Helping widows and widowers to learn how to cope with the grief of losing their helpmate, their lover, and perhaps their financial provider, this guide shows them how to find continued meaning in life when doing so seems difficult. Bereaved spouses will find advice on when and how to dispose of their mate's belongings...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651517
Explaining how multitudes of North Americans are carrying the pain of all types of loss--not just the deaths of loved ones but also the loss of a spouse through divorce...more details Format:Paperback Pages:152
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651357
Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651432
Parents, teachers, and other adults can learn through this concise and caring guide to how children and adolescents grieve after someone they love dies. Exploring the six reconciliation needs of mourning...more details Format:Paperback Pages:52
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Harold Ivan Smith;Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9780834118195
Suffering the loss of a loved one at any time of the year is difficult, yet during the holidays or special occasions, those grieving experience a more intense sense of loss. The world is moving forward and celebrating life and all its blessings...more details Format:Paperback Pages:134
Renowned author and educator Alan Wolfelt redefines the role of the grief counsellor in this guide for caregivers. His new model for 'companioning' the bereaved gives a viable alternative to the limitations of the medical establishment...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:191
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651203
Designed to complement the clergy and funeral director's role in the funeral planning process, this book walks families through the many decisions they will make at the time of a death and helps them create a ceremony that will be both healing and meaningful. Options are clearly explained and alternatives are also given...more details Format:Paperback Pages:80
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651388
Written, in response to the current trend to deritualise death and funeral ceremonies, this book explores the ways in which caregivers and clergy can create heartfelt ceremonies that help the bereaved begin to heal. Explaining the purposes behind rituals...more details Format:Paperback Pages:85
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9780915202768
Clergy are in a natural position to help people who experience a variety of losses, including death, divorce, moves, and develop-mental transitions. Historically...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:216
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651449
From personalising memorials and visitations to aftercare for the bereaved, this thoughtful manual helps owners and staff of funeral homes and cemeteries better understand their customers and the special needs in tending to the grieving and burial process. Explaining the evolution and prospects of today's "experience economy" customer...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:233
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651289
A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781617221422
Addressing the significant loss that divorce represents for children, this title helps adults to guide children through the natural grief that accompanies the experience. Contending that children can continue to thrive if they are shown the way...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651265
A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651302
Presenting simple yet highly effective methods for coping and healing, this book provides answers and relief to parents trying to deal with the loss of a child. It offers 100 practical...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651241
A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781617221385
Focusing on the natural grief children endure when their parent's divorce, this guide helps children process the common feelings of shock, sadness...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651692
Full of practical, time-tested counsel, this handbook offers simple, useful tips and activities to counter the typically negative reactions to job loss...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651456
With a gentle and considerate style, this handbook explores what happens when grief and the workplace meet, and the drastic effects of grieving on employees...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651319
Offering heartfelt and simple advice, this book provides realistic suggestions and relief for an adult child whose parent has died. Practical advice is presented in a one-topic-per-page format that does not overwhelm with psychological language...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651296
Compassionate and heartfelt, this collection offers 100 practical ideas to help understand and accept the passing of a sibling in order to practice self-healing. The principles of grief and mourning are clearly defined...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651104
This comprehensive guide to helping grieving children offers a holistic view of grief as a normal, natural process. It explores the ways in which bereaved children can not only heal but also grow through their grief...more details Format:Paperback Pages:316
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651630
Acknowledging the unique set of symptoms that accompanies a period of mourning, this guide is the ideal companion to weathering the storm of physical distress. From muscle aches and pains to problems with eating and sleeping...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651272
With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651234
With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651333
In light of how difficult it is just to survive the teenage years, the grieving process can be especially difficult and overwhelming for teenagers. This diary affirms the grieving teen's journey and offers gentle...more details Format:Paperback Pages:118
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781617221484
Navigating the challenging journey that families and friends of Alzheimer's patients must endure, this heartfelt guide reveals how their struggle is as complex and drawn out as the illness itself. Confronting their natural but difficult process of grieving and mourning...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651258
With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651579
