Bereavement Support Groups by Lorraine Hedtke

Bereavement Support Groups by Lorraine Hedtke

This book, BEREAVEMENT SUPORT GROUPS, fills the gap between the challenges to conventional grief psychology and the practice of bereavement counseling. The deceased person has often been left behind in counseling conversations, requiring the bereaved to distance themselves from honoring memories that could soothe their heartache. Ironically, the stories of the dead person have not featured prominently in the grief experience. This book offers a structured guide for facilitating bereavement support groups, but is intended as more than a simple how to book. It will also inspire readers with invigorating practice ideas. This new way of thinking includes 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. The book shows how to utilize the metaphorical presence of the deceased, accessed through stories, actions and rituals, to affirm the relationship with the deceased as more than a lost memory to be shelved next to dusty old photo albums.

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ISBN 13	9780984865611
ISBN 10	0984865616
Title	Bereavement Support Groups
Author	Lorraine Hedtke
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taos Institute Publications
Year published	2012-03-09
Number of pages	150
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