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Grief and Powerlessness: Helping People Regain Control of their Lives

  • ISBN-13: 9781853023866
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By Ruth Bright
  • Price: AUD $62.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/06/1996
  • Format: Paperback (234.00mm X 155.00mm) 160 pages Weight: 332g
  • Categories: Coping with death & bereavement [VFJX]
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In this practical book on why and how people grieve, the author addresses the experience of bereavement and loss in a wide range of contexts, including: death and dying; ageing; disability; illness and AIDS; and cultural loss.The second part of the book presents ideas for practical solutions and discusses strategies to facilitate change and re-empower clients, helping them regain control of their lives.
A personal introduction; coping with loss - the context and the response; griefs of children; the griefs of adulthood and old age; the interweaving of loss of role, status and expectation; loss of material possessions and spiritual pain - the paradox; disability and frailty, grief and powerlessness; cultural aspects of loss - migrants and refugees; the grief of being HIV positive and of AIDS; the grief, anger and powerlessness of suicide; volunteering, neighbourliness and helping; facilitating change in blocked grief; music therapy for blocked grief; the challenges and griefs of the helper.
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