Loving and Losing: A Grief Primer
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 102
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 120
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Loving and Losing: A Grief Primer provides essential information for individuals helping those who are grieving. Helpers may be professionals, students within human service/health educational programs, or lay persons within faith communities. As this book is a primer, it is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather, to highlight important information for helpers who do not have the time to wade through extensive information.
A key focus in this book is the shift in grief work from resolving loss to making meaning in grief. Types of losses (e.g., loss of a job, divorce, death, ambiguous loss) and types of grief are explained. Interventions for helpers are presented as well as ways in which helpers can care for themselves. Dr. Annette Lane has worked in clinical settings where death was a constant presence, such as working as a nurse in a Cambodian refugee camp in the 1980s and on an oncology unit. Marlette Reed has worked in palliative care/bereavement for almost two decades. Thus, in this resource, theory is integrated with real life experience.
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
CHAPTER 2: Kinds of Loss
CHAPTER 3: Types of Grief
CHAPTER 4: Important Constructs in Loss and Grief
CHAPTER 5: Responding Effectively to Loss and Grief: Practical Strategies
CHAPTER 6: The Soul of the Helper
Marlette Reed, BEd, MA is a community chaplain and sessional instructor at a number of post-secondary institutions in Calgary, Canada. She also speaks on the issues germane to older adults in a variety of settings – churches, nursing homes, and conferences locally, nationally and internationally. After enjoying the challenges as a junior high teacher for 18 years, she went on to become a palliative care chaplain providing end-of-life care for almost a decade. In addition she has been a pastor providing pastoral care for those facing life issues and providing guidance for those effected by transitions in later life.
Annette Lane, RN, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Nursing and Health Studies at Athabasca University. Her areas of expertise include older adults with mental illness and their families. She speaks locally, nationally and internationally about issues pertaining to older adults. Her life experiences have taken her from her years as a nurse in a Cambodian refugee camp to providing local crisis counseling and to supervising a mental health unit at a Calgary hospital.
Loving and Losing: A Grief Primer provides essential information for individuals helping those who are grieving. Helpers may be professionals, students within human service/health educational programs, or lay persons within faith communities. As this book is a primer, it is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather, to highlight important information for helpers who do not have the time to wade through extensive information.
A key focus in this book is the shift in grief work from resolving loss to making meaning in grief. Types of losses (e.g., loss of a job, divorce, death, ambiguous loss) and types of grief are explained. Interventions for helpers are presented as well as ways in which helpers can care for themselves. Dr. Annette Lane has worked in clinical settings where death was a constant presence, such as working as a nurse in a Cambodian refugee camp in the 1980s and on an oncology unit. Marlette Reed has worked in palliative care/bereavement for almost two decades. Thus, in this resource, theory is integrated with real life experience.
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
CHAPTER 2: Kinds of Loss
CHAPTER 3: Types of Grief
CHAPTER 4: Important Constructs in Loss and Grief
CHAPTER 5: Responding Effectively to Loss and Grief: Practical Strategies
CHAPTER 6: The Soul of the Helper
Marlette Reed, BEd, MA is a community chaplain and sessional instructor at a number of post-secondary institutions in Calgary, Canada. She also speaks on the issues germane to older adults in a variety of settings – churches, nursing homes, and conferences locally, nationally and internationally. After enjoying the challenges as a junior high teacher for 18 years, she went on to become a palliative care chaplain providing end-of-life care for almost a decade. In addition she has been a pastor providing pastoral care for those facing life issues and providing guidance for those effected by transitions in later life.
Annette Lane, RN, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Nursing and Health Studies at Athabasca University. Her areas of expertise include older adults with mental illness and their families. She speaks locally, nationally and internationally about issues pertaining to older adults. Her life experiences have taken her from her years as a nurse in a Cambodian refugee camp to providing local crisis counseling and to supervising a mental health unit at a Calgary hospital.