Helps caregivers find ways to increase their effectiveness by understanding what their care receivers are experiencing, by finding creative ways to assist them in processing what is happening, and by working with them to discern responses to loss.
Reading this book, caregivers will find ways to increase their effectiveness by understanding more fully what their care receivers are experiencing, by finding creative ways to assist them in processing what is happening, and by working with them to discern responses to loss that are emotionally healthy, intellectually coherent, spiritually genuine, culturally sensitive, relationally authentic, and personally fulfilling.
Preface
CHAPTER 1
Possibilities for Meaning: Attachments
CHAPTER 2
Loss as a Break in an Attachment
CHAPTER 3
Responding to a Break
CHAPTER 4
Responding Before the Break Has Taken Place
CHAPTER 5
Responding After the Break Has Taken Place
CHAPTER 6
Responding in a Personal Way
CHAPTER 7
Being Transformed through Responses
CHAPTER 8
Resources for Transformation: Attachments
POSTSCRIPT
A Personal Story
Index