Following a helpful introduction about the role of spirituality in grief, this practical mourning guide suggests activities based on meditation...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651487
With compassionate insight, this handbook helps those in mourning through what can be the hardest time of year - the holiday season. Mourners will better understand their complex emotions after reading about such topics as honouring thoughts and feelings...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9780915202393
Guidelines are presented in the book of how one can create a "helping healing relationship." Through reading and participating in the activities presented...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781559590259
This comprehensive handbook provides a solid foundation in helping skills related to successful funeral service practice....more details Format:Paperback Pages:238
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781617221477
Recognizing how the need to grieve is anchored in one's capacity to care for someone, this calming guide contends that the act of mourning is healthy--and necessary--following a life-changing loss. The very foundation of attachment is reflected upon...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:128
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651616
Partly a counseling 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...more details Format:Hardback Pages:117
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651340
This spiritual companion for mourners affirms their need to mourn and invites them to journey through their very unique and personal grief. Detailed are the six needs that all mourners must yield to and eventually embrace if they are to go on to find continued meaning in life and living...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
Addressing the inevitable grief that accompanies the loss of a loved one, this encouraging and supportive reference provides comfort in the midst of overwhelming sadness. Preventing mourners from becoming tangled in a web of despair...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:194
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651548
An aide for the challenging emotional process that follows a divorce, this companion journal to "Transcending Divorce" explores the 10 crucial touchstones for finding hope and healing the mourning heart...more details Format:Paperback Pages:129
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651562
Intended for leaders who want to facilitate an effective divorce group, this guide provides 12 meeting plans based on the book Transcending Divorce and its companion journal. Showing that feelings of grief and loss are to be expected during and after a divorce...more details Format:Paperback Pages:60
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651401
This guide to facilitating support groups offers bereavement caregivers practical strategies for creating and maintaining a productive environment for mourners. Logistical considerations such as setting up and publicizing a new group are discussed...more details Format:Paperback Pages:112
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651593
With ample space to unburden the heart and the soul, this companion workbook helps grievers explore the 10 essential touchstones for finding hope and healing...more details Format:Paperback Pages:145
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651609
For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound loss...more details Format:Paperback Pages:52
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651531
Addressing a significant loss in life, this guidebook enables those who have experienced a divorce to mourn sufficiently and begin to heal. Delving into the 10 essential touchstones of the healing process...more details Format:Hardback Pages:104
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651524
Based on the author's previous guides to a 10-touchstone method of grief therapy, this book takes an inspirational approach to the material, presenting the idea of wilderness as a sustained metaphor for grief--and likening the death of a loved one to the experience of being wrenched from normal life and dropped down in the middle of nowhere...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:110
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651685
Presenting the idea of wilderness as a sustained metaphor for grief, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to the grief felt by those who have experienced the suicide of a loved one and offers information about coping with such a profound loss...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:128
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651500
With empathy and wisdom, this resource provides 10 essential touchstones for hope and healing when enduring a divorce while simultaneously dispelling common misconceptions associated with divorce. Stressing the importance of the need to fully mourn the loss of a relationship before moving on...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:194
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651623
Confronting the "little griefs" that can occur in the course of a lifetime, this handbook seeks to relieve the inevitable burden of loss. Taking the "wilderness experience" into account--being disconnected from oneself and the outside world--this guide presents 12 vital questions...more details Format:Paperback Pages:152
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651586
For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound loss...more details Format:Paperback Pages:220
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Alan Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651364
Affirming a pet owner's struggle with grief when his or her pet dies, this book helps mourners to understand why their feelings are so strong and helps them overcome the loss...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651647
Addressing a significant loss in life, this audio book enables those who have experienced a divorce to mourn sufficiently and begin to heal. Delving into the 10 essential touchstones of the healing process...more details Format:CD
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Alan D Wolfelt
ISBN:9781879651555
Based on the author's previous guides to grief therapy, this audiobook takes an inspirational approach to the material, presenting the idea of wilderness as a sustained metaphor for grief--where the death of a loved one is likened to the experience of being wrenched from normal life and dropped down in the middle of nowhere...more details Format:CD