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Continuing Bonds

Author : Dennis Klass
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317763602
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Continuing Bonds written by Dennis Klass and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 health resolution of grief enables one to maintain a continuing bond with the deceased. Despite cultural disapproval and lack of validation by professionals, survivors find places for the dead in their on-going lives and even in their communities. Such bonds are not denial: the deceased can provide resources for enriched functioning in the present. Chapters examine widows and widowers, bereaved children, parents and siblings, and a population previously excluded from bereavement research: adoptees and their birth parents. Bereavement in Japanese culture is also discussed, as are meanings and implications of this new model of grief. Opening new areas of research and scholarly dialogue, this work provides the basis for significant developments in clinical practice in the field.

Messages

Author : George E. Dalzell
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612830161
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Messages written by George E. Dalzell and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This personal account of contact with the spirit realm offers insight into the mysteries of death and concrete evidence that life continues on. For most of his adult life, therapist George Dalzell didn’t believe in contact beyond the grave. But his perspective on reality was forever shifted after his friend Michael was killed. Dalzell had counseled people who claimed to hear voices. Now he was hearing a voice himself—one that was unmistakably Michael. The voice revealed information about Michael’s private life and possessions. Other phenomena followed, including apparitions of Michael and rose petals left in the pattern of an angel. And Dalzell wasn’t alone. Michael opened the channels to seven friends and family members, providing incontrovertible signs that prove he was communicating with them. In Messages, Dalzell adds indisputable confirmation of life after death. His uplifting story can offer comfort to grieving families and calm our fears of passing into the next realm.

Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child

Author : Paul C. Rosenblatt
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439905340
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child written by Paul C. Rosenblatt and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bereaved Parents¿ Survival Guide

Author : Juliet Cassuto Rothman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781437977127
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Bereaved Parents¿ Survival Guide written by Juliet Cassuto Rothman and published by . This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wise and compassionate guide through the difficult times that all parents face when they lose a child. It begins with the inner world of the bereaved parent and moves outward to consider relationships to others: to a spouse, to one¿s other children, to relatives, friends, and acquaintances. The book deals with some of the most painful decisions a bereaved parent must face, such as what to do with a child¿s belongings. It discusses memorials and remembrances, and the role of religion and spirituality in the life of bereaved parents. Attention is paid to special problems, such as perinatal death, loss of an only child, violent death, and missing and kidnapped children, among others. Includes a list of resources to which parents can turn for help. ¿Beautifully written.¿

Grieving and Healing

Author : Baruch C Cohen Esq
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981710676
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Grieving and Healing written by Baruch C Cohen Esq and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a bereaved parent, Los Angeles attorney Baruch Cohen draws on his religious faith as an Orthodox Jew and on his trial advocacy skills, to chart his spiritual journey beyond pain, to grieve and heal properly from his daughter Hindy's death to cancer 14 year ago. Drawing from his penetrating insights into the Torah, Cohen brings hope to the bereaved and those lost in pain, to reclaim happiness from tragedy.

How to Survive the Loss of a Child

Author : Catherine Sanders
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 030757475X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book How to Survive the Loss of a Child written by Catherine Sanders and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thank you, Catherine Sanders, for giving us a book that few others could have written. Every page speaks both the depth of your compassion and the breadth of your knowledge. This book will be a wise companion on the difficult journey from loss to recovery." — Robert Kastenbaum, Ph.D., author of The Psychology of Death "How to Survive the Loss of a Child is a godsend to those in the field as well as to those of us in need of such a resource for our own mourning." — Eugene Knott, Ph.D., University of Rhode Island "Dr. Sanders' insights are profound and poignant." — Patricia Geiger, M.D., pediatrician, Boone, North Carolina "Thank you so much for all that you do for bereaved parents but especially for writing How to Survive the Loss of a Child. I know that it has changed lives. It changed mine!" — Nancy Ulmer, bereaved parent, Kindermourn, Charlotte, North Carolina It is only through experiencing grief that bereaved parents ultimately heal. Moving through the phases of grief, the bereaved person works toward restoration. Understanding these phases, knowing what to expect, and learning what they can do to help themselves give parents greater assurance and comfort. In How to Survive the Loss of a Child, Dr. Sanders, a bereaved parent herself, offers grieving parents practical help and emotional support. This book also helps family members, friends, and caregivers relate to grieving parents and aids them, too, in understanding the process of healing through grief.

