Helping Grieving People - When Tears Are Not Enough: A Handbook for Care Providers

by J. Shep Jeffreys

Book Overview

Helping Grieving People is a training manual for care providers who will provide support and counseling to those grieving death, illness, and other losses. The author addresses grief as it affects a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415946034
• ISBN13: 9780415946032
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Profound and moving advice for support workers

J. Shep Jeffreys writes from the depths of his personal experience of losing a child, but he also writes from the expertise of having worked as a psychotherapist with families who facing what he and his family have lived with. Be prepared for what he calls "Cowbells" i.e. to re-experience your own losses as you read this book. Be prepared for a wake up call to rise the highest standards of sensitivity and integrity in your work with people who are bereaved or who are facing death.

A Bible for Grief/ Yours and Theirs!

This book could easily be called a bible given the depth, breadth and soulfulness of its content. Dr. Jeffreys speaks of the need for the care provider to communicate from the head, hand and heart, and he does just that in this book. It is rare to find a text so full of relevant information, well organized, well presented, and at the same time nurturing the heart of the reader. This makes for an amazing experience. The care provider leaves this book with heightened empathy, with increased love of self and of fellow man, what a unique gift! I have been in practice over 25 years as a psychologist with a specialty in grief, loss, and trauma. I trained with the senior staff of Elizabeth Kubler Ross, MD and I find Dr. Jeffrey's book to be the most comprehensive writing I have ever encountered on this topic. I highly recommend it for everyone, the professional, the friend or family member and each individual, for we are all grieving people at some time , arn't we?

Most Comprehensive Book On Grieving On The Market Today.

This book is a gift to clinicians and lay people alike. As a counselor working with grieving families for fourteen years, it immediately gave me fresh insight and hands-on tools for working with the complexities of those who are grieving. Each situation for a respective client is unique. This book helped me to think outside the box, and to bring even greater depth to the healing process. I also believe this book would be directly helpful to those who are personally grieving. It addresses one of the questions that my clients most often bring to sessions: "Is what I am experiencing normal?" This book is laid out in a highly readable and organized fashion. I have a full library of books on the subject, and this is the best one I have seen thus far.

5 stars--superior resource--a "must have"

Dr. Jeffreys has written a highly readable, comprehensive book on grief. Not only does he cover grief from an academic viewpoint, he teaches us, the readers, how to "celebrate the dignity and authority of the grieving person" as an "exquisite witness." Helping Grieving People: When tears are not enough helps us to understand that all change contains loss and grief. This book contains personal stories and practical, easy to follow directions for coping with grief and/or helping another. Jeffreys teaches us how to integrate thinking, feeling, and doing. He makes distinctions between the usual (or expected grief process) and complicated grief. He includes exercises and case studies to clarify the material. The book is appropriate for grief counselors and lay people alike. Highly recommended.