Guidebook On Helping Persons With Mental Retardation Mourn

by Kauffman, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780895033000
• ISBN10: 0895033003
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-10
• Publisher: Baywood Pub Co

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Loss is At the Heart of Life: A General Introduction to Grief and the Practice of Helping Persons Who are Mourning	1	(14)
The Person Who Gives Grief Support	1	(5)
Knowledge of the Grief of Others	1	(1)
The Caregivers Awareness of His or Her Own Mortality	2	(2)
The Very Psychological Development of the Self is a Process of Mourning Losses	4	(2)
Supporting the Mourning Process of Others	6	(9)
Recognizing Grief and Facilitating the Mourning Process	6	(3)
Recognizing Grief is the Basic Supportive Response to Grief	9	(1)
Grief is a Disturbance	10	(2)
Recognize the Diverse Kinds of Loss Experience that Occur in the Lives of Persons with Mental Retardation	12	(3)
Guidelines for Supporting and Facilitating the Mourning Process	15	(26)
The Aim of the Supportive Environment is to Facilitate the Mourning Process	15	(1)
When a Death Happens: General Guidelines	16	(1)
Does a Person with Mental Retardation Understand Death?	17	(1)
Breaking the News of a Death	18	(2)
Begin with an Assessment	20	(4)
Acceptance, Affirmation, and Validation of Grief	24	(1)
Symbolization	24	(2)
Facilitate Active and Maximum Participation in Social Experience of the Loss and Facilitate Activities for the Person to Experience the Loss	26	(2)
Support the Adaptation Needs of the Grieving Person	28	(1)
Preparation for the Death of a Primary Family Caregiver	29	(5)
Teachable Moments	34	(1)
Anniversaries and Holiday: Personal Memorial Days	34	(1)
Lois	35	(1)
The Collaborative Relationship between Grief Counselor/Therapist and Agency or Family	36	(2)
Grief Support Interventions for a Residence	38	(3)
What to Do When a Peer is Dying	38	(1)
Intense Grief Disrupts a Residence	39	(2)
The Language of Grief in Persons with Mental Retardation	41	(12)
Introduction to the Behavioral Language of Grief	41	(12)
Nicholas	43	(2)
Doris	45	(2)
Jamie	47	(3)
Perry	50	(3)
Psychological Concerns and Complications	53	(36)
Introduction to Psychological Concerns and Complications	53	(1)
Compulsivity, Perseveration, and Ritualization: Preventing Change	54	(3)
Harold	56	(1)
Dependence/Attachment	57	(4)
Chad	58	(3)
Ambivalence	61	(3)
Hank	62	(2)
Aggression, Anger, Hatred, Revenge, Indifference, Paranoia, etc.: Death as an Accusation	64	(6)
Betty	64	(1)
Caroline	65	(2)
Sarah	67	(1)
Jimmy	68	(2)
Somatization	70	(8)
Milo	71	(7)
Self-Loathing, Self-Directed Anger, Guilt, Shame, and Other Attacks of the Self	78	(6)
Mark	79	(2)
Phillip	81	(1)
Manny	82	(1)
Jason	83	(1)
Chronic Low-Level Anxiety as Narcissistic Grief	84	(3)
Donna	85	(2)
Thoughts on the Relation of Complications in the Grief of Persons with Mental Retardation to Psychodynamics of Grief in all Persons	87	(2)
Program Development: The Creation of a Grief Supportive Community • Guidelines for Agencies	89	(28)
Introduction: Preparation for Responding to Losses	89	(1)
Agency Loss Team	90	(3)
Agency Self-Assessment of Loss Experiences	93	(2)
Client Loss Assessment	95	(2)
Supporting Staff as a Way of Cultivating an Agency Climate of Grief Support	97	(1)
Staff Turnover	98	(5)
The Beginning Phase of the Helping Relationship	99	(1)
The Middle Phase of the Helping Relationship	100	(1)
The Termination Phase of the Helping Relationship	101	(2)
Staff Training Programs	103	(6)
Placement: Crisis and Process	109	(3)
The Crisis of Placement	109	(1)
Meg	110	(1)
The Placement Process, as a Policy of Residential Agencies	110	(2)
Aging and Illness	112	(2)
Client Education	114	(1)
Families	114	(3)
Experience in a Grief Group	117	(4)
References Not Cited in Text on Mourning and Mental Retardation	121	(4)
Index	125	(4)
About the Author	129