Book Description

Guiding Your Family Through Loss and Grief is a unique book that discusses the process of dying, the moment of death, and the grief process following the death; it offers a continuum of information from the point of diagnosis through grieving the death. It explores a variety of types of loss by death, and helps us to understand why we think, feel, and act as we do in loss situations. In addition, this book provides suggestions on how to support the patient and their friends and family members who are experiencing these loss situations. Guiding Your Family Through Loss and Grief provides comprehensive information when read from cover to cover, but is also written in a way that provides complete and specific information when a single chapter is read. The brief summary at the end of each chapter is designed as a tool for quick review when the reader is attempting to locate specific information. Guiding Your Family Through Loss and Grief is written in a tone that allows the reader to explore feelings without the fear of being overwhelmed by them, while at the same time normalizing those feelings. The book offers practical activities for the reader to follow, presented with compassion and spiritual insight. One of the lessons in this book is the importance of providing the patient, individuals, families, and friends with a safe place to grieve, and the language to grieve. This book provides the information and suggestions necessary to promote healthy grieving.