The Bereaved Parent

The Bereaved Parent
Author: Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2012-04-18
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0307817377

Practical supportive advice for bereaved parents and the professionals who work with them, based on the experiences of psychiatric and religious counselors. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: “Certainly, in the early days after our son died, no one could have patted us on the our heads and convinced us everything would be all right. Nor will this book do that for you. It will, with the help of parents who have successfully coped and professional people who work with bereavement, offer guidelines and practical step-by-step suggestions to aid you.”

Helping Bereaved Parents

Helping Bereaved Parents
Author: Richard G. Tedeschi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2004-03-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135450536

This book provides a concise, yet comprehensive guide to effective work with bereaved parents, combining a broad overview of current research, theory, and practice with the authors' own extensive clinical experience. Transcripts of individual, couple, and group meetings illustrate the delicate subtleties of this work, giving the reader helpful insights into more effective clinical practice. The authors emphasize the importance of approaching each parent as a unique person, while also considering the socio-cultural context of the bereaved. This book helps clinicians approach work with bereaved parents with a less scripted format, suggesting an alternative role as expert companion to the bereaved, allowing for a more uplifting experience for both parties.

Jessica's Gift

Jessica's Gift
Author: Susan Loch
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-11-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9780646826189

Mother of three, Susan Loch, had led a carefree life until 21 March 2011. Yet when she woke to find a policeman standing beside her husband, she immediately guessed the sickening truth. Her nineteen-year-old daughter, Jessica, had been killed. She was the latest victim of a treacherous stretch of the Princes Highway on the South Coast of New South Wales. Life, as Susan knew it, changed forever.Jessica's Gift is a candid and heartfelt story, charting how Susan grappled with each subsequent day. Initially, her grief felt intolerable and unending; Susan despaired, but she didn't give up. Yet, gradually, hope, peace and even joy crept back into her life. Susan's strength and resilience will inspire anyone who seeks to understand the traumatic experience of child bereavement.

Grieving Parents

Grieving Parents
Author: Kat Biggie Press
Publisher: Kat Biggie Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2014-09-28
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780989934770

This book is not about one story of loss or one grief therapy approach. This book contains exactly what grieving couples have asked for: what they wanted to know in exactly your situation; what they have mentioned and pointed out they would need or would have needed in that horrendous time of loss. Books written by bereaved parents often follow the formula: "My life was beautiful, then my child or baby died and then my life was never the same again. I had to write a book about it." These books are usually self-therapy, rather than a way to help others. Books by therapists often talk about their work from a theoretical basis that lacks personal experience. They discuss people who experience complicated or chronic grief as opposed to encouraging the resilience that lies within each and every one of us. I have experienced the loss of a child and I am a grief therapist, but this book is not a memoir about my loss. Neither is it just a book written from the perspective of a therapist having worked with countless clients experiencing loss. This book focuses on the effect parental bereavement has on the parents and their relationship. It is about surviving loss as a couple and the re-emerging from grief into a life of joy and melancholy, laughter and tears, happiness and sadness. Not either/or but BOTH/AND. This book will, teach you understanding and acceptance of the grieving process each and everyone chooses. In a relationship, each partner is equally responsible to take part in sailing the ship together. Surviving Loss as a Couple is about how you can re-emerge from this crazy ride through the darkness of grief with renewed depth and understanding with your partner. This book is based on bereaved parents' needs, challenges and what they said has helped them, based on a worldwide survey I have conducted. It contains detailed descriptions of what has helped eighteen individuals and couples that I have interviewed, couples in varying situations and at different stages of their journey with grief.

A Gift of Time

A Gift of Time
Author: Amy Kuebelbeck
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1421446707

"This book describes and affirms the wide range of experiences and emotions that can follow a life-limiting prenatal diagnosis. It offers encouragement and practical ideas for moving forward, including guidance for decision-making, strategies for coping with the remainder of your pregnancy, and ideas for nurturing and being with your baby, before and after birth and death. This book also describes the concept of perinatal hospice and palliative care, which is a well-established way of supporting parents whose babies are expected to die before or shortly after birth"--

My Gift of Light

My Gift of Light
Author: Sandy Wiltshire
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-10-06
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9780967553283

Sandy Wiltshire was an average mom who never gave much thought to spiritual matters such as life after death. But when her daughter was killed by a reckless driver, Sandy fell into the depths of despair and depression. As she opened ways to communicate with her deceased daughter, she found herself becoming a channel of reaffirming messages from others who had crossed over to the other side. As she learned to trust her new "gift of light," Sandy began to hold private readings with those who are bereaved-bringing words of love and hope to anyone cast adrift in the seas of sorrow. Sandy lives in Ontario with her husband and their two daughters.

Through the Eyes of a Dove

Through the Eyes of a Dove
Author: Suzanne Gene Courtney
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2010-03-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1609769791

Suzanne G. Courtney writes of her family's path through grief to peace & on to acceptance, in the hope it will help bereaving parents.

Dear Parents

Dear Parents
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1989
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781561230334

A Centering Corporation ResourceThis is a support group in book form. It is a collection of letters from bereaved parents to bereaved parents with other helpful information. Some of the people who wrote are Sauni Wood, Susan Evans, Karen Fulcher, Martha Clark, Marie Teague, Denise Gleason, Marion Cohen, Darcie Sims, Marilyn Gryte, Sherokee Ilse, Erma Bombeck, Janice Harris Lord, Sister Jane Marie Lamb, Martha Eise, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Earl Grollman, Dean Koontz and Joseph Wambaugh.Each page will tell you what other bereaved parents and siblings went through and how you can cope. It is filled with compassion and love.