Miraculous Moments

Author : Elissa Al-Chokhachy
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738726737
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Miraculous Moments written by Elissa Al-Chokhachy and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does life continue after death? Will we ever be reunited with loved ones? Does love ever die? Heartfelt testimony to the eternal nature of the human spirit can be found in this collection of eighty-eight true stories from people who have seen, heard, and felt love from their family, friends, and acquaintances in spirit. The author, a hospice nurse, shares the wisdom she has gained from nearly twenty years of working with the dying and bereaved. Told with courage and warmth, these vivid firsthand accounts—of receiving signs, messages, and even hugs from family members who have crossed over; encounters with angels; near-death experiences; and visits from the spirits of beloved pets—offer hope, reassurance, and comfort to anyone who is mourning a lost loved one or has ever wondered if life goes on. Praise: "Miraculous Moments will help many who need reassurance that life is a circle and the best is yet to come."—Louis E. LaGrand, PhD, CT, Bereavement Counselor and author of Love Lives On and Messages and Miracles "The personal stories are well written and sincere. Very compelling."— Robert D. Lessle, MD, Author of Angels in the ER "Miraculous Moments is such a beautiful and easy read, but one that asks you to sit quietly, to breathe in the Spirit of each encounter with God and then to meditate on its message for a good long while. This is not a book that one reads only once, or all at once, but rather one that draws us back, time and again, for the nourishment it offers through each and every story. The all powerful, all loving, infinite Creator of the Universe makes His presence known in the most simple and exquisite ways, over and over again throughout Miraculous Moments. He remains gently hidden in a flower, a chance meeting, a beautiful sunset and the heartfelt language of love, spoken between friends."— Trudy Harris, RN, Author of Glimpses of Heaven: True Stories of Hope and Peace at the ENd of Life's Journey "Not only does this book offer hope and consolation for the grieving, it provokes thought on the finality of death as society generally views it."—Library Journal

Overcoming the Fear of Death

Author : Kelvin H. Chin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997717402
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Overcoming the Fear of Death written by Kelvin H. Chin and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how to reduce or overcome fear of death for those who hold a variety of beliefs on death including: the belief that there is no afterlife, that the there is an afterlife and it is something to be feared, that there is an afterlife and that it is something to look forward to, and that there is reincarnation after death.

Messages from the Afterlife

Author : Mark Ireland
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583947183
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Messages from the Afterlife written by Mark Ireland and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father watches his teenage son step out the door on a hiking trip, not knowing that this is the last time he would see him.... A journal of grief, despair, and ultimately, hope, this book tells the story of every parent's nightmare--the sudden death of a child--and a father's search for meaning in a seemingly random world of psychics and skeptics. Expanding on territory covered in his 2008 memoir of his son's death Soul Shift, Messages from the Afterlife is both an account of Ireland's journey from indifference to belief and an overview of the resources available to the bereaved to help them receive messages from the afterlife. Mark Ireland, son of celebrated "psychic to the stars" Dr. Richard Ireland, was a successful marketing executive in Arizona with little interest in his father's colorful history. While his father held readings for Mae West and traveled the U.S. demonstrating his parapsychological powers, Mark Ireland took a more conventional route through life. But when his own teenage son Brandon suddenly dies while hiking in the mountains with friends, Ireland is forced to confront his resistance to all things spiritual and begins to explore the possibility that communication with the dead is real. In his search for conclusive evidence of life after death, he plunges into his father's world and meets an array of respected psychic-mediums who deliver unexpected messages not only from his son in the afterlife but also from many other souls seeking to communicate with the living. Fighting to retain a sense of critical thinking, Ireland also contacts scientists conducting research into the survival of consciousness after death. The book features detailed accounts of tests and experiments that various people have conducted to obtain proof of consciousness survival, including Ireland's own, involving a secret message left behind by his sister, Robin, who died of pancreatic cancer. The contents of this message were unknown to any living person and remained sealed in an envelope--untouched--until responses had been received from a group of qualified mediums who sought to "crack" the code. Messages from the Afterlife shows how spirit communication can be both undeniably accurate and frustratingly ambiguous, and above all demonstrates the value of having an open, receptive mind while maintaining faith in the indestructiblity of the human spirit.

What Forever Means After the Death of a Child

Author : Kay Talbot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135057532
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book What Forever Means After the Death of a Child written by Kay Talbot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of Tables. List of Figures. Series Editor's Foreword. Preface. Prologue. Acknowledgements. What It Means to Be a Parent After a Child Had Died. The "Mothers Now Childless" Study: Research Design and Findings. When a Child Dies, Does Grieving Ever End? One Death - A Thousand Strands of Pain: Finding the Meaning of Suffering. Bereaved Parents' Search for Understanding: The Paradox of Healing. Confronting a Spiritual Crisis: Where is God When Bad Things Happen? Confronting an Existential Crisis: Can Life Have Purpose Again? Deciding to Survive: Reaching Bottom - Climbing Up. Remembering With Love: Bereaved Parents as Biographer. Reaching Out to Help Others: Wounded Healers. Reinventing the Self: Parents Ask, "Who Are We Now?". The Legacy of Loss. References. Resources. Appendices. Index.

Culture, Consolation, and Continuing Bonds in Bereavement

Author : Dennis Klass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000536300
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Culture, Consolation, and Continuing Bonds in Bereavement written by Dennis Klass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture, Consolation, and Continuing Bonds in Bereavement presents Dennis Klass’s most important contributions to the scholarship of grief and bereavement. Journal articles, book chapters, and previously unpublished works cover more than 40 years of study and practice on the forefront of our understanding of individual, family, and community grief. The writings range widely, including explorations of continuing bonds and consolation, aspects of grief that were missing when Klass began his work, studies of grief across different cultures, and critical analyses of theories that were popular in grief scholarship but inadequately described bereaved parents’ experiences. The book ends with a previously unpublished case study of Charles Darwin, whose experience as a bereaved parent informed the worldview at the heart of his theory of natural selection. This collection of essays offers an integral understanding of how individuals move through grief and is a valuable addition to the library of anyone working with topics relevant to grieving adults, children, and adolescents.