Helping Grieving People - When Tears Are Not Enough - 9781138127951

Taylor & Francis

Helping Grieving People \u2013 When Tears Are Not Enough is a handbook for care providers who provide service, support and counseling to those grieving death, illness, and other losses. This book is also an excellent text for academic courses as well as for staff development training. The author addresses grief as it affects a variety of relationships and discusses different intervention and support strategies, always cognizant of individual and cultural differences in the expression and treatment of grief. Jeffreys has established a practical approach to preparing grief care providers through three basic tracks. The first track: Heart \u2013 calls for self-discovery, freeing oneself of accumulated loss in order to focus all attention on the griever. Second track: Head \u2013 emphasizes understanding the complex and dynamic phenomena of human grief. Third track: Hands \u2013 stresses the caregiver's actual intervention, and speaks to lay and professional levels of skill, as well as t.