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The Handbook for Companioning the Mourner
Eleven Essential Principles
Series: The Companioning Series
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This handbook is ideal for counsellors, healthcare professionals, and anyone seeking to provide empathetic support to people experiencing loss. It is also valuable for friends and family members wanting to understand how to be present and companion others through mourning with sensitivity and respect.
Explores the ways companionship eases grief. Suitable for caretakers who work with grieving people or for friends and family just hoping to stay close, this book outlines 11 tenets for mourner-led care.
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Partly a counselling model and partly an explanation of true empathy, this handbook explores the ways companionship eases grief. For caretakers who work with grieving people or for friends and family just hoping to stay close, 11 tenets are outlined for mourner-led care.
These simple rules call for understanding another person's pain, listening with the heart rather than the head, not filling up every minute with words, respecting confusion and disorder, and relying on curiosity rather than expertise.
The Handbook for Companioning the Mourner by Alan Wolfelt provides valuable insights that benefit both professional caretakers and those offering personal support to mourners.
Series: The Companioning Series
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The Handbook for Companioning the Mourner
Partly a counselling model and partly an explanation of true empathy, this handbook explores the ways companionship eases grief. For caretakers who work with grieving people or for friends and family just hoping to stay close, 11 tenets are outlined for mourner-led care. These simple rules call for understanding another person's pain, listening with the heart rather than the head,...Hardback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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ISBN: 9781879651616
Publisher: Companion Press,US
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 April 2009
Country: United States
Imprint: Companion Press,US
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 254g
Pages: 128
About the Author
Alan D Wolfelt Ph.D. serves as director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition. He writes the 'Children and Grief' column for Bereavement Magazine and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, and Today. He is the author of Healing Your Grieving Heart, Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart, and Understanding Your Grief. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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