Complicated Losses, Difficult Deaths : A Practical Guide for Ministering to Grievers

by Karaban, Roslyn A., Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9780893904760
• ISBN10: 0893904767
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Resource Pubns

Summary

Advanced training for volunteer grief ministers and pastoral-care professionals.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: What Is Complicated Grief?	1	(1)
Uncomplicated Grief	1	(5)
Complicated Grief	6	(1)
Complicated Losses, Difficult Deaths	6	(5)
Study Questions and Practicum	11	(2)
Ambiguous Losses	13	(20)
Alzheimer's Disease	16	(9)
Divorce	25	(5)
Study Questions and Practicums	30	(3)
Disenfranchised Losses	33	(22)
Suicide	35	(8)
AIDS	43	(7)
Abortion	50	(3)
Study Questions and Practicums	53	(2)
Sudden, Unanticipated Losses	55	(18)
Sudden Death: Accident	58	(7)
Sudden Death: Homicide	65	(3)
Rape	68	(3)
Study Questions and Practicums	71	(2)
Children and Death	73	(16)
Parental Loss of a Child	73	(7)
Death of a Sibling	80	(5)
Loss of a Parent	85	(2)
Study Questions and Practicums	87	(2)
Lingering Losses	89	(14)
Complicated Death from Cancer	90	(5)
Mental Illness	95	(2)
Multiple Sclerosis	97	(3)
Study Questions and Practicums	100	(3)
Caring for Grief Ministers	103	(16)
Practicums	110	(1)
Appendix
Skills	111	(7)
Empathy
Summary
Focusing
Prompts
Probes
Information Questions
Information Sharing
Self-Disclosure
Advanced Empathy
Immediacy
Drawing Grief	118	(1)
Endnotes	119	(6)
Bibiography	125