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Large Print Book

Grief is a journey : finding your path through loss / by Dr. Kenneth J. Doka.

Summary:

There is no "one-size-fits-all" way to cope with loss. Grief Is a Journey is the first book to overturn the prevailing, often judgmental, ideas about grief, and replace them with a hopeful, inclusive, personalized, and research-backed approach.

Record details

ISBN: 9781410491312
ISBN: 1410491315
Physical Description: 513 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Edition: Large Print edition.
Publisher: Waterville : Thorndike Press, 2016.
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The journey of grief. The myths and realities of grief ; The experience of grief ; Your journey with grief: understanding the process ; Your style of grieveing, questionnaire: grief inventory -- The many losses in life. When your spouse dies ; When a child dies ; When a parent dies ; The loss of a sibling in adult life -- The unacknowledged losses of life: disenfranchised grief. Broken bonds: when relationships are not recognized ; Does anyone understand? Unacknowledged loss ; Acknowledging the disenfranchised -- Helping yourself, and others. Making rituals meaningful ; When self-help is not enough ; Growing in and through grief.